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The year 1855 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

PALEONTOLOGY

The first Archaeopteryx fossil found in Bavaria , Germany

PHYSICS

James Clerk Maxwell unifies Electricity and Magnetism into a single theory, Classical Electromagnetism , thereby showing that Light is an electromagnetic Wave

AWARDS

BIRTHS

January 5 - King Camp Gillette (d. 1932 ), Inventor .

January 21 - John Moses Browning (d. 1926 ), inventor

January 28 - William Seward Burroughs (d. 1898 ), inventor of the Calculator

March 13 - Percival Lowell (d. 1916 ), Astronomer .

November 5 - Léon Teisserenc De Bort (d. 1913 ), Meteorologist .

DEATHS

February 23 - Carl Friedrich Gauss (b. 1777 ), Mathematician .

April 13 - Henry De La Beche (b. 1796 ), Geologist .

July 8 - William Edward Parry (b. 1790 ), Arctic Explorer .