1902 In Science

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1901 In Science

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1903 In Science

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The year 1902 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

AERONAUTICS

Lyman Gilmore reportedly becomes the first person to fly a powered Airplane (a Steam -powered glider).

ARCHAEOLOGY

CHEMISTRY

PHOTOGRAPHY

Arthur Korn devises practical Phototelegraphy technology (reduction of photographic images to data bits which can transmitted by wire to other locations)

PHYSICS

James Jeans finds the length scale required for gravitational perturbations to grow in a static nearly homogeneous medium

Philipp Lenard observes that maximum Photoelectron energies are independent of illuminating intensity but depend on frequency

Theodor Svedberg suggests that fluctuations in molecular bombardment cause the Brownian Motion

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