Tag: 1843

Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner , first woman to receive Nobel Prize for Peace

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First Woman presented the Nobel Peace Prize was in 1905 Continue reading →

First Agricultural Research Station Built … and still around

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John Bennet Lawes, an English Agronomist and founder of the artificial fertilizer industry, built the first agricultural research station on his Estate at Rothamsted, England. Continue reading →

Alexander Bain

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Alexander Bain (11 June 1818 – 18 September 1903) was a Scottish philosopher and educationalist in the British school of empiricism and a prominent and innovative figure in the fields of psychology, linguistics, logic, moral philosophy and education reform. Continue reading →

First Facsimile Machine Invented in 1800’s

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Alexander Bain, Scottish psychologist invented the facsimile process in 1843 and received a patent for "improvements in producing and regulating electric currents and improvements in timepieces and in electric printing and signal telegraphs." Continue reading →

Austen Henry Layard

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Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (/lɛərd/; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. Continue reading →

Archeological Discoveries in Mesopotamia

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Archeologists Paul-Emile Botta and Austen Henry Layard led two excavations in Mesopotamia, Iraq to find the ancient city of Nineveh. Continue reading →

First Iron-Framed Library Built in Paris

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Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve was the first iron-frame building built in Paris, France between 1843 to 1850 by architect Henri Labrouste. Continue reading →