The year 1888 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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  • The global atmospheric temperature returns to normal, five years after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa (Krakatau). The volcanic dust veil, that has created spectacular atmospheric effects, also acted as a solar-radiation filter, lowering global temperatures by as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius in the year after the eruption.

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Physiology and medicine

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  1. ^ Dreyer, J. L. E. (1888). "A New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, being the Catalogue of the late Sir John F.W. Herschel, Bart., revised, corrected, and enlarged" (PDF). Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. 49: 1–237. Bibcode:1888MmRAS..49....1D.
  2. ^ Maienschein, Jane (1989). One Hundred Years Exploring Life, 1888-1988: the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole. Boston: Jones & Bartlett. ISBN 978-0-86720-120-8.
  3. ^ Helferich, B. (1953). "Emil Fischer zum 100. Geburtstag". Angewandte Chemie. 65 (2): 45–52. doi:10.1002/ange.19530650202.
  4. ^ Bulmer, Michael (2003). Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 191–196. ISBN 978-0-8018-7403-1.
  5. ^ Texts: Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?; Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?; translation: Ewald, William B. (ed). (1996). From Kant to Hilbert: A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics. Oxford University Press. 787-832.
  6. ^ Kovalevskaya, S. (1889). "Sur le problème de le rotation d'un corps solide autour d'un point fixe". Acta Mathematica. 12: 177–232. doi:10.1007/bf02592182.
  7. ^ Cooke, Roger (1984). The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-387-96030-2.
  8. ^ Waldman, Thomas A. (2003). "Immunotherapy: past, present and future". Nature Medicine. 9 (3): 269–277. doi:10.1038/nm0303-269. PMID 12612576.
  9. ^ Waldeyer, W. (December 1888). "Ueber Karyokinese und ihre Beziehungen zu den Befruchtungsvorgängen". Archiv für Mikroskopische Anatomie (in German). 32 (1): 1–122. doi:10.1007/BF02956988. ISSN 0176-7364.
  10. ^ Cremer, T.; Cremer, C. (1988). "Centennial of Wilhelm Waldeyer's introduction of the term "chromosome" in 1888". Cytogenetics & Cell Genetics. 48 (2): 65–7. doi:10.1159/000132590. PMID 3058399.
  11. ^ Scheuerlein, H.; Henschke, F.; Köckerling, F. (2017). "Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz – A Great Forefather: His Contributions to Anatomy with Particular Attention to "His" Fascia". Frontiers in Surgery. 4: 74. doi:10.3389/fsurg.2017.00074. PMC 5723023. PMID 29255713.
  12. ^ "Adolf Eugen Fick (1852–1937)". Archived from the original on 2015-05-17. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
  13. ^ U.S. patent 375,962
  14. ^ U.S. patent 381,968
  15. ^ U.S. patent 382,790
  16. ^ Member's Circular Letter February 2008 Archived 2012-02-27 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ U.S. patent 388,850. Filed in March.
  18. ^ UK Patent No. 15630.
  19. ^ Collingridge, Jeremy M. R.; et al. (2007). "Ink Reservoir Writing Instruments 1905–20". Transactions of the Newcomen Society. 77 (1): 69–100. doi:10.1179/175035207X163361.
  20. ^ "Louis Le Prince". Local Heroes. BBC Education. 1999-11-28. Archived from the original on 1999-11-28. Retrieved 2011-08-14.
  21. ^ Howells, Richard (Summer 2006). "Louis Le Prince: the body of evidence". Screen. 47 (2). Oxford Journals: 179–200. doi:10.1093/screen/hjl015. ISSN 0036-9543.
  22. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 978-0-14-102715-9.
  23. ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.