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The year 1867 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.
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Ecology
- Gorse naturalised in New Zealand, soon becomes worst invasive weed.
Economics
- Publication of the first volume of Das Kapital by Karl Marx.
Geology
- At historic Fountain Point, Michigan, artesian water spring gushes continuously till present day.
Medicine
- March 16 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
- July 17 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established as the first dental school in the United States.
- Yellow fever kills 3093 in New Orleans.
Technology
- January 1 - The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky, becoming the longest suspension bridge in the world.
- February 17 - The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
- July 2 - First elevated railroad in the United States begins service in New York.
- Pierre Michaux invents the front wheel-driven velocipede, the first mass-produced bicycle.
Awards
Births
- November 7 - Marie Curie (d. 1934), physicist.
Deaths
- August 25 - Michael Faraday (b. 1791), chemist and physicist.
