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Louis Pasteur creates the rabies vaccine

Jun 6, 1885

He has been working on his vaccine since 1880, experimenting on animals when a nine-year-old boy, Joseph Meister, comes to him because he has been bitten by a rabid dog. Pasteur therefore decides to inject him with the first dose of vaccine in the world. It worked

invention of the escalator

Mar 15, 1892

This invention dates from the very end of the 19th century.
It was first installed in the Crystal Palace in 1898, but its patent was filed by the American Jesse W. Reno on March 15, 1892.
At first, it's a simple attraction: you take an escalator ride as you would a carousel ride.

X-rays

1895

X-rays were discovered by physicist W. Röntgen in 1895. This discovery earned him the first Nobel Prize in physics.
That's one of the first x-rays he made: it's his wife's hand.

Invention of cinema

Dec 28, 1895

On December 28, 1895 exactly, the Lumière brothers gave the first paid public screening in the history of cinema. With the very first film screened: the release of the Lumière factories in Lyon.

discovery of radium

Dec 21, 1898

Radium was discovered by Pierre and Marie Curie in 1898.
Marie Curie discovers radioactivity by studying the radiation of uranium salts.
Then, with her husband, they became interested in minerals containing uranium and discovered two new extremely radioactive elements: polonium and radium. For all their work, the couple will receive a Nobel Prize in Physics.