1907
ID: 1166
Hermann Muthesius publishes 'The English House,' influencing modern architecture through German design theory
ID: 1166
1907
ID: 1167
Indiana passes first state sterilization law; Dr. Harry Clay Sharp advocates: 'We make choice of the best rams for our sheep... how careful then should we be in begetting of children!'
ID: 1167
1907
ID: 1168
Samuel Bronfman joins family hotel business; Lewis Rosenstiel begins work at Susquemac Distilling
ID: 1168
1907
ID: 1169
Methodist Federation for Social Action organized by 'Socialist, Marxist clergymen'
ID: 1169
1907
ID: 1170
Hermann Minkowski reformulates Einstein's relativity using four-dimensional spacetime geometry - 'Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows' - Mathematical geometry becomes fundamental to physics
ID: 1170
1907
ID: 1171
Leo Baekeland begins experiments leading to Bakelite development
ID: 1171
1907
ID: 1172
1.25 million typhoid cases in United States (1907-1911)
ID: 1172
1907
ID: 2361
Limited Partnership Act (England) - finally allows limited partnerships after resistance from unlimited liability tradition
ID: 2361
1907
ID: 4223
U.S. Census Bureau cancels Hollerith contract due to high costs, begins developing own equipment with James Powers
ID: 4223
1907
ID: 4605
L.E.J. Brouwer founds intuitionism - mathematics as mental construction, rejects law of excluded middle
ID: 4605
1907
ID: 4610
Poincaré and Koebe prove uniformization theorem - classification of Riemann surfaces
ID: 4610
1907
ID: 5072
Aurel Stein acquires Dunhuang manuscripts - negotiates with Wang Yuanlu, takes thousands of texts to British Museum including Manichaean hymns
ID: 5072
1907
ID: 1165
September 8, 1907
Pope Pius X condemns Modernism in encyclical 'Pascendi Dominici Gregis' - 'Modernism is the synthesis of all heresies'
ID: 1165