Events from 1908

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1908

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1908 ID: 389
Russell publishes 'Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types', introducing type theory to avoid paradoxes
ID: 389
1908 ID: 1173
Daily Telegraph Affair: Wilhelm II's controversial interview damages Germany's international relations
ID: 1173
1908 ID: 1174
Wilhelm Schallmayer wins Krupp Prize for essay on heredity and selection, promoting social Darwinist policies in Prussia
ID: 1174
1908 ID: 1175
Henry Holt: 'There was too much enterprise... Excessive overproduction of brains is the root cause of the overproduction of everything else.'
ID: 1175
1908 ID: 1176
Ernst Zermelo develops axiomatic set theory to resolve Russell's Paradox - Provides rigorous logical foundation for mathematical reasoning
ID: 1176
1908 ID: 1177
Fritz Haber develops the Haber process for synthesizing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen, revolutionizing fertilizer production
ID: 1177
1908 ID: 1178
First water chlorination in America
ID: 1178
1908 ID: 1179
Second foot-and-mouth epidemic from contaminated Japanese vaccine
ID: 1179
1908 ID: 1180
Dr. Lovett proves metallic poisons cause polio-like lesions
ID: 1180
1908 ID: 2362
Companies (Consolidation) Act - requires disclosure of financial statements, beginning of mandatory transparency
ID: 2362
Westminster
1908 ID: 4276
Vertical filing becomes standard in American business - filing cabinets replace bound ledgers and pigeonhole desks
ID: 4276

Books & Texts from 1908

📖 h-de-vere-stacpoole - the-blue-lagoon-a-romance
📖 jerome-k-jerome - the-cost-of-kindness
📖 h-g-wells - the-war-in-the-air
📖 l-m-montogmery - anne-of-green-gables
📖 oscar-wilde - the-duchess-of-padua
📖 oscar-wilde - essays-and-lectures
📖 kenneth-grahame - the-wind-in-the-willows
📖 john-murray-and-edmund-day-and-marion-mills-miller - the-round-up-a-romance-of-arizona-novelized-from-edmunds-days-melodrama
📖 g-k-chesterton - orthodoxy
📖 mary-roberts-rinehart - the-circular-staircase
📖 jerome-k-jerome - the-philosophers-joke
📖 l-frank-baum - dorothy-and-the-wizard-in-oz