Walter Wyman began service as Supervising Surgeon (renamed U.S. Surgeon General in 1902)
On Jun. 1, 1881, Walter Wyman began service as Supervising Surgeon (renamed U.S. Surgeon General in 1902). He…
On Jun. 1, 1881, Walter Wyman began service as Supervising Surgeon (renamed U.S. Surgeon General in 1902). He…
On May 18, 1891, Massachusetts-born businessman William Marsh Rice chartered the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement…
On May 15, 1891, the State College for Colored Students (Delaware State University) was established by the Delaware…
In 1891, Throop University (Caltech) was founded in 1891 by Pasadena philanthropist Amos Throop, and under the guidance…
In 1891, Louise Lulu Fleming became the first African American to attend The Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia.
On Dec. 24, 1890, the University of Central Oklahoma was founded by the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature as the…
On Mar. 28, 1890, Washington Agricultural College and School of Science (Washington State University) was established as a…
In 1890, The North Dakota State University was founded in Fargo as the North Dakota Agricultural College. Today…
In 1890, the Biological Laboratory, now known as Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) was founded by the Brooklyn…
In 1890, J.E. Hanger Company enterprise expanded with offices in St. Louis, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. James…
On Sept. 30, 1889, the Saint Marys Hospital opened with 27 beds in Rochester. William Worrall Mayo and…
On May 7, 1889, the Johns Hopkins medical hospital in Baltimore opened.
On Mar. 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte, MD became the first American Indian woman in the U.S….
On Feb. 28, 1889, the New Mexico State University (NMSU), located in Las Cruces, was founded as a…
In 1891, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first master of science degree was awarded to Charles N….
In 1889, the vedalia beetle (aka lady bug) was introduced from Australia to California to control cottonycushion scale,…
In 1889, Johns Hopkins hospital construction completed. At the time it was believed to be the largest medical…
In 1889, the Medical College of Virginia Alumni Association was organized.
On Nov. 14, 1888, the Pasteur Institute was established as a rabies treatment center as well as an…
On Mar. 8, 1888, The Utah Agricultural College (UAC), now known as Utah State University, was founded as…
In 1888, the New Mexico State University, located in Las Cruces, was founded as a land-grant agricultural college…
In 1888, Johnson ᅠ& ᅠJohnson published “Modern Methods of Antiseptic Wound Treatment.” The book quickly became one the…
In 1888, Johnson ᅠ& ᅠJohnson pioneered the first commercial first aid kits. The initial kits were designed to…
In 1888, the Bayer Company launched its first pharmaceutical product, antipyretic Phenacetin.
In 1888, Dutch microbiologist Martinus Willem Beijerinck observes Rhizobium leguminosarum nodulating peas.
In 1888, the diphtheria toxin was developed by Emile Roux at the Pasteur Institute. Passive serum therapies were…
In 1888, the J.E. Hanger Company’s headquarters was relocated to Washington, D.C. James Edward Hanger was the first…
On Dec. 13, 1887, William McLaren Bristol and his friend, John Ripley Myers, invested $5,000 into the Clinton…
On Mar. 3, 1887, the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (North Carolina State University) was…
In 1870, Charles Edwin Bessey became professor of botany at the Iowa Agricultural College (ISU) and left in…