In 1904 a physicist debunked a discovery by slipping part of the apparatus into his pocket.
Robert Wood quietly removed the prism from Blondlot's set-up, and Blondlot went on 'seeing' N-rays. Hundreds of papers on them had already appeared.
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- 1903 · 1969 Bits of the Wright Flyer have been to the Moon and Mars.
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- 1903 · 1913 Just ten years after the Wright brothers' first flight, a plane with a toilet took off. Sikorsky's four-engined Ilya Muromets of 1913 also had a heated cabin, a bedroom and electric light.
- 1903 The Bolsheviks took their name from the 'majority' at the 1903 party congress — even though on the key dispute, who counted as a party member, Martov's supporters, the future Mensheviks, won the vote.