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The year 1860 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Biology

• 30 June - Debate about evolution at the Oxford University Museum.

Technology

• 9 April - Earliest known decipherable sound recording of the human voice, a phonautogram, produced by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. Playback was impossible at the time.^[1]

Awards

• Copley Medal: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen.
• Wollaston Medal for geology: Searles Valentine Wood.

Births

• January 1 - George Washington Carver (d. 1943), American botanist.
• February 29 - Herman Hollerith (d. 1929), statistician, punch card inventor.

Deaths

• January 27 - János Bolyai (b. 1802), mathematician.
• January 27 - Thomas Brisbane (b. 1773), astronomer.
• June 29 - Thomas Addison (b. 1793), physician and scientist.
• July 1 - Charles Goodyear (b. 1800), inventor of the vulcanization process.

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