1885
Transportation
Germany
Petrol automobile
Benz builds a three-wheeled vehicle around an internal combustion engine.
Why it mattered
Personal mechanised mobility, and the century of oil.
Industrial Age
1885
2 recorded milestones at this point in the record.
1885
Medicine
France
Rabies vaccine
Pasteur treated Joseph Meister with an attenuated virus and he lived.
Why it mattered
The first vaccine designed in a laboratory rather than found in nature.
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