Editing 1885 in science (section)

==Chemistry==
* [[Carl Auer von Welsbach]] patents his first incandescent [[gas mantle]].
* [[Eugen Goldstein]] names the [[cathode ray]], later discovered to be composed of electrons, and the [[canal ray]], later discovered to be positive hydrogen ions that have been stripped of their electrons in a [[cathode-ray tube]]; these will later be named [[proton]]s.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Chemistry |work=Intensive General Chemistry|publisher=Columbia University Department of Chemistry Undergraduate Program|url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/chemistry/chem-c2507/navbar/chemhist.html |accessdate=2007-03-24}}</ref>