Editing 1868 in science (section)

==Technology==
* June 23 – The [[Sholes and Glidden typewriter]] is [[patent]]ed in the United States.<ref>{{US patent|79265|US79265}}.</ref>
* October 28 – [[Americans|American]] inventor [[Thomas Edison]] applies for his first patent, for a form of electronic [[voting machine]].
* Ernest and Auguste Bollée first patent the [[Éolienne Bollée]] [[wind turbine]] in France.<ref>No 79985.</ref>
* Scottish physicist [[James Clerk Maxwell]]'s paper on [[Centrifugal governor|governor]]s<ref>{{cite journal|last=Maxwell|first=James Clerk|title=On Governors|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society|location=London|volume=16|issue=100|year=1868|pages=270–283|doi=10.1098/rspl.1867.0055|jstor=112510}}</ref> is a landmark in the mathematics of [[feedback]] and in [[control theory]].
* [[Pendulum-and-hydrostat control]] for the [[Whitehead torpedo]] developed by [[Robert Whitehead (engineer)|Robert Whitehead]].