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==Physics== * February 13 – [[Thomas Edison]] observes the [[Edison effect]]. * The first demonstration of the direct [[Piezoelectricity|piezoelectric]] effect is made by the brothers [[Pierre Curie]] and [[Jacques Curie]].<ref>Curie, Jacques; Pierre (1880) "Développement par compression de l’électricité polaire dans les cristaux hémièdres à faces inclinées" [Development, via compression, of electric polarization in hemihedral crystals with inclined faces], ''Bulletin de la Société minérologique de France'' '''3''': 90-93. Reprinted in: Curie, Jacques; Pierre (1880) "[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k30485/f296.image Développement, par pression, de l’électricité polaire dans les cristaux hémièdres à faces inclinées]", ''[[Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences]]'' '''91''': 294-295. See also: Curie, Jacques; Pierre (1880) "[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k30485/f385.image Sur l’électricité polaire dans les cristaux hémièdres à faces inclinées]" [On electric polarization in hemihedral crystals with inclined faces], ''Comptes rendus'' '''91''': 383-386.</ref> * [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] formulates the Law of Corresponding States.
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