Editing 1906 in science (section)

==Technology==
* January – [[Lee De Forest]] files a patent for the [[Audion tube|Audion vacuum tube]], which helps usher in the age of electronics.<ref>{{cite book<!--Citation Bot deny -->|last=Dyson|first=George|authorlink=George Dyson (science historian)|year=2012|title=Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe|url=https://archive.org/details/turingscathedral0000dyso|url-access=registration|publisher=Pantheon|isbn=978-0-375-42277-5}}</ref>
* February 10 – Launch of British [[battleship]] {{HMS|Dreadnought|1906|6}}.
* March 18 –  At [[Montesson]] in France, [[Romanians|Romanian]] inventor [[Traian Vuia]] becomes the first person to achieve an unassisted takeoff in a heavier-than-air powered [[monoplane]], but it is incapable of sustained flight.
* October 18 – German inventor [[Arthur Korn]] demonstrates the transmission of a photograph electronically over a distance of 1800&nbsp;km<ref>{{cite web|title=17.10.1906: First Photoelectric Fax Transmission|url=http://www.todayinhistory.de/index.php?what=thmanu&manu_id=1617&tag=17&monat=10&year=2009&dayisset=1&lang=en|publisher=[[Deutsche Welle]]|date=2012-01-04}}</ref> using his ''Bildetelegraph'' or [[Wirephoto|phototelautograph]] system.
* December 24 – [[Reginald Fessenden]] makes the first radio broadcast, including a musical recording, a violin solo, and readings, from [[Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, Massachusetts|Brant Rock, Massachusetts]].
* The first practicable [[gyrocompass]] is invented by [[Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe]] in Germany.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Anschutz Gyro-Compass and Gyroscope Engineering|pages=7–24|author=Elliott Laboratories|publisher=Watchmaker Publishing|year=2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJ3WCpegQxwC|isbn=9781929148127}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|pages=34–37|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DN-9m2jSo8YC&pg=PA37|title=How Experiments End|isbn=978-0-226-27915-2|last=Galison|first=Peter|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1987|accessdate=2012-02-18}}</ref>