Editing 1876 in science (section)

==Technology==
* February 14 – [[Scottish American]] inventor [[Alexander Graham Bell]] and American electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray]] each file a [[patent]] for the [[telephone]], initiating the [[Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy]].
* March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.<ref>[[United States]] patent #174,466.</ref>
* March 10 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful bi-directional telephone call, saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you".
* April – [[Joseph Zentmayer]] makes his Centennial [[microscope]] in the United States.
* April 15 – Russian-born electrical engineer [[Pavel Yablochkov]] first publicly demonstrates the '[[Yablochkov candle]]', a form of [[arc lamp]], in London.<ref>{{cite web|first=Nathan|last=Brewer|title=Engineering Hall of Fame: Pavel Nikolayevich Yablochkov|url=https://insight.ieeeusa.org/articles/engineering-hall-of-fame-pavel-nikolayevich-yablochkov/|date=2012-03-01|accessdate=2024-07-27|work=IEEE USA InSight}}</ref>
* May 17 – [[Nicolaus Otto]] files his patent for the [[four-stroke engine]] using the [[Otto cycle]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Stephen|last=van Dulken|title=Inventing the 19th Century|location=London|publisher=[[British Library]]|year=2001|isbn=0-7123-0881-4|pages=104–5}}</ref>
* August 8 – [[Thomas Edison]] is granted a United States patent for his [[mimeograph]].
* [[Emile Berliner]] invents an improved form of [[microphone]] (the carbon-button type) which will be adopted for  [[Alexander Graham Bell]]'s telephone.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Birth of the Microphone: How Sound Became Signal|language=en-us|magazine=Wired|url=https://www.wired.com/2011/01/birth-of-the-microphone/|access-date=2023-09-19|issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Early History of the Microphone|url=https://digilab.libs.uga.edu/scl/exhibits/show/steel_vintage_mics/mic_early_history|work=UGA Special Collections Library Online Exhibitions|access-date=2023-09-19}}</ref>
* [[Francis Edgar Stanley]] of [[Newton, Massachusetts]], patents an [[Atomizer nozzle|atomizing]] paint distributor, a form of [[airbrush]].<ref>United States patent #182,389.</ref>
* The Seth Thomas Clock Company is awarded a United States patent for an adjustable wind-up alarm clock.
* [[Thomas Hawksley]] first uses [[pressure grouting]] to control water leakage under an embankment dam at [[Tunstall Reservoir]] in [[Weardale]], County Durham, England.<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12691|title=Hawksley, Thomas|year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/12691 |accessdate=2011-08-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=R. W.|last=Rennison|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bv2BrOMo8cIC&pg=PA81|title=Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England|page=81|isbn=9780727725189|year=1996}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=A. Clive|last=Houlsby|title=Construction and Design of Cement Grouting; A Guide to Grouting in Rock Foundations|publisher=Wiley|year=1990|isbn=0-471-51629-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|authorlink=Rudolph Glossop|first=Rudolph|last=Glossop|title=The Invention and Development of Injection processes Part II: 1850-1960|publisher=British Geotechnical Association|journal=Géotechnique|volume=11|issue=4|year=1961|pages=255–279|doi=10.1680/geot.1961.11.4.255}}</ref>
* [[Melville Reuben Bissell]] files a United States patent for an improved [[carpet sweeper]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Baxter|first=Albert|year=1891|title=History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan|publisher=Munsell}}</ref>