Editing 1882 in science (section)

==Technology==
* January 12 – [[Holborn Viaduct power station]] in the City of London, the world's first coal-fired public electricity generating station, begins operation.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bfVKt7UzjnEC&pg=PA89|journal=[[New Scientist]]|location=London|title=The electricity of Holborn|first=Jack|last=Harris|date=1982-01-14}}</ref>
* By March – [[Étienne-Jules Marey]] invents a [[chronophotographic gun]] capable of photographing 12 consecutive frames per second on the same plate.
* April 29 – [[Werner von Siemens]] demonstrates his ''[[Electromote]]'', the first form of [[trolleybus]], in [[Berlin]].
* June 6 – [[Henry W. Seeley]] patents the electric [[clothes iron]] in the [[United States]].<ref>Patent no. 259,054. {{cite web|title=Household Amenities and Appliances: Timeline of Their Arrival|url=http://www.partselect.ca/resources/Appliances-Timeline-Of-Their-Arrival.aspx|publisher=PartSelect|accessdate=2012-01-25}}</ref>
* September 4 – [[Thomas Edison]] starts the United States' first commercial electrical power plant, lighting one square mile of [[lower Manhattan]].
* English mechanical engineer [[James Atkinson (inventor)|James Atkinson]] invents his "[[Atkinson cycle#Atkinson "Differential Engine"|Differential Engine]]".
* American electrical engineer [[Schuyler Wheeler]] produces an electric fan.
* [[Alfred P. Southwick]] publishes his proposals for use of the [[electric chair]] as an execution method in the United States.
* [[Nikola Tesla]] claims this is when he conceives the [[rotating magnetic field]] principle, which he later uses to invent his [[induction motor]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930|publisher=JHU Press|location=Baltimore, MD|page=117|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g07Q9M4agp4C&pg=PA117|isbn=978-0-8018-4614-4|year=1993|access-date=2015-12-13|archive-date=2024-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323123125/https://books.google.com/books?id=g07Q9M4agp4C&pg=PA117#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live|first=Thomas Parke|last=Hughes}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AsFdUxOwu8C&pg=PA204|editor-first=Robert|editor-last=Bud|title=Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia|page=204|access-date=2013-03-18|isbn=978-0-8153-1561-2|year=1998|publisher=Taylor & Francis|archive-date=2024-03-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323123051/https://books.google.com/books?id=1AsFdUxOwu8C&pg=PA204#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>