Editing 1860 in science (section)

==Technology==
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* April 9 – Earliest known decipherable [[sound recording]] of the human voice, a [[phonautogram]], produced by [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]]. Playback is impossible at this time.<ref name=NYT2008>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html|title=Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison|first=Jody|last=Rosen|date=March 27, 2008|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
* December 29 – Launch of [[HMS Warrior (1860)|HMS ''Warrior'']] by the [[Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company]], the first all-iron [[warship]], for the first time combining steam engines delivering high speed, [[rifling|rifled]] [[breech-loading gun]]s, iron frames and armoured cladding, and the [[propeller]], in the largest naval ship built to this date.<ref>{{cite book|title=Warrior: the First Modern Battleship|first=Walter|last=Brownlee|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1985|isbn=978-0-521-27579-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Walter|last=Brownlee|title=HMS Warrior|journal=[[Scientific American]]|volume=257|issue=6|year=1987|pages=130–136|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican1287-130|bibcode=1987SciAm.257f.130B}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The immortal Warrior, Britain's first and last battleship|last=Wells|first=John|year=1987|publisher=Kenneth Mason|location=Emsworth|isbn=978-0-85937-333-3}}</ref>
* [[Benjamin Tyler Henry]] [[patent]]s the [[Henry rifle]], a 16-shot [[.44 Henry|.44 caliber]] [[Rimfire ammunition|rimfire]] breech-loading [[lever action]] [[Magazine (firearms)#Tubular|tubular magazine]] model, predecessor of the [[Winchester rifle|Winchester]].<ref>Butler, David F. (1971). ''United States Firearms The First Century 1776-1875'' New York: Winchester Press. p.229.</ref>
* [[Edward Samuel Ritchie#Inventions and Innovations|Edward Samuel Ritchie]], considered to be the most innovative instrument maker in nineteenth-century America, receives a U.S. patent for the first successful and practicable liquid-filled marine [[compass]] suitable for general use.