Nikola Tesla tried to explain how the phenomenon of ball lightning works.
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The first cloned animal from an adult animal cell was announced.
The BBC broadcast the world's first science fiction television program, an adaptation of the play R.U.R.
Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time, by American surgeon Crawford Long, in Athens, Georgia.
Two scientists from the University of California Radiation Laboratory discovered carbon-14, a new isotope of carbon.
The first documented blood transfusion took place using sheep blood in a teenage boy.
