Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/October 1

October 1:

 * 1671 – Birth of Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician (d. 1742)


 * 1768 – Death of Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)


 * 1800 – Birth of Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism (d. 1861)


 * 1811 - The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana


 * 1838 – Death of Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)


 * 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison


 * 1904 – Birth of Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)


 * 1910 – Birth of José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998)


 * 1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time