The year 1874 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Psychology
- Franz Brentano publishes Psychologie vom Empirischen Standpunkte (Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint)
Births
- January 22 – Leonard Eugene Dickson (died 1954), American mathematician
- February 2 – Ernest Shackleton (died 1922), Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer
- April 25 – Guglielmo Marconi (died 1937), Italian inventor
- September 12 – Redcliffe N. Salaman (died 1955), English botanist
- September 26 – Oakes Ames (died 1950), American botanist
- October 13 – Kiyotsugu Hirayama (died 1943), Japanese astronomer
- November 27 – Chaim Weizmann (died 1952), Russian-born chemist and first President of Israel
- November 29 – António Egas Moniz (died 1955), Portuguese neurologist, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- December 6 – Elizabeth Laird (died 1969), Canadian physicist
- December 28 – Arthur Schüller (died 1957), Austrian-born neuroradiologist
Deaths
- January 16 – Max Schultze (born 1825), German physiologist
- January 24 – Johann Philipp Reis (born 1834), German physicist and inventor
- February 17 – Adolphe Quetelet (born 1796), Belgian mathematician and astronomer
- February 19 – Carl Ernst Bock (born 1809), German physician and anatomist
- March 3 – Forbes Winslow (born 1810), English psychiatrist
- March 10 – Moritz von Jacobi (born 1801), German-born electrical engineer
- March 14 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler (born 1794), German astronomer
- March 28 – Peter Andreas Hansen (born 1795), Danish-born German astronomer
- April 13 – James Bogardus (born 1800), American inventor
- November 21 – Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet (born 1800), Scottish-born naturalist
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- Jones, Max (2003). The Last Great Quest. Oxford University Press. pp. 56–57. ISBN 0-19-280483-9.
- McGonigal, David (2009). Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent. London: Frances Lincoln. p. 289. ISBN 0-7112-2980-5.
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- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (2000). The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870–1940. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-05858-0.
- Cooke, Roger (1984). The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-96030-9.
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- Maxwell, James Clerk; Harman, P. M. (2002), The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, Volume 3; 1874-1879, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-25627-5, p. 148: "I have just finished a clay model of a fancy surface, showing the solid, liquid, and gaseous states, and the continuity of liquid and gaseous states." (letter to Thomas Andrews, November 1874).
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