The California Institute of Technology, known as Caltech, is a private research university in Pasadena, California. It began as a small vocational school called Throop University and grew into a major scientific institution after the astronomer George Ellery Hale and the physicists Arthur Noyes and Robert Millikan helped to turn it into a leading research centre. Caltech is deliberately small but has produced a great number of Nobel laureates. It manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA, which builds and operates robotic space missions, and it is a key partner in the LIGO detection of gravitational waves. Its work has been particularly influential in physics, astronomy, geology and engineering.
Before and after
- 14 October 1890Birth of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 22 November 1890Birth of Charles de Gaulle
- 29 December 1890Wounded Knee Massacre
- from 29 December 1890 to 15 January 1891Ghost Dance War
- 1891Founding of California Institute of Technology
- 1891Construction of University of California, Santa Barbara
- 1891Founding of Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- 1891Founding of Vatican Observatory
- 1891Discovery of Gundestrup cauldron
More in Society, economy & sport
- 17 February 1863Founding of International Committee of the Red Cross
- 26 October 1863The Football Association is founded in London
- 17 May 1865Founding of International Telecommunication Union
- 19 September 1893New Zealand becomes the first country where women vote
- 30 June 1908Tunguska event
- 23 December 1913Founding of Federal Reserve System
The era
This moment belongs to the Industrial era (1760 CE to 1914 CE), steam, factories and revolutions. You can also browse everything in the 19th century.