It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883.

Both companies became part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil in 1874.

Sir John Tenniel is also the author of one of the mosaics, Leonardo da Vinci, in the South Court in the Victoria and Albert Museum ; while his highly stippled watercolour drawings appeared from time to time in the exhibitions of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, of which he had been elected a member in 1874.

* 1961 – John F. O ' Ryan, American major general ( b. 1874 )

* 1874 – John McPhee, Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania ( d. 1952 )

* John Brown ( Yorkshire cricketer ) ( 1874 – 1950 ), English cricketer

* John Carter Brown ( 1797 – 1874 ), book collector

* John Randall Walker ( 1874 – 1942 ), U. S. Representative from Georgia

* John Walker ( footballer ) ( 1874 – 1940 ), Scottish international footballer

Hypnos and Thanatos, Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, an 1874 painting by John William Waterhouse

* 1789 – John Ruggles, American politician ( d. 1874 )

The other major contributors were John Rogers Herbert, finishing in 1864 but having had some commissions cancelled, Charles West Cope who worked until 1869, Edward Matthew Ward until 1874, Edward Armitage, George Frederic Watts, John Callcott Horsley, John Tenniel and Daniel Maclise.

John Camden Hotten lists the term in the fifth edition of his Slang Dictionary in 1874 as a " term very common among the lower orders of London, meaning to die from disease or accident.

Thomas John Watson, Sr. ( February 17, 1874 – June 19, 1956 ) was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines ( IBM ), who oversaw that company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956.

* May 11 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American philanthropist ( b. 1874 )

* December 25 – John Phillips, British geologist ( d. 1874 )

* John Abbott ( Newfoundland politician ) ( 1874 – 1930 ), Newfoundland politician

* John Sinker ( 1874 – 1936 ), MA, an eminent Anglican priest and author in the 20th century

* John George MacCarthy, Member of Parliament for Mallow, 1874 – 1880

Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, by John William Waterhouse, 1874.

* Biddy Anderson ( John Henry Anderson, 1874 – 1926 ), South African cricketer who played a single Test Match

* John Henry Anderson ( 1814 – 1874 ), Scottish conjurer

It was not until 1874 where the firm of Amédée Bollée and sons made a reasonably well-tuned carillon for the John the Baptist Cathedral in Perpignan, France.

Under the influence of this doctrine, and of Phenomenology, the Hungarian-born German sociologist Karl Mannheim ( 1893 – 1947 ) gave impetus to the growth of the sociology of knowledge with his Ideologie und Utopie ( 1929, translated and extended in 1936 as Ideology and Utopia ), although the term had been introduced five years earlier by the co-founder of the movement, the German philosopher, phenomenologist and social theorist Max Scheler ( 1874 – 1928 ), in Versuche zu einer Soziologie des Wissens ( 1924, Attempts at a Sociology of Knowledge ).

Among Høffding's other writings, practically all of which have been translated into German, are: Den engelske Filosofi i vor Tid ( 1874 ); Etik ( 1876 ); Psychologi i Omrids paa Grundlag af Erfaring ( ed.

* Pariser Zustände während der Revolutionszeit ( Jena, 1874 — 1876 ), translated into French by P. Viollet ( Paris, 1880 — 1885 )

Má vlast ( traditionally translated as " My Country ", though more strictly meaning " homeland ") is a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.

The translation of the Old Testament, commissioned by the Vénérable Compagnie des Pasteurs de Genève, was published in two volumes in 1871 ( Meusel has 1874 as the publication date ), followed by the New Testament, translated as a private venture, in 1880.

The work by which Gegenbaur is best known is his Grundriss der vergleichenden Anatomie ( Leipzig, 1874 ; 2nd edition, 1878 ), translated into English by W. F. Jeffrey Bell ( as Elements of Comparative Anatomy, 1878 ), with additions by E. Ray Lankester.

In Europe, he translated Balzac's Contes drôlatiques, which was published in 1874 by Chatto and Windus ; but it was considered too racy and was withdrawn, only to be reissued in 1903.

Scene from The Happy Land, showing the scandalous impersonation of William Ewart Gladstone | Gladstone, Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke | Lowe, and Acton Smee Ayrton | AyrtonSeveral of W. S. Gilbert's early plays were staged here, including Randall's Thumb, Creatures of Impulse ( with music by Alberto Randegger ), Great Expectations ( adapted from the Dickens novel ), and On Guard ( all in 1871 ); The Happy Land ( 1873, with Gilbert Abbott à Beckett ; Gilbert's most controversial play ); The Wedding March, translated from Un Chapeau de Paille d ' Italie by Eugène Marin Labiche ( 1873 ); The Blue-Legged Lady, translated from La Dame aux Jambes d ' Azur by Labiche and Marc-Michel ( 1874 ); and Broken Hearts ( 1875 ).

His score of books, several of which were translated into French and published in Paris, include French Pictures in English Chalk ( 1876 – 1878 ); The Roning Englishman in Turkey ( 1854 ); Men of the Second Empire ( 1872 ); Young Brown ( 1874 ); Sidelights on English Society ( 1881 ); Under the Lens: Social Photographs ( 1885 ); and Imprisoned in a Spanish Convent: An English Girl's Experiences ( 1886 ).

* La Retraite de Laguna ( published in 1872, originally in French ; translated into Portuguese by Taunay in 1874 )

Congreve translated several of Comte's works, and in 1874 published a large volume of essays, in which he advocated Comte's view that it was the duty of Great Britain to renounce her foreign possessions.

In 1874 he became professor of philosophy, and translated several works of Herbert Spencer and of Schopenhauer into French.

* Pandit Satyavrata Samashrami, Sanskrit research scholar and Professor, Calcutta University who first translated the Sama Veda into English in 1874.

* 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, English writer ( d. 1965 )

* 1874 – G. K. Chesterton, English novelist ( d. 1936 )

* 1874 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist ( d. 1939 )

Thomas Martin Lowry CBE FRS (; 26 October 1874 – 2 November 1936 ) was an English physical chemist.

First attested in English in 1874, the word pasta comes from Italian pasta, in turn from Latin pasta " dough, pastry cake ", itself the latinisation of the Greek παστά ( pasta ) " barley porridge ", in turn from παστός ( pastos ), " sprinkled with salt, salted ".

* 1874 – Gustav Holst, English composer ( d. 1934 )

* English translation of a letter of Theophan the Recluse to the husband of his sister of 12th of February 1874

** Sir Harry Oakes, American-born English gold mine owner ( murdered ) ( b. 1874 )

* October 29 – Emily Robin, English Madame ( b. 1874 )

* June 14 – G. K. Chesterton, English author ( b. 1874 )

* May 11 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer ( b. 1874 )

* May 25 – Gustav Holst, English composer ( The Planets ) ( b. 1874 )

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev ( first published in 1866 ), the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe ( first published in 1845 ), the Romanian Petre Ispirescu ( first published in 1874 ), the English Joseph Jacobs ( first published in 1890 ), and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales ( first published in 1890 ).

In 1874, Carte leased the Opera Comique, a small theatre off The Strand, where he presented a Brussels company in the British premiere of the operetta Giroflé-Giroflà by Charles Lecocq, followed by The Broken Branch, an English adaptation of Gaston Serpette's La branche cassée.

It was performed in New York under Bial at the Stadt Theatre on 21 November 1874, and then in English in London at the Alhambra Theatre on 18 December 1876, with the score heavily adapted by Hamilton Clarke.

* S. H. Hooke ( 1874 – 1968 ), English scholar of comparative religion

In 1874, The word jinricksha / jinrikisha " was published in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1887.

The first was the English Alpine Club ( founded in the winter of 1857 – 1858 ), followed in 1862 by the Austrian Alpine Club ( which in 1873 was fused, under the name of the German and Austrian Alpine Club, with the German Alpine Club, founded in 1869 ), in 1863 by the Italian and Swiss Alpine Clubs, and in 1874 by the French Alpine Club, not to mention numerous minor societies of more local character.

* W. Somerset Maugham ( 1874 – 1965 ), English author

His efforts were first directed to the preparation of textbooks: Higher English Grammar and An English Grammar were both published in 1863, followed in 1866 by the Manual of Rhetoric, in 1872 by A First English Grammar, and in 1874 by the Companion to the Higher Grammar.

* George Smith ( executioner ) ( 1805 – 1874 ), English executioner also known as Throttler Smith

* John Trollope, 1st Baron Kesteven ( 1800 – 1874 ) English.