A study conducted in 1901 by physician Duncan MacDougall sought to measure the weight lost by a human when the soul " departed the body " upon death.

Their 1901 – 1907 jerseys, both home and road, simply read " Boston ", except for 1902 when they sported large letters " B " and " A " denoting " Boston " and " American.

In 1901 Cleveland renamed itself the " Bluebirds " when the American League broke with the National Agreement and declared itself a competing Major League.

The term also served when six Australian colonies federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901.

In 1901, with a better vacuum pump, Pyotr Lebedev showed that in fact, the radiometer only works when there is low pressure gas in the bulb, and the vanes stay motionless in a hard vacuum.

Low-intensity storms have hit the island, including in 1901, which blew over 1, 500 coconut trees, on September 16, 1944 which caused the wreck of a Royal Air Force PBY Catalina, September 1990 which demolished the tent city then being constructed for USAF bomber crews during Operation Desert Storm, and on July 22, 2007 when winds exceeded and over of rain fell in 24 hours.

Theodore Roosevelt, the youngest to serve, was 42 years and 11 months old when he was sworn in following the death of William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy, the youngest to be elected, was 43 years and 7 months old when he was inaugurated in 1961.

Liberals favoured recognising Demotic as the national language, but conservatives and the Orthodox Church resisted all such efforts, to the extent that, when the New Testament was translated into Demotic in 1901, riots erupted in Athens and the government fell ( the Evangeliaka ).

Niue was a British protectorate for a time, but the UK's direct involvement ended in 1901 when New Zealand annexed the island.

Alameda, the largest island, was created when a shipping lane was cut in 1901.

Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever ; he beat out the youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy, by only one year.

Recently restored by the National Trust, it looks as it did in January 1901, when Marconi received the distance record signals of from his transmitter station at Niton, Isle of Wight.

King George V gifted to Victoria College a silver cup used by Queen Victoria when she was a child and the Royal Standard that had flown at Osborne House and was draped on the coffin of the Queen when she died there in 1901.

Fertility rates in the Victorian era increased every decade until 1901 when the rates started evening out.

Nikola Tesla discovered in 1901 that when a metal was illuminated by high-frequency light ( e. g., ultraviolet light ), electrons were ejected from the metal at high energy.

In 1901, King's roommate and best friend, Henry Albert Harper, died heroically during a skating party when a young woman fell through the ice of the partly frozen Ottawa River.

He later ran for mayor and governor and even sought the presidential nomination, but lost much of his personal prestige when outrage exploded in 1901 after columnist Ambrose Bierce and editor Arthur Brisbane published separate columns months apart that suggested the assassination of William McKinley.

Espresso machines were introduced at the beginning of the 20th century when Luigi Bezzera of Milan filed the first patent in 1901., and although the first generations of machines certainly did not make espresso the way we define it today, coffee making in Cafés changed in the first decades of the 20th century.

The critical use of the word " cube " goes back at least to May 1901 when Jean Béral, reviewing the work of Cross at the Indépendants in Art et Littérature, commented that he " uses a large and square pointillism, giving the impression of mosaic.

Ironically, Roosevelt would be elevated to the Presidency in September 1901, when McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York.

By January 1901 Pupin had been paid $ 200, 000 and by 1917, when the AT & T monopoly ended and payments ceased, he had received a total of $ 455, 000.

In Québec, Val-Jalbert is a well-known tourist ghost town ; founded in 1901 around a mechanical pulp mill which became obsolete when paper mills began to break down wood fibre by chemical means, it was abandoned when the mill closed in 1927 and re-opened as a park in 1960.

In 1901 Itosu helped to get karate introduced into Okinawa's public schools.

He won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 for developing a serum therapy against diphtheria ( this was helped by Kitasato Shibasaburo and worked on with Emile Roux ) and tetanus.

He helped construct the death mask of U. S. President William McKinley, who was assassinated in Buffalo in 1901.

The arrival of the railroad in 1901, with access to the markets of Atlanta, helped the town reach prosperity.

In 1901 Remsen was appointed the president of Johns Hopkins, where he proceeded to found a School of Engineering and helped establish the school as a research university.

In 1901 he helped to found the short-lived Japanese Social-Democratic party, which the government swiftly prohibited.

Chanute helped to publicize the Wright brothers ' work, and provided consistent encouragement, visiting their camp near Kitty Hawk in 1901, 1902 and 1903.

Junius Harworth and Anton Pruckner, who sometimes helped or worked for Whitehead, gave statements decades later as part of Stella Randolph's research, claiming they saw Whitehead fly on 14 August 1901.

In 1901, he helped negotiate the secret sale of Carnegie Steel to a group of New York-based financiers led by J. P. Morgan.

His books on music, as well as the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya music school that he opened in Lahore in 1901, helped foster a movement away from the closed gharana system.

Harry Bridges ( July 28, 1901 – March 30, 1990 ) was an Australian-born American union leader, in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union ( ILWU ), which he helped form and led for over 40 years.

He was chosen as a deputy for the first time in 1901, and again in 1903 and 1905, as a member of the Republican Union party that he had helped to form with Nicolás Salmerón.

Heflin first rose to political prominence as a delegate who helped to draft the 1901 Alabama state constitution.

Borchgrevink's credibility was not helped by the boastful tone sounded in various articles which were published in Newnes's magazines, nor by the journalistic style of his rapidly-written expedition account, First on the Antarctic Continent, the English edition of which appeared in 1901.

Around 1901, along with Viktor Silberer and Franz Hinterstoissera Camillo helped to create the Viennese aero club ( later Austrian aero club ).

No doubt the continued ' hullabaloo ' at the death-rate in these concentration camps, and Milner's belated agreement to take over their administration, helped changed K's mind time at the end of 1901.

Howard mentioned the university and its purpose in a speech at Carnegie Hall in 1901, which helped raise money and allowed the university to pay off its debts.

Sieh studied four of these events ( 1901, 1922, 1934, and 1966 ) and found that they helped to determine the southeast boundary for the origination of the dawn foreshock.

After her release in 1896, she formed a Socialist-Revolutionary group and helped to organize the Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1901.

The wax thumb-print reproduction idea was devised by, and bought from, Bertram Fletcher Robinson ( 1870 – 1907 ), who also helped plot The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1901 ).

In 1901 he helped to found the Celtic Literary Society, and in 1908 he founded the Cork Dramatic Society with Daniel Corkery and wrote a number of plays for them.

Sikh Soldiers of the British Army helped build the Gurdwara in 1901.

With the opening of Tattenham Corner railway station much closer to the racecourse on 4 June 1901 ( Derby Day ) traffic declined, helped in particular by the Royal Train changing its destination to Tattenham Corner in the 1920s.

The McMillan Plan of 1901 helped restore and beautify the downtown core area, including establishing the National Mall, along with numerous monuments and museums.