Department of Physics
Technology in the physics laboratory that year consisted of: comparator, balance, hectogram balance, reversible pendulum, chronometer and chronograph, cathetometers, dividing engines, level trier, harmonograph, tuning forks and organ pipes, standard thermometers, spectometers, concave grating spectroscope, chemical spectroscopes, difraction and inference aparatus, chemical aparatus... (continued pg. 5 in the history).
In 1900, Harry W. Springsteen is awarded the first M.S. in physics.