Belgian engineer Floris Nollet invented (and patented) a practical AC generator

11 May 1850 discovery of 11 Parthenope

13 September 1850 discovery of 12 Victoria

2 November 1850 discovery of 13 Egeria

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15 January 1850 Birth of Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

9 May 1850 Death of Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

18 May 1850 Birth of Oliver Heaviside

1850 Death of Germain Henri Hess

Chronology 1849 - 1850 - 1851