# ## year without a summer acted as a catalyst > [!zettel] > - keywords:: [[Year without a summer]] > - location:: > - period:: The 1816 year without a summer is connected with a number of things - [[eruption of Mount Tambora caused poor crops and famine in 1816]] - Justus von Liebig was influenced to study agriculture as a result of the 1816 famine. He went on to develop the first commercial infant formula decades later, as well as his work on fertilizers. His work may also be responsible for Marmite… - the invention of the velocipede because of the cost of oats to feed horses ([New Scientist – Brimstone and bicycles](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524841-900-brimstone-and-bicycles)) - the initial ideation of [[shelley1818FrankensteinModernPrometheus|Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus]] - [[John Polidori]] wrote [[polidori1819Vampyre|The Vampyre]] related:: [[1816 was known as the year without a summer because of a volcanic eruption in 1815]] related:: [[influences on the creation of Frankenstein]]