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THIS IS A SAMPLE SORTABLE LIST, WHICH COULD BE USED FOR THE WIKIPEDIA PAGE ON MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT DISCOVERIES:

Discovery/Invention	Date of first discovery or invention	First discoverer or inventor	Date of second discovery or invention	Second discoverer or inventor	Date of third discovery or invention	Third discoverer or inventor and others	Details of discovery or invention
Description of an efficient algorithm to compute the discrete Fourier transform	1805 (published 1866) ^[1]	Carl Friedrich Gauss	1965	James W. Cooley and John W. Tukey^[2]
Cadmium	1817	Friedrich Strohmeyer	1817	K.S.L Hermann
Grotthuss–Draper law (aka the Principle of Photochemical Activation)	1817	Theodor Grotthuss	1842	John William Draper
Beryllium	1828	Friedrich Wöhler	1828	A.A.B. Bussy
Electromagnetic induction^[3]	1831	Michael Faraday	1831	Joseph Henry
Chloroform	1831 (July)	Samuel Guthrie	1831 (after July)	Eugène Soubeiran	1831 (after July)	Justus von Liebig	All three discoverers used variations of the haloform reaction.
Non-Euclidian geometry	1805 (unpublished result)	Carl Friedrich Gauss	1830	Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky	1832	János Bolyai
Dandelin–Gräffe method, aka Lobachevsky method	1826	Germinal Pierre Dandelin	1837	Karl Heinrich Gräffe	1834	Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.	This is an algorithm for finding multiple roots of a polynomial
Electrical telegraph	1837	Charles Wheatstone	1837	Samuel F.B. Morse
First law of thermodynamics	1842	Julius Robert von Mayer	1843	James Joule	1843	Ludwig A. Colding	The question of priority became a celebrated dispute.
Discovery of Neptune	1846 (September)	Urbain Le Verrier	1846 (September)	John Couch Adams			Both Le Verrier and Adams had independently proved, based on an analysis of Uranus' orbit, that another, farther planet must exist. Neptune was found at the predicted moment and position.
Möbius strip	1858	August Ferdinand Möbius	1858	Johann Benedict Listing
Theory of evolution by natural selection	1840 (approx. date of unpublished discovery)	Charles Darwin	1857-8	Alfred Russel Wallace			Darwin and Wallace pubished jointly in 1859, after Wallace had contacted Darwin privately to reveal the content of what he thought was his own discovery.
109P/Swift–Tuttle (the comet generating the Perseid meteor shower).	1862 (July 16)	Lewis Swift	1862 (July 19)	Horace Parnell Tuttle	1992	Tsuruhiko Kiuchi	Kiuchi’s rediscovery took place when the comet made a return appearance.
Helium	1868 (Aug. 18)	Pierre Jansen	1868 (Aug. 18)	Norman Lockyer			Both Janssen and Lockyer discovered helium by studying the same solar eclipse.^[4]
periodic table of chemical elements.	1869	Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev	1870	Julius Lothar Meyer
Description of the entry of sperm into the egg and the subsequent fusion of the egg and sperm nuclei to form a single new nucleus.	1876	Oskar Hertwig	1876	Hermann Fol
Invention of the telephone	1876	Elisha Gray	1876	Alexander Graham Bell			Both Gray and Bell filed a patent for this invention on the same day.
Phonograph	1877	Charles Cros	1878	Thomas Edison
The Hall–Héroult process for inexpensively producing aluminum ^[5]	1886	Charles Martin Hall	1886	Paul Héroult
The proof of the prime number theorem (the asymptotic law of the distribution of prime numbers).	1896	Jacques Hadamard	1896	Charles de la Vallée-Poussin
The sound law now known as the Saussure–Fortunatov law.^[6]		[Filip Fyodorovich Fortunatov]]		Ferdinand de Saussure

References

^ Gauss, Carl Friedrich, "Nachlass: Theoria interpolationis methodo nova tractata", Werke, Band 3, Göttingen, Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 1866, pp. 265–327.
^ Heideman, M. T., D. H. Johnson, and C. S. Burrus, "Gauss and the history of the fast Fourier transform," Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 34, no. 3 (1985), pp. 265–277.
^ Halliday et al., Physics, vol. 2, 2002, p. 775.
^ "Aug. 18, 1868: Helium Discovered During Total Solar Eclipse", http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0818/
^ Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, p. 933.
^ N.E. Collinge, The Laws of Indo-European, pp. 149-52.

[1] Gauss, Carl Friedrich, "Nachlass: Theoria interpolationis methodo nova tractata", Werke, Band 3, Göttingen, Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, 1866, pp. 265–327.

[2] Heideman, M. T., D. H. Johnson, and C. S. Burrus, "Gauss and the history of the fast Fourier transform," Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 34, no. 3 (1985), pp. 265–277.

[3] Halliday et al., Physics, vol. 2, 2002, p. 775.

[4] "Aug. 18, 1868: Helium Discovered During Total Solar Eclipse", http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0818/

[5] Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, p. 933.

[6] N.E. Collinge, The Laws of Indo-European, pp. 149-52.

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