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The year
1816 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events, listed below.
Botany
[
edit
]
Botanic Gardens, Sydney
, established in Australia.
Chemistry
[
edit
]
Veuve Clicquot
invents the riddling table process to clarify
champagne
.
Mathematics
[
edit
]
John Farey
notes the
Farey sequence
.
[1]
Medicine
[
edit
]
René Laennec
invents the
stethoscope
.
[2]
Caleb Parry
publishes
An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature, Cause and Varieties of the Arterial Pulse
, describing the mechanisms for the
pulse
.
[3]
Mineralogy
[
edit
]
Johann Fischer von Waldheim
publishes
Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite
in
Moscow
, the first scientific treatise on the mineral
turquoise
.
Physics
[
edit
]
Sir
David Brewster
(
1781
–
1868
) discovers stress
birefringence
.
Technology
[
edit
]
January 9 – Sir
Humphry Davy
's
Davy lamp
is first tested underground as a
coal mining
safety lamp
at
Hebburn
Colliery in north east England.
[4]
The
Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill
, a temporary iron-wire footbridge erected across the
Schuylkill River
, north of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
, is the first wire-cable
suspension bridge
in history.
[5]
Johann Nepomuk Maelzel
begins production of the
metronome
with a scale.
[6]
Rev.
Robert Stirling
obtains a
patent
in the
United Kingdom
for the
Stirling
hot air engine
.
approx. date
–
Simeon North
in
New England
produces a practicable
milling machine
for working metal.
[7]
Awards
[
edit
]
Copley Medal
: Not awarded
[8]
Births
[
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]
January 2 –
Anastasie Fătu
, Moldavian and Romanian physician and naturalist (died
1886
)
July 7 –
Rudolf Wolf
, Swiss astronomer (died
1893
)
July 20 –
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
, English ophthalmologist, histologist and anatomist (died
1892
)
December 13 –
Werner Siemens
, German electrical engineer (died 1892)
Deaths
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]
January 2 –
Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau
, French chemist (born
1737
)
April 7 –
Christian Konrad Sprengel
, German botanist (born
1750
)
September 18 –
Bernard McMahon
, Irish American horticulturalist (born c.
1775
)
September 28 –
Edward Howard
, English chemist (born
1774
)
December 15 –
Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
, English engineer (born
1753
)
References
[
edit
]
^
Philosophical Magazine
47
: 385–86. 1816.
^
Laennec, R. T. H. (1819). "preface".
De l’Auscultation Médiate ou Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur
. Paris: Brosson & Chaudé.
^
"Parry, Caleb Hillier"
.
Whonamedit?
. Retrieved
2011-02-27
.
^
Thompson, Roy (2004).
Thunder underground: Northumberland mining disasters, 1815-1865
. Ashbourne: Landmark. p. 121.
ISBN
9781843061694
. Retrieved
2013-01-08
.
^
Peterson, Charles E. (22 March 1986). "The Spider Bridge: a curious work at the Falls of Schuylkill, 1816".
Canal History and Technology Proceedings
.
5
: 243–59.
^
Willems, J. de Vos (1830).
"The Metronome"
.
The Harmonicon
.
8
. Retrieved
2011-05-18
.
^
Muir, Diana
.
Reflections in Bullough's Pond
: Economy and Ecosystem in New England
. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England.
ISBN
978-0-87451-909-9
.
^
"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
21 July
2020
.
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