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The year 1826 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
[edit]- Mary Somerville presents a paper on "The Magnetic Properties of the Violet Rays of the Solar Spectrum" to the Royal Society in London.
Chemistry
[edit]- Otto Unverdorben first isolates aniline, by destructive distillation of indigo;[1] he calls it Crystallin.
- Antoine Jerome Balard isolates bromine.
- Pierre Jean Robiquet isolates the dye alizarin.[2]
- Michael Faraday determines the chemical formula of naphthalene.
Exploration
[edit]- May 22 – HMS Beagle departs on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America.
- Hyacinthe de Bougainville completes a three-year global circumnavigation.
Mathematics
[edit]- Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik is founded by August Leopold Crelle in Berlin.
- February 23 – Nikolai Lobachevsky first presents his system of non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry.
Physiology and medicine
[edit]- Johannes Peter Müller publishes his first important works, Zur vergleichenden Physiologie des Gesichtsinns ("On the comparative physiology of sight", Leipzig) and Über die phantastischen Gesichtserscheinungen ("On visual hallucination", Coblenz), making a first statement of the law of specific nerve energies.
Technology
[edit]- January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.[3]
- April 1 – American inventor Samuel Morey patents a compressionless internal combustion engine in the United States.[4][5][6]
- June – Nicéphore Niépce produces the first photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras.[7]
- Benoit Fourneyron develops an efficient outward-flow water turbine.
- James Sharp of Northampton in England patents a practical form of gas stove.
Zoology
[edit]- Karl Ernst von Baer discovers the mammalian ovum.[8][9][10]
- The Austrian zoologist Johann Nepomuk Meyer first describes the Asiatic lion under the name Felis leo persicus.[11]
- The Zoological Society of London is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.
Awards
[edit]Births
[edit]- January 15 – Marie Pasteur (died 1910), French chemist.
- May 26 – Richard Carrington (died 1875), English astronomer.
- June 26 – Morgan Crofton (died 1915), Irish mathematician.
- July 7 – John Fowler (died 1864), English agricultural engineer.
- July 13 – Stanislao Cannizzaro (died 1910), Italian chemist.
- August 21 – Carl Gegenbaur (died 1903), German anatomist.[13]
- September 17 – Bernhard Riemann (died 1866), German mathematician.
- October 8 – Emily Blackwell (died 1910), American physician.
- Alphonse de Polignac (died 1863), French mathematician.
Deaths
[edit]- January 3 – Marie Le Masson Le Golft (born 1750), French naturalist.
- January 6 – John Farey (born 1766), English geologist.
- March 28 - Jean-Baptiste Dumangin (born 1744), French physician.[14]
- June 7 – Joseph von Fraunhofer (born 1787), German physicist.
- June 30 - Clément Joseph Tissot (born 1747), French physician and physiotherapist.[15]
- July 4 – Thomas Jefferson (born 1743), Founding Father and 3rd President of the United States and inventor.
- July 22 – Giuseppe Piazzi (born 1746), Italian astronomer.
- August 13 - René Laennec (born 1781), French physician and musician.[16]
- September 6 - Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri (born 1772), Italian surgeon.[17]
- October 25 – Philippe Pinel (born 1745), French psychiatrist.
- November 23 – Johann Elert Bode (born 1747), German astronomer.
- November 24 - Clarke Abel (born 1780), British surgeon and naturalist.[18]
References
[edit]- ↑ Unverdorben, Otto (1826). "Ueber das Verhalten der organischen Körper in höheren Temperaturen" [On the behaviour of organic substances at high temperatures] (PDF). Annalen der Physik und Chemie. 8 (11): 397–410. Bibcode:1826AnP....84..397U. doi:10.1002/andp.18260841109.
- ↑ Robiquet, Pierre-Jean; Colin, Jean-Jacques (1826). "Sur un nouveau principe immédiat des vègétaux (l’alizarin) obtenu de la garance" [On a new substance from plants (alizarin) obtained from madder]. Journal de pharmacie et des sciences accessoires 2nd series, 12:407–412; Colin, Jean-Jacques; Robiquet, Pierre-Jean (1827). "Nouvelles recherches sur la matierè colorante de la garance" [New research into the coloring material of madder]. Annales de chimie et de physique 2nd series, 34:225–253.
- ↑ Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.
- ↑ X4,378 Gas Or Vapor Engine
- ↑ Hardenberg, Horst O. (1992). Samuel Morey and his atmospheric engine. SP-922. Warrendale, Pa.: Society of Automotive Engineers. ISBN 1-56091-240-5.
- ↑ Maurer, Leon. "The Unsolved Mystery of Samuel Morey". Archived from the original on 2013-11-03. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
- ↑ "The First Photograph". Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on 2009-12-27. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
- ↑ Reported as "Ovi Mammalium et Hominis genesi" to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg in 1827 (published at Leipzig).
- ↑ Petrunkevitch, Alexander (1920). "Russia's Contribution to Science". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 23: 236.
- ↑ "Биография Бэр Карл Максимович". AllPersona.Ru. Archived from the original on 2008-03-19. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
- ↑ Meyer, J. N. (1826). Dissertatio inauguralis anatomico-medica de genere felium. Doctoral thesis, University of Vienna.
- ↑ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ↑ "Gegenbaur, Carl (1826-1903)". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ↑ Corlieu, Auguste (1901). "Le docteur Dumangin de Château-Thierry et le cœur de Louis XVII". Annales de la Société historique et archéologique de Château-Thierry (in French): 103–107.
- ↑ "Tissot, Clément-Joseph (1747-1826)". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ↑ "Laennec, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe (1781-1826)". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
- ↑ Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri at Whonamedit?
- ↑ "Abel, Clarke (1789-1826)". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Retrieved 6 February 2021.