1782 in science
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The year 1782 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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[edit] Aviation
- December 14 - The Montgolfier brothers first test fly a hot air balloon; it floats nearly 2 km (1.2 mi).[1]
[edit] Chemistry
- Winter 1782-83 - Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace begin to use the world’s first ice calorimeter to determine the heat evolved in various chemical changes (calculations based on Joseph Black’s prior discovery of latent heat), marking the foundation of thermochemistry.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- June 3 - Charles Waterton, English naturalist and explorer (d. 1865)
[edit] Deaths
- January 18 - Sir John Pringle, Scottish-born physician (b. 1707)
- March 17 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-Swiss mathematician (b. 1700)
- May 16 - Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
- May 20 - William Emerson, English mathematician (born 1701)
[edit] References
- ^ Gillispie, Charles Coulston (1983). The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation, 1783-1784. Princeton University Press. p. 21. ISBN 0691083215.