1816 in science
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The year 1816 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Mathematics
- John Farey notes the Farey sequence.[1]
[edit] Medicine
- 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]
[edit] Mineralogy
- Johann Fischer von Waldheim publishes Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite in Moscow, the first scientific treatise on the mineral turquoise.
[edit] Physics
- Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) discovers stress birefringence.
[edit] Technology
- 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.[4]
- Johann Nepomuk Maelzel begins production of the metronome with a scale.[5]
- 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.[6]
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Not awarded
[edit] Births
- July 7 - Rudolf Wolf, astronomer (died 1893)
- December 13 - Werner Siemens, electrical engineer (died 1892)
[edit] Deaths
- January 2 - Louis Guyton de Morveau, chemist (born 1737)
- April 7 - Christian Konrad Sprengel, botanist (born 1750)
- September 28 - Edward Howard, chemist (born 1774)
- December 15 - Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, engineer (born 1753)
[edit] References
- ^ Philosophical Magazine 47: 385-6. 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?. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/397.html. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
- ^ 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. http://books.google.com/books?id=HugqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17. 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 978-0874519099.
