1820 in science
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The year 1820 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- Astronomical Society of London is founded.[1]
[edit] Biology
- Christian Friedrich Nasse formulates Nasse's law: hemophilia occurs only in males and is transmitted by asymptomatic females.
[edit] Chemistry
- May - John Herapath draws up a partial account of the kinetic theory of gases.[2]
[edit] Computing
- Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar makes his "Arithmometer", the first mass-produced calculator.
[edit] Exploration
- January 28 (NS) - Antarctica is sighted for the first time by Imperial Russian Navy captain Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen.[3]
- January 30 - Antarctica is sighted for the second time by British Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield.[3]
- November 17 - Antarctica is sighted for the third time by United States seal hunter Nathaniel Palmer.[4]
[edit] Physics
- Hans Christian Ørsted discovers the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
- Laws of electrodynamics are established by André-Marie Ampère.
- Jean-Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart demonstrate the Biot–Savart law in electromagnetism.
[edit] Technology
- July 26 - Opening of Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland, designed by Captain Samuel Brown. Its span of 449 ft (137 metres) is the longest in the Western world at this time, and it is the first wrought iron vehicular suspension bridge bridge of its type in Britain.[5]
- English inventor Thomas Hancock patents the production of fastenings using rubberized fabrics and invents the "pickling machine" (masticator) for recycling rubber scraps.
- French engineer Jean-Victor Poncelet develops an inward-flow water turbine.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- January 20 - Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois (d. 1886), mineralogist.
- March 24 - Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (d. 1891), physicist.
- April 16 - Victor Alexandre Puiseux (d. 1883), mathematician.
- May 12 - Florence Nightingale (d. 1910), nurse.
- July 2 – William John Macquorn Rankine (d. 1872), physicist.
- August 2 - John Tyndall (d. 1893), physicist.
[edit] Deaths
- April 15 – John Bell (b. 1763), surgeon.
- June 19 – Joseph Banks (b. 1743), naturalist.
[edit] References
- ^ "A brief history of the RAS". Royal Astronomical Society. http://www.ras.org.uk/about-the-ras/a-brief-history. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ Herapath, J. (1821). "A Mathematical Inquiry into the Causes, Laws and Principal Phæenomena of Heat, Gases, Gravitation, &c". Annals of Philosophy 9: 273–293. http://books.google.com/?id=nCsAAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA273. Retrieved 2011-10-28.
- ^ a b Jones, A. G. E. (1982). Antarctica Observed: who discovered the Antarctic Continent?. Caedmon of Whitby. ISBN 0905355253.
- ^ "Sample Entries for Four Explorers". The Atlantic Circle. http://www.antarctic-circle.org/encyclopediaentries.htm. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
- ^ Drewry, Charles Stewart (1832). "Section III". A Memoir of Suspension Bridges: Comprising The History Of Their Origin And Progress. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. pp. 37–41. http://books.google.com/books?id=Hw8LAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
