1826 in science
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The year 1826 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Chemistry
- Antoine Jerome Balard isolates bromine.
- Michael Faraday determines the chemical formula of naphthalene.
[edit] Exploration
- Hyacinthe de Bougainville completes a three-year global circumnavigation.
[edit] Mathematics
- Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik is founded by August Leopold Crelle in Berlin.
- February - Nikolai Lobachevsky first presents his system of non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry.
[edit] Physiology and medicine
- 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.
[edit] Technology
- January 30 - The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.[1]
- April 1 -Samuel Morey patents an internal combustion engine .
- Nicéphore Niépce produces the first photograph.
- Benoit Fourneyron develops an efficient outward-flow water turbine.
[edit] Zoology
- Karl Ernst von Baer discovers the mammalian ovum.[2][3][4]
- The Zoological Society of London is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- May 26 - Richard Carrington (d. 1875), English astronomer.
- June 26 - Morgan Crofton (d. 1915), Irish mathematician.
- July 7 - John Fowler (d. 1864), English agricultural engineer.
- July 13 - Stanislao Cannizzaro (d. 1910), Italian chemist.
- September 17 - Bernhard Riemann (d. 1866), German mathematician.
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - John Farey (b. 1766), geologist.
- June 7 - Joseph von Fraunhofer (b. 1787), physicist.
- July 22 - Giuseppe Piazzi (b. 1746), astronomer.
- October 25 - Philippe Pinel (b. 1745), psychiatrist.
- November 23 - Johann Elert Bode (b. 1747), astronomer.
[edit] References
- ^ Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.
- ^ Reported as "Ovi Mammalium et Hominis genesi" to the 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. http://web.archive.org/web/20080319143038/http://www.allpersona.ru/people/72032.html. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
