1836 in science
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The year 1836 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads.
[edit] Biology
- October 2 - Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England, aboard HMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
- Theodor Schwann discovers pepsin in extracts from the stomach lining, the first isolation of an animal enzyme.
[edit] Chemistry
- French chemist Auguste Laurent discovers o-phthalic acid (1,2-benzenecarboxylic acid) by oxidizing naphthalene tetrachloride.
- The chemical compound acetylene, also called ethyne, is discovered by Edmund Davy.
[edit] Physics
- Nicholas Callan invents the first induction coil.[1][2][3]
- Andrew Crosse's electrical experiment seems to produce strange insects, acarus calvanicus.
[edit] Technology
- James Nasmyth invents the shaper.[4]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- May 17 - Norman Lockyer (d. 1920), astronomer.
- May 28 - Alexander Mitscherlich (d. 1918), chemist.
- June 9 - Elizabeth Garrett (d. 1917), physician.
- July 20 - Thomas Clifford Allbutt (d. 1925), physician.
[edit] Deaths
- June 10 - André-Marie Ampère (b. 1775), physicist.
- September 9 - William Henry (b. 1774), chemist (suicide).
- September 17 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (b. 1748), botanist.
[edit] References
- ^ Callan, N. J. (December 1836). page 477 "On a new Galvanic battery". Philosophical Magazine 3:9: 472–478. http://books.google.com/books?id=c5IOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA477&lpg=PA477#v=onepage&q&f=false page 477.
- ^ Callan, N. J. (April 1837). "A description of an electromagnetic repeater, or of a machine by which the connection between the voltaic battery and the helix of an electromagnet may be broken and renewed several thousand times in the space of one minute". Annals of Electricity (Sturgeon) 1: 229–230. http://books.google.com/books?id=SXgMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ Czarnik, Stanley A. (March 1992). "The classic induction coil". Popular Electronics. http://www.sentex.net/~mec1995/circ/hv/classic/classic.html.
- ^ Smiles, Samuel (1912). James Nasmyth Engineer: an Autobiography. John Murray. http://www.archive.org/details/jamesnasmythengi00nasmiala. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
