1851 in science
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The year 1851 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy
- February - First public exhibition of a Foucault pendulum, at the Meridian of the Paris Observatory, demonstrating the Earth's rotation. A few weeks later Foucault installs one at the Panthéon.[1]
- October 24 - Ariel and Umbriel, moons of Uranus, are discovered by William Lassell.[2]
[edit] Chemistry
- March - English sculptor Frederick Scott Archer makes public the wet plate collodion photographic process.[3]
- Charles-Adolphe Wurtz produces compound ureas.
[edit] Technology
- November 13 - First protected submarine telegraph cable laid, across the English Channel.
- William Armstrong introduces the weight-loaded hydraulic accumulator.[4]
[edit] Awards
- Copley Medal: Richard Owen
- Wollaston Medal for geology: Adam Sedgwick
[edit] Births
- January 19 - Jacobus Kapteyn (d. 1922), astronomer.
- April 12 - E. Walter Maunder (d. 1928), astronomer.
- July 8 - Arthur Evans (d. 1941), archaeologist.
- July 20 - Arnold Pick (d. 1924), neurologist.
- August 3 - George FitzGerald (d. 1901), mathematician.
[edit] Deaths
- January 27 - John James Audubon (b. 1785), naturalist and illustrator.
- February 18 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (b. 1804), mathematician.
- March 9 - Hans Christian Ørsted (b. 1777), physicist.
- July 17 - John Farey (b. 1791), mechanical engineer and technical writer.
- September 2 - William Nicol (b. 1770), geologist.
[edit] References
- ^ Tobin, William (2003). The Life and Science of Léon Foucault, the Man who Proved the Earth Rotates. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80855-3.
- ^ Astronomical Journal 2(33):p. 70 (1851).
- ^ The Chemist March 1851.
- ^ McNeill, Ian (1972). Hydraulic Power. London: Longman. ISBN 0-582-12797-1.
