1852 in science
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The year 1852 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Aeronautics
- September 24 - French engineer Henri Giffard makes the first airship trip, from Paris to Trappes.
[edit] Biology
- Last recognised sighting of a Great Auk, on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.[1]
[edit] Mathematics
- Francis Guthrie poses the four colour problem to Augustus De Morgan.[2][3]
[edit] Medicine
- January 15 - Nine representatives of Hebrew charitable organizations come together to form what will become the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.
- February 15 - The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits its first patient.[4]
[edit] Technology
- March 2 - The first American experimental steam fire engine is tested.[5]
- The mechanical semaphore line in France is superseded by the electric telegraph.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- April 10 - Arthur Vierendeel (d. 1940), Belgian civil engineer.
- May 1 - Santiago Ramón y Cajal (d. 1934), Spanish winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- August 30 - Jacobus van 't Hoff (d. 1911), Dutch chemist.
- September 9 - John Henry Poynting (d. 1914), English physicist, discoverer of the Poynting-Robertson effect and the Poynting vector.
- October 2 - William Ramsay (d. 1916), Scottish winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- December 15 - Henri Becquerel (d. 1908), French physicist.
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 - Louis Braille (b. 1809), French inventor.
- August 15 - Johan Gadolin (b. 1760), Finnish chemist.
- November 10 - Gideon Mantell (b. 1790), English paleontologist.
- November 27 - Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace (b. 1815), English computing pioneer.
[edit] References
- ^ BirdLife International (2004). Pinguinus impennis. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006.
- ^ Wilson, Robin (2002). Four Colors Suffice. London: Penguin Books. p. 18. ISBN 0-691-11533-8.
- ^ Cayley, Arthur (1879). "On the colourings of maps". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society (Blackwell) 1 (4): 259–261. doi:10.2307/1799998. JSTOR 1799998.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ King, William T. (1896). History of the American Steam Fire-Engine.
