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1826
The year 1826 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
Mary Somerville presents a paper on "The Magnetic Properties of the Violet Rays of the Solar Spectrum" to the Royal Society in London.
Chemistry
Otto Unverdorben first isolates aniline, by destructive distillation of indigo;Ueber das Verhalten der organischen Körper in höheren Temperaturen On the behaviour of organic substances at high temperatures Otto Unverdorben Annalen der Physik und Chemie 8 397–410 1826 https://zenodo.org/records/1423512/files/article.pdf 10.1002/andp.18260841109 1826AnP....84..397U 11 he calls it Crystallin.
Antoine Jerome Balard isolates bromine.
Pierre Jean Robiquet isolates the dye alizarin.Robiquet, Pierre-Jean; Colin, Jean-Jacques (1826). "Sur un nouveau principe immédiat des vègétaux (l’alizarin) obtenu de la garance" [On a new substance from plants (alizarin) obtained from madder]. Journal de pharmacie et des sciences accessoires 2nd series, 12:407–412; Colin, Jean-Jacques; Robiquet, Pierre-Jean (1827). "Nouvelles recherches sur la matierè colorante de la garance" [New research into the coloring material of madder]. Annales de chimie et de physique 2nd series, 34:225–253.
Michael Faraday determines the chemical formula of naphthalene.
Exploration
May 22 – Beagle departs on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America.
Hyacinthe de Bougainville completes a three-year global circumnavigation.
Mathematics
Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik is founded by August Leopold Crelle in Berlin.
February 23 – Nikolai Lobachevsky first presents his system of non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry.
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.
Technology
January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.L. T. C. Rolt L. T. C. Rolt Thomas Telford https://archive.org/details/thomastelford00rolt registration London Longmans, Green 1958
April 1 – American inventor Samuel Morey patents a compressionless internal combustion engine in the United States.X4378 X4,378 Gas Or Vapor EngineSamuel Morey and his atmospheric engine Horst O. Hardenberg Warrendale, Pa. Society of Automotive Engineers 1992 SP-922 1-56091-240-5Maurer Leon The Unsolved Mystery of Samuel Morey https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/lnmaurer/web/SamuelMorey.htm 2013-11-01 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20131103021201/https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/lnmaurer/web/SamuelMorey.htm 2013-11-03
June – Nicéphore Niépce produces the first photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras.http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/ The First Photograph Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin 2013-11-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20091227215421/http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/wfp/ 2009-12-27 dead
Benoit Fourneyron develops an efficient outward-flow water turbine.
James Sharp of Northampton in England patents a practical form of gas stove.
Zoology
Karl Ernst von Baer discovers the mammalian ovum.Reported as "Ovi Mammalium et Hominis genesi" to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg in 1827 (published at Leipzig).Alexander Petrunkevitch Russia's Contribution to Science Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 23 1920 236http://www.allpersona.ru/people/72032.html Биография Бэр Карл Максимович AllPersona.Ru 2011-05-18 https://web.archive.org/web/20080319143038/http://www.allpersona.ru/people/72032.html 2008-03-19
The Austrian zoologist Johann Nepomuk Meyer first describes the Asiatic lion under the name Felis leo persicus.Meyer, J. N. (1826). Dissertatio inauguralis anatomico-medica de genere felium. Doctoral thesis, University of Vienna.
The Zoological Society of London is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.
Awards
Copley Medal: James SouthCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 22 July 2020 en
Births
January 15 – Marie Pasteur (died 1910), French chemist.
May 26 – Richard Carrington (died 1875), English astronomer.
June 26 – Morgan Crofton (died 1915), Irish mathematician.
July 7 – John Fowler (died 1864), English agricultural engineer.
July 13 – Stanislao Cannizzaro (died 1910), Italian chemist.
August 21 – Carl Gegenbaur (died 1903), German anatomist.Gegenbaur, Carl (1826-1903) https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb103532093 catalogue.bnf.fr Bibliothèque Nationale de France 6 February 2021 fr
September 17 – Bernhard Riemann (died 1866), German mathematician.
October 8 – Emily Blackwell (died 1910), American physician.
Alphonse de Polignac (died 1863), French mathematician.
Deaths
January 3 – Marie Le Masson Le Golft (born 1750), French naturalist.
January 6 – John Farey (born 1766), English geologist.
March 28 - Jean-Baptiste Dumangin (born 1744), French physician.Corlieu Auguste Le docteur Dumangin de Château-Thierry et le cœur de Louis XVII Annales de la Société historique et archéologique de Château-Thierry 1901 103–107 https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k445664k/f118.item.r=DUMANGIN fr
June 7 – Joseph von Fraunhofer (born 1787), German physicist.
June 30 - Clément Joseph Tissot (born 1747), French physician and physiotherapist.Tissot, Clément-Joseph (1747-1826) https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb124625398 catalogue.bnf.fr Bibliothèque Nationale de France 6 February 2021 fr
July 4 – Thomas Jefferson (born 1743), Founding Father and 3rd President of the United States and inventor.
July 22 – Giuseppe Piazzi (born 1746), Italian astronomer.
August 13 - René Laennec (born 1781), French physician and musician.Laennec, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe (1781-1826) https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12462982h catalogue.bnf.fr Bibliothèque Nationale de France 6 February 2021 fr
September 6 - Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri (born 1772), Italian surgeon.doctor 1762 Andrea Vaccà Berlinghieri
October 25 – Philippe Pinel (born 1745), French psychiatrist.
November 23 – Johann Elert Bode (born 1747), German astronomer.
November 24 - Clarke Abel (born 1780), British surgeon and naturalist.Abel, Clarke (1789-1826) https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb10230696n catalogue.bnf.fr Bibliothèque Nationale de France 6 February 2021 fr
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