1856 in science

none 1856 science 1856 The year 1856 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Archaeology First remains of Neanderthal Man found in the Neandertal Valley of Germany.Feldhofer https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/feldhofer The Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program 21 July 2020 en 30 January 2010 Astronomy N. R. Pogson proposes that the ratio used in Hipparchus' stellar apparent magnitude system should be adopted as a standard. NGC 6539 is discovered by Theodor Brorsen. Biology Paul Du Chaillu becomes the first European to observe gorillas in the wild.Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, and other Animals (1861). Gregor Mendel starts his research on genetics. Lev Tsenkovsky introduces the concept that the lower algae and other infusoria are unicellular organisms.Alexander Petrunkevitch Russia's Contribution to Science Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences 23 1920 233 Chemistry March – William Perkin first discovers an aniline dye, mauveine.Garfield Simon Simon Garfield Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour that Changed the World London Faber 0-571-20197-0 2000 Alexander Parkes patents the first thermoplastic, Parkesine.UK Patent office Patents for inventions 1857 UK Patent office 255 https://books.google.com/books?id=0nCoU-2tAx8C&pg=PA255 Louis Pasteur crystallizes galactose.Pasteur (1856). "Note sur le sucre de lait" (Note on milk sugar), Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, 42:347-351. Charles-Adolphe Wurtz discovers the glycols. Exploration May 20 – Dr David Livingstone arrives at Quelimane on the Indian Ocean having completed a 2-year transcontinental journey across Africa from Luanda.Central Africa, explored http://unimaps.com/cafrica-explored/print.html Unimaps.com 2005 2011-08-26 Thomas Montgomerie of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India makes the first survey of the Karakoram Range, from Mount Haramukh, 130 mi km flip in to the south, and designates the two most prominent peaks as K1 and K2.K2: the Story of the Savage Mountain Curran Jim 1995 Hodder & Stoughton London 978-0-340-66007-2 25 Mathematics Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton invents the icosian game, which involves finding the Hamiltonian path on a dodecahedron. Meteorology August 23 – Eunice Newton Foote's paper on "Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays" read at the American Association for the Advancement of Science presents the causes of the greenhouse effect. October 4 – American meteorologist William Ferrel demonstrates the tendency of rising and rotating warm air to pull in air from more southerly, warmer regions and transport it poleward.Ferrel W. An essay on the winds and the currents of the Oceans Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery 1856 11 287–301 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_essay_on_the_winds_and_the_currents_of_the_ocean Paleontology American paleontologist Joseph Leidy describes the new tyrannosaurid dinosaur genus and species Deinodon horridus.Holtz Thomas R. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 2004 Tyrannosauroidea Weishampel, David B. Dodson, Peter Osmólska, Halszka The Dinosauria 2nd University of California Press Berkeley 114 0-520-24209-2 Physics Henry Darcy formulates Darcy's law on fluid flow.H. Darcy Les Fontaines Publiques de la Ville de Dijon Dalmont Paris 1856 Technology September 22 – British metallurgist Robert Mushet patents improvements to the Bessemer process for the production of steel.Stephen van Dulken Inventing the 19th Century: the great age of Victorian inventions London British Library 2001 0-7123-0881-4 30 English agricultural engineer John Fowler first demonstrates his steam-driven agricultural ploughing system.Harold Bonnett Saga of the Steam Plough Newton Abbot David & Charles 1972 0715357425 English engineer John Ramsbottom invents a tamper-proof spring safety valve for steam locomotives.1908 Safety Valve, Ramsbottom Valves https://books.google.com/books?id=G0cwAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA15 Henley's Encyclopedia of Practical Engineering The N. W. Henley Publishing Co New York 2009-06-13 French chemist Alphonse Louis Poitevin invents the collotype photographic process. Tinsmith Ralph Collier of Baltimore, Maryland, patents the first egg beater with rotating parts.16267. James Harrison produces the world's first practical ice making machine and refrigerator using the principle of vapour compression in Geelong, Australia.An Act to render valid a Patent heretofore granted to James Harrison for Manufacturing Ice Flinders University Adelaide https://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/2352/1/PAct21862.pdf Moravian Leopold Breit introduces Streichmelodion. Sarrusophone patented. Approximate date – Bandoneon invented. Awards Copley Medal: Henri Milne-EdwardsCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 23 July 2020 en Wollaston Medal for Geology: William Edmond Logan Births February 15 – Emil Kraepelin (died 1926), German psychiatrist. March 9 – Edward Goodrich Acheson (died 1931), American industrial chemist. May 6 Sigmund Freud (died 1939), Austrian psychoanalyst. Robert Peary (died 1920), American polar explorer. May 19 – Nadezhda Ziber-Shumova (died 1916), Russian biochemist. July 10 – Nikola Tesla (died 1943), Serb inventor. August 27 – Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen (died 1921), Danish ornithologist. August 30 – Charles Alfred Ballance (died 1936), English surgeon. September 14 – Sergei Winogradsky (died 1953), Russian microbiologist. December 18 – J. J. Thomson (died 1940), English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Deaths February 24 (February 12 Old Style) – Nikolai Lobachevsky (born 1792), Russian mathematician and geometer. February 25 – George Don (born 1797), Scottish botanist. July 9 – Amedeo Avogadro (born 1776), Italian chemist. August 24 – William Buckland (born 1784), English geologist and paleontologist. September 1 – William Yarrell (born 1784), English zoologist and bookseller. November 20 – Farkas Bolyai (born 1775), Hungarian mathematician. November 21 – James Meadows Rendel (born 1799), English civil engineer. December 23/24 – Hugh Miller (born 1802), Scottish geologist (suicide). date unknown – Enriqueta Favez (born 1791), Swiss physician and surgeon. References Category:19th century in science Category:1850s in science