1814 in science

none 1814 science 1814 The year 1814 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Chemistry J. Jacob Berzelius publishes Försök att genom användandet af den electrokemiska theorien och de kemiska proportionerna grundlägga ett rent vettenskapligt system för mineralogien ("An attempt to establish a pure scientific system of mineralogy, by the application of the electro-chemical theory and the chemical proportions"). The copper(II) acetate triarsenite (or copper(II) acetoarsenite) pigment later known as Paris green is produced by paint manufacturers Wilhelm Sattler and Friedrich Russ, in Schweinfurt, Germany, for the Wilhelm Dye and White Lead Company.Fiedler Inge Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics Bayard Michael A. National Gallery of Art 2012 3 Washington D.C. 219–271 Emerald Green and Scheele's Green Mathematics Peter Barlow publishes New Mathematical Tables and A New Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary. 'Barlow's Tables' continue to be reprinted for 150 years.Day, Lance McNeil, Ian Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology London Routledge 1996 0-415-06042-7 42 registration https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780415060424/page/42http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/53519/Peter-Barlow Encyclopædia Britannica Online Peter BarlowPeter Barlow http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Barlow.html University of St Andrews 2000 2011-04-02 Meteorology August – William Charles Wells publishes the first correct scientific explanation of dew. Medicine April – Abraham Colles publishes "On the Fracture of the Carpal Extremity of the Radius" in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, describing the injury which continues to be known as Colles' fracture.Boylan Henry 1998 A Dictionary of Irish Biography 3rd 73 Dublin Gill & Macmillan 0-7171-2945-4 October 23 – Joseph Carpue performs plastic surgery on the nose.Carpue, J. C. "Account of Two Successful Operations for Restoring a Lost Nose from the Integument of the Forehead". 1816.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 Physics 'Laplace's demon', an articulation of causal determinism, is published by Pierre-Simon Laplace.Pierre-Simon Laplace https://archive.org/details/philosophicaless00lapliala A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities.http://www.hawking.org.uk/does-god-play-dice.html Hawking Stephen Stephen Hawking Does God Play Dice? Public Lectures 2021-04-08 2012-01-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20120111012413/http://www.hawking.org.uk/does-god-play-dice.html dead Joseph von Fraunhofer discovers the dark absorption lines in the spectrum of the sun now known as Fraunhofer lines.The Glassmaker Who Sparked Astrophysics Kitty Ferguson & Miko Maciaszek http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/the-glassmaker-who-sparked-astrophysics 20 March 2014 8 April 2018 Nautilus 23 March 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20140323010729/http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/the-glassmaker-who-sparked-astrophysics dead Technology July 25 – George Stephenson puts his first steam locomotive in service, the Blücher for Killingworth Colliery on Tyneside in England. Late – Completion of the Boston Manufacturing Company's integrated cotton weaving mill on the Charles River at Waltham, Massachusetts, engineered by Paul Moody for Francis Cabot Lowell and 'The Boston Associates', and inaugurating the Waltham-Lowell system of manufacturing.James Burke (science historian) James Burke Connections https://archive.org/details/connections00burk_351 limited London Macmillan 1978 148–9 0-333-24827-9 "The world's first complex machine mass-produced from interchangeable parts", Eli Terry's wooden pillar-and-scroll clock, comes off the production line in Plymouth, Connecticut.Diana Muir Diana Muir Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England Lebanon, New Hampshire University Press of New England 978-0-87451-909-9 Chapter 10 James Fox invents a modern planing machine in England at about this date, but the priority between Fox, Matthew Murray of Leeds and Richard Roberts of Manchester cannot be certainly established.Joseph Wickham Roe Joseph Wickham Roe 1916 English and American Tool Builders Yale University Press New Haven https://books.google.com/books?id=X-EJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA50 Chapter V: Inventors of the Planer 50–62 Heinrich Stölzel invents a form of piston valve for brass instruments. Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel invents a form of metronome in Amsterdam.J. de Vos Willems https://books.google.com/books?id=HugqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17 The Metronome The Harmonicon 8 1830 2011-05-18 Awards Copley Medal: James IvoryCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births February 28 – Edmond Frémy, French chemist (died 1894). April 20 – Filippo de Filippi, Italian zoologist (died 1867). May 19 – Henry William Ravenel, American botanist (died 1887). May 22 – Joseph-Louis Lambot, French inventor of ferrocement (died 1887). May 26 Wilhelm Engerth, Austrian architect and engineer (died 1884). Heinrich Geißler, German scientific instrument maker (died 1879). July 19 – Samuel Colt, American gunmaker (died 1862). September 3 – James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician (died 1897). November 6 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian musical instrument maker and inventor (died 1894). December 9 – Golding Bird, English physician (died 1854) December 13 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse (died 1880). December 28 – John Bennet Lawes, English agricultural scientist (died 1900). Deaths July 19 – Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of the coasts of Australia (born 1774) August 21 – Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Anglo-American physicist (born 1753). November 18 – William Jessop, English civil engineer (born 1745). December 9 – Joseph Bramah, English inventor (born 1748). References Category:19th century in science Category:1810s in science