1827 in science

none 1827 science 1827 The year 1827 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Chemistry April 7 – John Walker begins selling his invention, the "Lucifer" friction match, in England.Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 Aluminium isolated by Friedrich Wöhler.Ueber das Aluminium Friedrich Wöhler Annalen der Physik und Chemie http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k150967/f158.table 9 July 2010 William Prout classifies the components of food into the three main divisions of carbohydrates, fats and proteins.Richard Ahrens William Prout (1785–1850): a Biographical Sketch Journal of Nutrition 1977 107 1 15–23 http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/reprint/107/1/15 2008-03-06 319206 10.1093/jn/107.1.15 subscription Zeise's salt is the first platinum/olefin complex, an early example of organometallic chemistry. Exploration William Edward Parry reaches 82°45'N, which will remain for 49 years the highest latitude attained.Narrative of the Attempt to reach the North Pole, &c.. 1827.Berton Pierre The Arctic Grail: the Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909 1988 Random House of Canada Toronto 1-58574-116-7 100 registration https://archive.org/details/arcticgrailquest00bert_0/page/100 Geology Gideon Mantell publishes his Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, including the first use of the binomial Megalosaurus bucklandii. G. Poulett Scrope publishes his Memoir on the Geology of Central France, including the volcanic formations…, extending by detailed observation his work on volcanology.Burke James The Day the Universe Changed London BBC 1985 James Burke (science historian) 0-563-20192-4 250 History of science John Farey publishes A Treatise on the Steam Engine, historical, practical and descriptive in London. Medicine March 11 – The predecessor of Qasr El Eyni Hospital and Cairo University School of Medicine is established in Egypt under the direction of Antoine Clot as the first medical school in the region.http://www.ipka.medicine.cu.edu.eg/joomla/index.php/history History IPKA 2024-01-02 2022-12-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20221211145615/http://www.ipka.medicine.cu.edu.eg/joomla/index.php/history deadQasr El Eyni Hospital http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/575/chrncls.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060116131355/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/575/chrncls.htm 2006-01-16 Al Ahram Weekly 2002 575 2024-01-02 November 29 – Burke and Hare sell their first corpse for dissection by anatomist Robert Knox in Edinburgh (Scotland).West Port Murders https://archive.org/details/westportmurders00mdogoog Edinburgh Thomas Ireland 1829 Irish physician Robert Adams first describes the cardiac condition which will become known as Adams-Stokes syndrome.Robert Adams Cases of Diseases of the Heart Dublin Hospital Reports 4 1827 353–453J. O. Leibowitz The History of Coronary Heart Disease London Wellcome Institute 1970 0-85484-005-2 110–111 English physician Richard Bright first describes the renal condition which will become known as Bright's disease.Bright Richard Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy 1 Longmans 1827 London Physics May 1 – Georg Ohm publishes Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet (tr., The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically) in which Ohm's law makes its first appearance. Scottish botanist Robert Brown observes the phenomenon of Brownian motion. The Hutchinson Factfinder Helicon 1999 1-85986-000-1 Joseph Fourier first proposes existence of the greenhouse effect.Fourier Joseph Mémoire sur la température du globe terrestre et des espaces planétaires Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences 7 1827 Paris 569–604 Technology April 26–May 24 – The Royal Netherlands Navy's British-built paddle steamer Curaçao makes the first Transatlantic Crossing by steam, from Hellevoetsluis to Paramaribo.Steamship Curaçao http://www.vrcurassow.com/2dvrc/sscuracao/sscuracao.html 2011-02-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20101224202256/http://vrcurassow.com/2dvrc/sscuracao/sscuracao.html 2010-12-24 live May 25 – Romanian inventor Petrache Poenaru is granted a French patent for a fountain pen. June 4 – French inventor Joseph Niépce sends a package to Louis Daguerre revealing the existence of his invention, "heliography", where an image can be reproduced onto a pewter plate and then reprinted."A Photo-engraving of 1826". The Process Photogram and Illustrator (January 1905). p. 82. c. July – Robert Wilson of Dunbar in Scotland demonstrates a screw propeller. Scottish farmer's son Rev. Patrick Bell produces a model reaping machine.The Reverend Patrick Bell http://iainthepict.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/reverend-patrick-bell.html On this day in Scotland 2011-04-22 2016-03-10 Completion of Ozimek Suspension Bridge in Poland, designed by Karl Schottelius, possibly the oldest surviving wrought iron suspension bridge in continental Europe. Jacob Perkins introduces the uniflow steam engine to the United Kingdom.H. W. Dickinson A Short History of the Steam Engine Cambridge University Press 1938 Zoology John James Audubon begins publication of The Birds of America in the United Kingdom. Three giraffes, the first to be seen in Europe for over three centuries, are presented by the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, Mehmet Ali Pasha. Zarafa is presented to King Charles X of France in Paris on 9 July having walked from Marseille (landed 31 October 1826). The others are presented to King George IV of the United Kingdom in London and the Austrian Emperor Francis I in Vienna.Allin Michael Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris 1999 Delta Books 0-385-33411-7 Institutions Royal Institute of Technology (originally named 'Technological Institute') founded in Stockholm, Sweden. Awards Copley Medal: William Prout; Henry FosterCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopædia Britannica 22 July 2020 Births January 13 (O.S. January 1) – Nikolay Beketov (died 1911), Russian chemist. January 7 – Sandford Fleming (died 1915), Scottish-born Canadian engineer and surveyor known as the "father of time zones". April 5 – Joseph Lister (died 1912), British inventor of antiseptic. May 31 – Kusumoto Ine (born Shiimoto Ine, died 1903), pioneering Japanese woman physician. August 27 – Henry Edwards (died 1891), English-born entomologist and actor. November 30 – George Jackson Mivart (died 1900), English biologist. December 29 – Bernhard Sigmund Schultze (died 1919), German obstetrician. Henry Gray (died 1861), English anatomist. Deaths March 5 Pierre-Simon Laplace (born 1749), French mathematician. Alessandro Volta (born 1745), Italian physicist. April 3 – Ernst Chladni (born 1756), German physicist. April 12 – Michele Troja (born 1747), Italian physicianfr A. von Schoenberg, Biographie de Michel Troja, Dr et professeur in Bulletin universel des sciences et de l'industrie: Bulletin des sciences médicales https://archive.org/details/bulletinunivers33unkngoog 13 February 2021 1831 Bureau du Bulletin 226– July 14 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel (born 1788), French physicist. References Category:19th century in science Category:1820s in science