1709 in science

none 1709 science 1709 The year 1709 in science and technology involved some significant events. Meteorology January – Great Frost in Western Europe.https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126942.100-1709-the-year-that-europe-froze.html?full=true Pain Stephanie 1709: the year that Europe froze New Scientist 7 February 2009Luterbacher Jürg Dietrich Daniel Xoplaki Elena Grosjean Martin Wanner Heinz 2004 European Seasonal and Annual Temperature Variability, Trends, and Extremes Since 1500 Science 303 5663 1499–1503 10.1126/science.1093877 15001774 2004Sci...303.1499L Physics Francis Hauksbee publishes Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects, summarizing the results of his many experiments with electricity and other topics. Technology January 10 – Industrial Revolution: Abraham Darby I successfully produces cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdale blast furnace in Shropshire, England.Mott R. A. The earliest use of coke for ironmaking The Gas World, coking section supplement 145 7–18 5 January 1957Arthur Raistrick Dynasty of Ironfounders: the Darbys and Coalbrookdale London Longmans, Green 1953 34Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 292 https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/292 February 5 – Dramatist John Dennis devises the thundersheet as a new method of producing theatrical thunder for his tragedy Appius and Virginia at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.Nigel Rees Rees Nigel Why Do We Say ...? 1987 0-7137-1944-3 March 28 – Johann Friedrich Böttger reports the first production of hard-paste porcelain in Europe, at Dresden. July 13 – Johann Maria Farina founds Farina gegenüber, the first Eau de Cologne and perfume factory in Cologne, Germany. August 8 – Hot air balloon of Bartholome de Gusmão flies in Portugal. A collapsible umbrella is introduced in Paris.The History of Umbrellas http://www.oakthriftumbrellas.com/pages/umbrellas4.htm Oakthrift Corporation 2011-12-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20130902053708/http://www.oakthriftumbrellas.com/pages/umbrellas4.htm 2013-09-02 dead Awards April 9 – Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet dies and in his will provides funding to the Royal Society for the annual Copley Medal honoring achievement in science (first awarded in 1731). Births February 24 – Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer and inventor (died 1782) March 3 – Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, German chemist (died 1782) March 10 – Georg Steller, German naturalist (died 1746) April 17 – Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (died 1788) July 11 – Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (died 1785) August 8 – Johann Georg Gmelin, German botanist (died 1755) November 23 – Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher (died 1751) Deaths early – Eleanor Glanville, English entomologist (born c. 1654) June 29 – Antoine Thomas, Belgian Jesuit astronomer in China (born 1644) June 30 – Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist (born 1660) October 17 – François Mauriceau, French obstetrician (born 1637) References Category:18th century in science Category:1700s in science