1833 in science

none 1833 science 1833 The year 1833 in science and technology involved several significant events, discoveries, and situations, listed below. Astronomy November 12–13 – A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed over Alabama. Biology May 3 – The Entomological Society of London is inaugurated. Katherine Sophia Kane's The Irish Flora is published anonymously. Chemistry Thomas Graham proposes Graham's law. Computer science June 5 – Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville.Anthony Hyman R. Anthony Hyman Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer Oxford University Press 1982 978-0-19-858170-3 177–8 Geophysics November 25 – A major 8.7 earthquake strikes Sumatra. Mathematics probable date – Paul Gerwien proves the Bolyai–Gerwien theorem formulated by Farkas Bolyai: that any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable. Paleontology Henry Witham publishes The Internal Structure of Fossil Vegetables found in the Carboniferous and Oolitic deposits of Great Britain in Edinburgh. Physics Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber develop an electromagnetic telegraph at Göttingen. Physiology and medicine William Beaumont publishes Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. Charles Bell publishes The Hand: its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design, the fourth Bridgewater Treatise. Marshall Hall coins the term "reflex" for a muscular reaction. Jean Lobstein proposes use of the term arteriosclerosis.Alain Tedgui Ziad Mallat Cytokines in Atherosclerosis http://physrev.physiology.org/content/86/2/515.full Physiological Reviews American Physiological Society 2006 86 2 515–581 10.1152/physrev.00024.2005 2011-06-23 16601268 https://web.archive.org/web/20130713133753/http://physrev.physiology.org/content/86/2/515.full 2013-07-13 live subscription Johannes Peter Müller begins publication of his major physiology textbook Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen. Anselme Payen discovers diastase (the first enzyme identified). Technology August 18 – The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England. Obed Hussey patents a reaper in the United States.Obed Hussey Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=175 2005-07-01 2011-05-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20110622032502/http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=175 22 June 2011 liveObed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap Greeno, Follett L. 1912 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19547/19547-h/19547-h.htm 2011-05-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20130119041803/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19547/19547-h/19547-h.htm 2013-01-19 live Cornish engineer Adrian Stephens invents the steam whistle as a warning device at Dowlais Ironworks in Wales.http://www.trevor.jones4.btinternet.co.uk/Heroes/AdrianStephens.html Adrian Stephens 2012-06-22 https://web.archive.org/web/20121012000850/http://www.trevor.jones4.btinternet.co.uk/Heroes/AdrianStephens.html 2012-10-12 dead Charles E. Lee Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle Transactions of the Newcomen Society 27 1949 163–73 10.1179/tns.1949.015 Publication by Charles Knight of The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge begins in London. Awards Copley Medal: Not awardedCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 22 July 2020 en Births January 19 – Alfred Clebsch (died 1872), German mathematician. February 26 – Georges Pouchet (died 1894), French comparative anatomist. March 14 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor (died 1910), American dentist. March 23 – Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (died 1890), German psychiatrist. March 25 – Fleeming Jenkin (died 1885), English electrical engineer. May 5 – Ferdinand von Richthofen (died 1905), German geographer. June 29 – Peter Waage (died 1900), Norwegian chemist. October 9 – Eugen Langen (died 1895), German mechanical engineer. October 17 – Paul Bert (died 1886), French physiologist. October 21 – Alfred Nobel (died 1896), Swedish inventor. November 27 - Émile Vallin (died 1924), French military physician.fr https://cths.fr/an/savant.php?id=4897# Vallin Émile Arthur L. Vaillard Agathe Floderer Alexandre Wauthier cths.fr Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques 11 February 2021 December 2 – Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (died 1910), German pathologist. Deaths January 10 – Adrien-Marie Legendre (born 1752), mathematician. February 6 Fausto Elhuyar (born 1755), chemist Pierre André Latreille (born 1762), zoologist. February 14 – Gottlieb Kirchhoff (born 1764), chemist. April 22 – Richard Trevithick (born 1771), engineer and inventor. May 15 – Bewick Bridge (born 1767), mathematician. July 5 – Nicéphore Niépce (born 1765), inventor. October 31 – Johann Friedrich Meckel (born 1781), anatomist. References Category:19th century in science Category:1830s in science