1779 in science

none 1779 science December 2022 1779 The year 1779 in science and technology involved some significant events. Astronomy March 23 – Edward Pigott discovers the Black Eye Galaxy (M64). May 5 – The spiral galaxy M61 is discovered in the constellation Virgo by Barnabus Oriani. Exploration Horace-Bénédict de Saussure begins publication of Voyages dans les Alpes. Mathematics Étienne Bézout publishes Théorie générale des équations algébriques in Paris, containing original work on elimination theory. Physics Jean-Paul Marat publishes Découvertes de M. Marat sur le feu, l'électricité et la lumière (Discoveries of Mr Marat on Fire, Electricity and Light). Technology January 8 – Bryan Higgins is granted a British patent for hydraulic cement (stucco) for use as an exterior plaster.David Knight Higgins, Bryan (c. 1741–1818) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13228 2011-06-20 10.1093/ref:odnb/13228 May – Boulton and Watt's Smethwick Engine is brought into service for pumping on the Birmingham Canal Navigations; two centuries later it will become the oldest working steam engine in the world. James Pickard first applies a crank and flywheel to a Newcomen atmospheric engine to produce circular motion. The Iron Bridge is erected across the River Severn in Shropshire, England; the first all-cast-iron bridge ever built.http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800 Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800 2007-08-27 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164134/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1750-1800 2007-08-17 It will open to traffic on January 1, 1781.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/333 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 333–334 The spinning mule is perfected by the Lancashire inventor Samuel Crompton. The British Royal Navy adopts the carronade. The Girandoni Air Rifle is designed in Austria. Births January 5 – General Zebulon Pike, American explorer (died 1813) May 1 – Alexander Morison, Scottish physician and psychiatrist (died 1866) August 7 Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist (died 1848) Louis de Freycinet, French explorer of coastal regions of Western Australia (died 1842) Deaths January 22 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (born 1733) February 14 – James Cook, English explorer (born 1728) April 11 – Joseph de Jussieu, French botanist (born 1704) June 28 – Martha Daniell Logan, American botanist (born 1704) October 18 – Patrick d'Arcy, Irish-born mathematician (born 1725) November 16 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish botanist (born 1716) undated – John Kay, English inventor (born 1704) References Category:18th century in science Category:1770s in science