1847 in science

none 1847 science 1847 The year 1847 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy July 1 – German amateur astronomer Karl Ludwig Hencke discovers asteroid 6 Hebe from Driesen. August 13 – English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers asteroid 7 Iris from London. October 18 – J. R. Hind discovers asteroid 8 Flora from London. October 1 – American astronomer Maria Mitchell discovers comet C/1847 T1; it is independently discovered two days later by Francesco de Vico from Rome. A new edition of the astrometric star catalogue Histoire céleste française is published, from which the Lalande star reference numbers which continue in use are derived.A catalogue of those stars in the Histoire céleste française of J. De Lalande for which tables of reduction to the session define format EPOCH1 = 1800 have been published by Professor Schumacher Baily F. British Association for the Advancement of Science London 1847 Chemistry Nitroglycerin, at first called pyroglycerine, first synthesized by Ascanio Sobrero. Hermann Kolbe obtains acetic acid from completely inorganic sources, further disproving vitalism.Kolbe, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences 100 Distinguished European Chemists 2005 http://www.euchems.org/Distinguished/19thCentury/kolbeadolph.asp 2007-03-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20081011092124/http://www.euchems.org/Distinguished/19thCentury/kolbeadolph.asp 2008-10-11 J. S. Fry & Sons of Bristol (England) produce a moulded chocolate bar.The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets 157 Oxford University Press 2015 Earth sciences October – Last volcanic eruption of Mount Guntur in West Java. Mathematics George Boole formalizes symbolic logic in the pamphlet The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (published in Cambridge), defining what is now called Boolean algebra. Johann Benedict Listing publishes Vorstudien zur Topologie in Göttingen, first introducing the term Topology in print.Reprint.O'Connor, John J. Robertson, Edmund F. Edmund F. Robertson MacTutor History of Mathematics archive University of St Andrews Johann Benedict Listing http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Listing.html 2000 2011-10-15 Medicine January 1 – Britain's first Medical Officer of Health is appointed, Dr. William Henry Duncan in Liverpool.Halliday S. Duncan of Liverpool: Britain's first Medical Officer Journal of Medical Biography 11 3 142–149 2003 12870037 10.1177/096777200301100307 21967666 November 4–8 – James Young Simpson discovers the anesthetic properties of chloroform and first uses it, successfully, on a patient, in an obstetric case in Edinburgh.First communicated to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, November 10, and published in a pamphlet, Notice of a New Anæsthetic Agent, in Edinburgh, November 12.Gordon H. Laing Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811–1870) https://books.google.com/books?id=pYer05UwKBYC 2011-11-11 2002 Minerva Group, Inc 978-1-4102-0291-8 Émile Küss and Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot perform the first recorded biopsies on neoplasms. Ignaz Semmelweis studies and prevents the transmission of puerperal fever. The journal Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medicin is founded by Rudolf Virchow and Benno Reinhardt. Joseph-François Malgaigne publishes Traité des fractures et des luxations in Paris. Physics Hermann von Helmholtz formally states the law of conservation of energy. Technology January 27 – Institution of Mechanical Engineers founded in the Queen's Hotel next to Curzon Street railway station in Birmingham, England, by George Stephenson and others.Cragg Roger Civil Engineering Heritage: Wales and West Central England 2nd 1997 London Thomas Telford 0-7277-2576-9 194 May 24 – The Dee bridge disaster: a cast iron girder bridge across the river Dee at Chester, England, designed by Robert Stephenson for the Chester and Holyhead Railway, collapses under a Shrewsbury and Chester Railway train with five fatalities.Lewis, Peter R. Disaster on the Dee: Robert Stephenson's Nemesis of 1847 Tempus Publishing Stroud 2007 978-0-7524-4266-2 July 24 – Richard March Hoe patents a rotary printing press in the United States.#5199. Improvement in Rotary Printing-Presses https://patents.google.com/patent/US5199 Squire Whipple publishes A Work on Bridge Building in the United States. Zoology August 18 – American missionary Thomas S. Savage and anatomist Jeffries Wyman first describe the great ape species Troglodytes gorilla, known in modern times as the western gorilla, to the Boston Society of Natural History.Savage Thomas S. 1847 https://books.google.com/books?id=0Hpbwjpr58AC&dq=Communication+describing+the+external+character+and+habits+of+a+new+species+of+Troglodytes+(T.+gorilla).&pg=PA245 Communication describing the external character and habits of a new species of Troglodytes (T. gorilla, Savage) Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2 245–247 2015-11-07Savage Thomas S. Wyman Jeffries 1847 https://books.google.com/books?id=crgrAAAAYAAJ&dq=Notice+of+the+external+characters+and+habits+of+Troglodytes+gorilla,+a+new+species+of+orang+from+the+Gaboon+River,+osteology+of+the+same.&pg=PA417 Notice of the external characters and habits of Troglodytes gorilla, a new species of orang from the Gaboon River; Osteology of the same Boston Journal of Natural History 5 4 417–443 2015-11-07Conniff Richard Discovering gorilla Evolutionary Anthropology 18 2 2009 55–61 10.1002/evan.20203 221732306 Awards Copley Medal: John Herschel.Copley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 23 July 2020 en Wollaston Medal for Geology: Ami Boué. Births January 21 – Joseph Le Bel, French stereochemist (died 1930) February 11 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (died 1931) March 3 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (died 1922) March 25 – Fernand Lataste, French zoologist (died 1934) May 1 – Hildegard Björck, Swedish-born pioneer of women's medical education (died 1920) September 8 – Abraham Groves, Canadian surgeon (died 1935) September 11 – Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (died 1921)Robert McHenry Liberty's Women Springfield G. & C. Merriam 1980 442 978-0-87779-064-8 Sydney Mary Thompson, Irish-born geologist and botanist (died 1923) Deaths March 9 – Mary Anning, English paleontologist (born 1799) April 9 – Filip Neriusz Walter, Polish organic chemist (born 1810) June 7 – David Mushet, Scottish-born metallurgist (born 1772) September 3 – Simon Goodrich, English-born mechanical engineer (born 1773) October 3 – Charles Hatchett, English chemist (born 1765) November 11 – Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach, German plastic surgeon (born 1792) December 7 – Robert Liston, Scottish-born surgeon (born 1794) References Category:19th century in science Category:1840s in science