1816 in science

none 1816 science 1816 The year 1816 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Botany Botanic Gardens, Sydney, established in Australia. Chemistry Veuve Clicquot invents the riddling table process to clarify champagne. Mathematics John Farey notes the Farey sequence.Philosophical Magazine 47: 385–86. 1816. Medicine René Laennec invents the stethoscope.R. T. H. Laennec De l’Auscultation Médiate ou Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur Paris Brosson & Chaudé 1819 preface Caleb Parry publishes An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature, Cause and Varieties of the Arterial Pulse, describing the mechanisms for the pulse.Parry, Caleb Hillier http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/397.html Whonamedit? 2011-02-27 2015-10-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20151030120811/http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/397.html dead Mineralogy Johann Fischer von Waldheim publishes Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite in Moscow, the first scientific treatise on the mineral turquoise. Physics Sir David Brewster (1781–1868) discovers stress birefringence. Technology January 9 – Sir Humphry Davy's Davy lamp is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp at Hebburn Colliery in north east England.Thompson Roy Thunder underground: Northumberland mining disasters, 1815-1865 https://books.google.com/books?id=u6sgAQAAIAAJ 2013-01-08 2004 Landmark Ashbourne 9781843061694 121 The Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill, a temporary iron-wire footbridge erected across the Schuylkill River, north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the first wire-cable suspension bridge in history.Peterson Charles E. The Spider Bridge: a curious work at the Falls of Schuylkill, 1816 Canal History and Technology Proceedings 5 22 March 1986 243–59 Johann Nepomuk Maelzel begins production of the metronome with a scale.J. de Vos Willems https://books.google.com/books?id=HugqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17 The Metronome The Harmonicon 8 1830 2011-05-18 Rev. Robert Stirling obtains a patent in the United Kingdom for the Stirling hot air engine. English inventor Francis Ronalds demonstrates the practicability of the electric telegraph but it is rejected as "wholly unnecessary" at this time.Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph and of some other Electrical Apparatus https://archive.org/details/descriptionsane00ronagoog Ronalds Francis Hunter 1823 LondonRonalds, Beverley Frances. Sir Francis Ronalds: Father Of The Electric Telegraph. World Scientific, 2016. p. 142. 1783269197. Ronalds B. F. 2016 Sir Francis Ronalds and the Electric Telegraph International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology 86 42–55 10.1080/17581206.2015.1119481 113256632https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201708/physicshistory.cfm 2020-08-03 This Month in Physics History August 5, 1816: Sir Francis Ronalds' telegraph design rejected American Physical Society approx. date – Simeon North in New England produces a practicable milling machine for working metal.Diana Muir Diana Muir Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England Lebanon, New Hampshire University Press of New England 978-0-87451-909-9 Awards Copley Medal: Not awardedCopley Medal British scientific award https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal Encyclopedia Britannica 21 July 2020 en Births January 2 – Anastasie Fătu, Moldavian and Romanian physician and naturalist (died 1886) July 7 – Rudolf Wolf, Swiss astronomer (died 1893) July 20 – Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, English ophthalmologist, histologist and anatomist (died 1892) December 13 – Werner Siemens, German electrical engineer (died 1892) Deaths January 2 – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, French chemist (born 1737) April 7 – Christian Konrad Sprengel, German botanist (born 1750) September 18 – Bernard McMahon, Irish American horticulturalist (born c. 1775) September 28 – Edward Howard, English chemist (born 1774) December 15 – Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, English engineer (born 1753) References Category:19th century in science Category:1810s in science