1842 in science
The year 1842 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Botany
Exploration
Medicine
Paleontology
Physics
Technology
Events
Awards
Births
- February 2 – Julian Sochocki (died 1927), mathematician.
- February 22 – Camille Flammarion (died 1925), astronomer.
- March 17 – Rosina Heikel (died 1929), physician.
- May 7 – Isala Van Diest (died 1916), Belgian physician.
- May 8 – Emil Christian Hansen (died 1909), fermentation physiologist.
- June 11 – Carl von Linde (died 1934), refrigeration engineer.
- August 23 – Osborne Reynolds (died 1912), physicist.
- September 9 – Elliott Coues (died 1899), ornithologist.
- September 20
- October 17 – Gustaf Retzius (died 1919), anatomist.
- October 24 (O.S. October 12) – Nikolai Menshutkin (died 1907), chemist.
- November 12 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (died 1919), Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
- December 3 – Ellen Swallow Richards (d. 1911), American chemist.
- December 17 – Sophus Lie (died 1899), mathematician.
Deaths
References
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- ↑ Long, C. W. (1849). "An account of the first use of Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation as an Anæsthetic in Surgical Operations". Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. 5: 705–13. Retrieved 2012-06-12.
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- ↑ Presented to the Royal Society of London.
- ↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1840–1860". Archived from the original on 2007-08-17. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ↑ Owen, R. (1842). "Report on British Fossil Reptiles." Part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Plymouth, England.
- ↑ "Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels – Versuch einer das Bradley'sche Theorem als integrirenden Theil in sich schliessenden allgemeineren Theorie" ("On the coloured light of the binary refracted stars and other celestial bodies – Attempt of a more general theory including Bradley's theorem as an integral part"). Abhandlungen der kaiserlichen bõhm. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Prag (Prague) V Folge 2. 25 May 1842.
- ↑ von Mayer, J. R. (1842). "Bemerkungen über die Kräfte der unbelebten Nature ("Remarks on the forces of inorganic nature")". Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. 43: 233–40. doi:10.1002/jlac.18420420212. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- ↑ "History of the university". TU Delft. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- ↑ "Vacuum & Sewing Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 12 December 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-29. See section: "Contributors to the invention of the sewing machine".
- ↑ Smiles, Samuel (1912). James Nasmyth Engineer: an Autobiography. John Murray. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
- ↑ Pugh, Adrian. "The Evolution Of Coffee Grinders - Peugeot Family Ties". Know Your Grinder. Retrieved 2015-10-21.