1826 in science

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The year 1826 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy

• Mary Somerville presents a paper on "The Magnetic Properties of the Violet Rays of the Solar Spectrum" to the Royal Society in London.

Chemistry

• Antoine Jerome Balard isolates bromine.
• Michael Faraday determines the chemical formula of naphthalene.

Exploration

• May 22 – HMS Beagle departs on her first voyage from Plymouth for a hydrographic survey of the Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego regions of South America.
• Hyacinthe de Bougainville completes a three-year global circumnavigation.

Mathematics

• Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik is founded by August Leopold Crelle in Berlin.
• February – Nikolai Lobachevsky first presents his system of non-Euclidean hyperbolic geometry.

Physiology and medicine

• Johannes Peter Müller publishes his first important works, Zur vergleichenden Physiologie des Gesichtsinns ("On the comparative physiology of sight", Leipzig) and Über die phantastischen Gesichtserscheinungen ("On visual hallucination", Coblenz), making a first statement of the law of specific nerve energies.

Technology

• January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.^[1]
• April 1 – American inventor Samuel Morey patents a compressionless internal combustion engine in the United States.^[2][3][4]
• June – Nicéphore Niépce produces the first photograph, View from the Window at Le Gras.^[5]
• Benoit Fourneyron develops an efficient outward-flow water turbine.

Zoology

• Karl Ernst von Baer discovers the mammalian ovum.^[6][7][8]
• The Asiatic lion is first described.^[9]
• The Zoological Society of London is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

Awards

• Copley Medal: James South

Births

• May 26 – Richard Carrington (died 1875), English astronomer.
• June 26 – Morgan Crofton (died 1915), Irish mathematician.
• July 7 – John Fowler (died 1864), English agricultural engineer.
• July 13 – Stanislao Cannizzaro (died 1910), Italian chemist.
• September 17 – Bernhard Riemann (died 1866), German mathematician.

Deaths

• January 6 – John Farey (born 1766), geologist.
• June 7 – Joseph von Fraunhofer (born 1787), physicist.
• July 22 – Giuseppe Piazzi (born 1746), astronomer.
• October 25 – Philippe Pinel (born 1745), psychiatrist.
• November 23 – Johann Elert Bode (born 1747), astronomer.

References

1. Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.
2. X4,378 Gas Or Vapor Engine
3. Hardenberg, Horst O. (1992). Samuel Morey and his atmospheric engine. SP-922. Warrendale, Pa.: Society of Automotive Engineers. ISBN 1-56091-240-5.
4. Maurer, Leon. "The Unsolved Mystery of Samuel Morey". Retrieved 2013-11-01.
5. "The First Photograph". Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2013-11-01.
6. Reported as "Ovi Mammalium et Hominis genesi" to the The Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg in 1827 (published at Leipzig).
7. Petrunkevitch, Alexander (1920). "Russia’s Contribution to Science". Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 23: 236.
8. "Биография Бэр Карл Максимович". AllPersona.Ru. Archived from the original on 2008-03-19. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
9. As Felis leo persicus. Meyer, Johann Nepomuk. Dissertatio inauguralis anatomico-medica de genere felium. Doctoral thesis, University of Vienna.