1842 in science
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The year 1842 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Physics
- Christian Doppler proposes the Doppler effect.[1]
- Julius Robert von Mayer proposes that work and heat are equivalent.[2] This is also independently discovered by James Prescott Joule, who named it "mechanical equivalent of heat" (see 1843 in science).
[edit] Paleontology
- Palaeontologist Richard Owen coins the name Dinosauria, hence the Anglicized dinosaur.[3]
[edit] Technology
- February 21 - John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.[4]
- March 30 - Crawford Long performs the first surgical operation using anesthesia (diethyl ether).[5]
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- February 2 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski (d. 1927), mathematician.
- February 22 - Camille Flammarion (d. 1925), astronomer.
- May 8 - Emil Christian Hansen (d. 1909), fermentation physiologist.
- August 23 - Osborne Reynolds (d. 1912), physicist.
- September 9 - Elliott Coues (d. 1899), ornithologist.
- September 20 - James Dewar (d. 1923), chemist.
- October 17 - Gustaf Retzius (d. 1919), anatomist.
- November 12 - John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (d. 1919), Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
- December 17 - Sophus Lie (d. 1899), mathematician.
[edit] Deaths
- February 15 - Archibald Menzies (b. 1754), botanist.
- April 28 - Charles Bell (b. 1774), anatomist.
- May 8 - Jules Dumont d'Urville (b. 1790), explorer.
- July 19 - Pierre Joseph Pelletier (b. 1788), chemist.
- August 18 - Louis de Freycinet (b. 1779), explored coastal regions of Western Australia.
[edit] References
- ^ Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einige andere Gestirne des Himmels - Versuch einer das Bradleysche 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)
- ^ von Mayer, J.R. (1842) "Remarks on the forces of inorganic nature" in Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, 43, 233
- ^ Owen, R. (1842). "Report on British Fossil Reptiles." Part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Plymouth, England.
- ^ Vacuum & Sewing Hall of Fame. Retrieved on 2007-12-29. See section "Contributors to the invention of the sewing machine".
- ^ Long, Tony (2007-03-30). March 30, 1842: It's Lights Out, Thanks to Ether. Wired.
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