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The year 1836 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Astronomy
- May 15 - Francis Baily, during an eclipse of the sun, observes the phenomenon named after him as Baily's beads.
Biology
- October 2 - Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England, aboard HMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
- Theodor Schwann discovers pepsin in extracts from the stomach lining, the first isolation of an animal enzyme.
Chemistry
- French chemist Auguste Laurent discovers o-phthalic acid (1,2-benzenecarboxylic acid) by oxidizing naphthalene tetrachloride.
- The chemical compound acetylene, also called ethyne, is discovered by Edmund Davy.
- James Marsh publishes the Marsh test for the presence of arsenic.[1]
- October 24 - The earliest United States patent for a phosphorus friction match is granted to Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Medicine
- October 13 - Theodor Fliedner, a Lutheran minister, and Friederike, his wife, open the Deaconess Home and Hospital at Kaiserswerth, Germany, as an institute to train women in nursing.
Physics
- Nicholas Callan invents the first induction coil.[2][3][4]
- Andrew Crosse's electrical experiment seems to produce strange insects, acarus calvanicus.
Technology
- February 25 - Samuel Colt receives a United States patent for the Colt revolver, the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
- James Nasmyth invents the shaper.[5]
Awards
Births
- May 17 - Norman Lockyer (died 1920), astronomer.
- May 28 - Alexander Mitscherlich (died 1918), chemist.
- June 9 - Elizabeth Garrett (died 1917), physician.
- July 20 - Thomas Clifford Allbutt (died 1925), physician.
Deaths
- June 10 - André-Marie Ampère (born 1775), physicist.
- September 9 - William Henry (born 1774), chemist (suicide).
- September 17 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (born 1748), botanist.
References
- ^ Marsh, J. (1836). "Account of a method of separating small quantities of arsenic from substances with which it may be mixed". Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 21: 229–236.
- ^ Callan, N. J. (December 1836). page 477 "On a new Galvanic battery". Philosophical Magazine 3:9: 472–478. http://books.google.com/books?id=c5IOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA477&lpg=PA477#v=onepage&q&f=false page 477.
- ^ Callan, N. J. (April 1837). "A description of an electromagnetic repeater, or of a machine by which the connection between the voltaic battery and the helix of an electromagnet may be broken and renewed several thousand times in the space of one minute". Annals of Electricity (Sturgeon) 1: 229–230. http://books.google.com/books?id=SXgMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- ^ Czarnik, Stanley A. (March 1992). "The classic induction coil". Popular Electronics. http://www.sentex.net/~mec1995/circ/hv/classic/classic.html.
- ^ Smiles, Samuel (1912). James Nasmyth Engineer: an Autobiography. John Murray. http://www.archive.org/details/jamesnasmythengi00nasmiala. Retrieved 2009-11-14.
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