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1816 in science

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The year 1816 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Botany

Chemistry

Mathematics

Medicine

  • René Laennec invents the stethoscope.{{cite book|first=R. T. H.|last=Laennec|title=De l’Auscultation Médiate ou Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur|location=Paris|publisher=Brosson & Chaudé|year=1819|chapter=preface}}
  • Caleb Parry publishes An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature, Cause and Varieties of the Arterial Pulse, describing the mechanisms for the pulse.{{cite web|title=Parry, Caleb Hillier|url=http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/397.html|work=Whonamedit?|accessdate=2011-02-27}}

Mineralogy

Physics

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.{{cite book|last=Thompson|first=Roy|title=Thunder underground: Northumberland mining disasters, 1815-1865|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6sgAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=2013-01-08|year=2004|publisher=Landmark|location=Ashbourne|isbn=9781843061694|page=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.{{cite journal|last=Peterson|first=Charles E.|title=The Spider Bridge: a curious work at the Falls of Schuylkill, 1816|journal=Canal History and Technology Proceedings|volume=5|date=22 March 1986|pages=243–59}}
  • Johann Nepomuk Maelzel begins production of the metronome with a scale.{{cite journal|first=J. de Vos|last=Willems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HugqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17|title=The Metronome|journal=The Harmonicon|volume=8|year=1830|accessdate=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.{{Cite book|title=Descriptions of an Electrical Telegraph and of some other Electrical Apparatus|url=https://archive.org/details/descriptionsane00ronagoog|last=Ronalds|first=Francis|publisher=Hunter|year=1823|location=London}}{{multiref|Ronalds, Beverley Frances. Sir Francis Ronalds: Father Of The Electric Telegraph. World Scientific, 2016. p. 142. {{ISBN|1783269197}}.|{{Cite journal|last=Ronalds|first=B. F.|year=2016|title=Sir Francis Ronalds and the Electric Telegraph|journal=International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology|volume=86|pages=42–55|doi=10.1080/17581206.2015.1119481|s2cid=113256632}}}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201708/physicshistory.cfm|access-date=2020-08-03|work=This Month in Physics History|title=August 5, 1816: Sir Francis Ronalds' telegraph design rejected|publisher=American Physical Society}}
  • approx. date – Simeon North in New England produces a practicable milling machine for working metal.{{cite book|authorlink=Diana Muir|first=Diana|last=Muir|title=Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England|location=Lebanon, New Hampshire|publisher=University Press of New England|isbn=978-0-87451-909-9}}

Awards

  • Copley Medal: Not awarded{{cite web |title=Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=21 July 2020 |language=en}}

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