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Overview of the events of 1849 in science
The year
1849 in
science
and
technology
involved some significant events, listed below.
Astronomy
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- Edouard Roche
finds the limiting radius of tidal destruction and tidal creation for a body held together only by its self gravity, called the
Roche limit
, and uses it to explain why
Saturn
's rings do not condense into a satellite.
Biology
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Chemistry
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Mathematics
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Medicine
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Physics
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Technology
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- March 10 ?
George Henry Corliss
is granted a
United States
patent
for the
rotary valve
Corliss steam engine
.
- April 10 ?
Walter Hunt
is granted a United States patent for the modern
safety pin
.
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- May 22 ?
Abraham Lincoln's patent
:
Abraham Lincoln
is granted a United States patent for a buoyancy mechanism to lift boats over river shoals, the only patent ever granted to a
President of the United States
.
[7]
- June 12 ?
Lewis Haslett
is granted the first United States patent for a form of
gas mask
.
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- June 20 ? First
tube
of
Robert Stephenson
's
Britannia Bridge
is floated into position on the
Menai Strait
for the
Chester and Holyhead Railway
's
North Wales Coast Line
with many leading British railway civil engineers present.
[9]
- Completion of
Wheeling Suspension Bridge
over the
Ohio River
at
Wheeling, West Virginia
, designed by
Charles Ellet
, with a world record main span (at this date) of 1,010 ft (310 m) tower to tower.
- Completion of
Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct
, a wire suspension bridge carrying the
Delaware and Hudson Canal
over the
Delaware River
between
Minisink Ford, New York
, and
Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania
, designed by Russell F. Lord and
John A. Roebling
with a span of 535 ft (175 m).
- Eugene Bourdon patents the Bourdon gauge for
pressure measurement
in France.
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- David Brewster
perfects the
stereoscope
.
- Erastus Biglow first applies power to a
carpet
weaving
loom
, in the United States.
- James B. Francis
develops the radial flow
Francis turbine
.
Awards
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Births
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- March 7 ?
Luther Burbank
(died
1926
),
American
plant breeder
.
- March 17 ?
Cornelia Clapp
(died
1934
),, American marine biologist.
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- April 19 ?
John Uri Lloyd
(died
1936
), American pharmacist and science fiction author.
- April 25 ?
Felix Klein
(died
1925
),
German
mathematician
.
- May 25 ?
Louise Hammarstrom
(died
1917
), Swedish
chemist
.
- May 26 ?
Ernst Remak
(died
1911
), German
neurologist
.
- July 12 ?
William Osler
(died
1919
),
Canadian
physician
.
- July 27 ?
John Hopkinson
(died
1898
),
English
electrical engineer
.
- September 14 ?
Ivan Pavlov
(died
1936
),
Russian
physiologist
.
- October 26 ?
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius
(died
1917
), German mathematician.
Deaths
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References
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Berthold, A. A. (1849). "Transplantation der Hoden".
Arch. Anat. Physiol. Wiss. Med
.
16
: 42?6.
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Petrunkevitch, Alexander (1920). "Russia's Contribution to Science".
Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences
.
23
: 232.
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"History of Chirality"
. Stheno Corporation. 2006. Archived from
the original
on 2007-03-07
. Retrieved
2007-03-12
.
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Hempel, Sandra (2006).
The Medical Detective: John Snow and the mystery of cholera
. London: Granta Books.
ISBN
9781862078420
.
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"Walter Hunt... Dress-Pin: Specification of Letters Patent No. 6,281"
. United States Patent and Trademark Office. 1849-04-10
. Retrieved
2011-12-05
.
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"Walter Hunt"
. National Inventors Hall of Fame. 2002. Archived from
the original
on 2011-08-05
. Retrieved
2011-12-05
.
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"Letters Patent No. 6,469"
.
Google Patents
. Retrieved
2011-12-29
.
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US 6529
"Inhaler or Lung Protector".
Christianson, Scott
(2010).
Fatal Airs: The Deadly History and Apocalyptic Future of Lethal Gases that Threaten Our World
. ABC-CLIO.
ISBN
9780313385520
.
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"Britannia Bridge"
.
Engineering Timelines
. Retrieved
2014-06-10
.
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Bellis, Mary.
"Bourdon Tube Pressure Gauge"
.
Inventors
. About.com. Archived from
the original
on January 19, 2014
. Retrieved
2014-01-19
.
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"Copley Medal | British scientific award"
.
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
23 July
2020
.
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Reynolds, Moira Davison (2004).
American Women Scientists: 23 Inspiring Biographies, 1900-2000
. Jefferson NC: McFarland. p. 5.
ISBN
978-0-78642-161-9
.
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Constantin von Wurzbach, ed. (1874).
BLKO:Rusconi, Maurus
(in German). Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich – via
Wikisource
.
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