1510 in science
The year 1510 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.
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Medicine
- 1510 Influenza pandemic - Summer – First known influenza pandemic, originating in Asia.[1]
Technology
- Peter Henlein makes the first modern mechanical clock.[2]
Births
- October 6 – John Caius, English physician and benefactor (died 1573)[3]
- Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia, Sicilian anatomist (died 1580).
- Bernard Palissy, French ceramicist and hydraulic engineer (died c. 1589).
- 'Denis Zachaire', French alchemist (died 1556)
- approx. date
- Ambroise Paré, French surgeon (died 1590).
- Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Spanish conquistador (died 1554)
Deaths
- February 28 – Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (born c. 1460).
gollark: Apparently the patent expired now, vaguely relatedly.
gollark: It's not the same as actually developing the entire standard, but it's something I guess.
gollark: > In the early 1990s, O'Sullivan led a team at the CSIRO which patented, in 1996, the use of a related technique for reducing multipath interference of radio signals transmitted for computer networking. This technology is a part of all recent WiFi implementationsAh, so they contributed somewhat to WiFi.
gollark: CSIRO, that is.
gollark: It says that they came up with some sort of Fourier-transform-based thing used in the signalling?
References
- "NIH Scientists Explore 1510 Influenza Pandemic and Lessons Learned". National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 2010-11-12. Archived from the original on 27 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
- Clock and Watch History historyofwatch.com.
- "John Caius | British physician". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
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