1833 in science

The year 1833 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

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Astronomy

• November 12–13 – A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed over Alabama.

Biology

• May 3 – The Entomological Society of London is inaugurated.
• Katherine Sophia Kane's The Irish Flora is published anonymously.

Chemistry

• Thomas Graham proposes Graham's Law.

Computer science

• June 5 – Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville.[1]

Geophysics

• November 25 – A major 8.7 earthquake strikes Sumatra.

Mathematics

• probable date – Paul Gerwien proves the Bolyai–Gerwien theorem formulated by Farkas Bolyai: that any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable.

Paleontology

• Henry Witham publishes The Internal Structure of Fossil Vegetables found in the Carboniferous and Oolitic deposits of Great Britain in Edinburgh.

Physics

• Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber develop an electromagnetic telegraph at Göttingen.

Physiology and medicine

• William Beaumont publishes Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.
• Charles Bell publishes The Hand: its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design, the fourth Bridgewater Treatise.
• Marshall Hall coins the term "reflex" for a muscular reaction.
• Jean Lobstein proposes use of the term arteriosclerosis.[2]
• Johannes Peter Müller begins publication of his major physiology textbook Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen.
• Anselme Payen discovers diastase (the first enzyme identified).

Technology

• August 18 – The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.
• Obed Hussey patents a reaper in the United States.[3][4]
• Cornish engineer Adrian Stephens invents the steam whistle as a warning device at Dowlais Ironworks in Wales.[5][6]
• Publication by Charles Knight of The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge begins in London.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Not awarded[7]

Births

• January 19 – Alfred Clebsch (died 1872), German mathematician.
• February 26 – Georges Pouchet (died 1894), French comparative anatomist.
• March 14 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor (died 1910), American dentist.
• March 23 – Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (died 1890), German psychiatrist.
• March 25 – Fleeming Jenkin (died 1885), English electrical engineer.
• May 5 – Ferdinand von Richthofen (died 1905), German geographer.
• June 29 – Peter Waage (died 1900), Norwegian chemist.
• October 9 – Eugen Langen (died 1895), German mechanical engineer.
• October 17 – Paul Bert (died 1886), French physiologist.
• October 21 – Alfred Nobel (died 1896), Swedish inventor.
• December 2 – Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (died 1910), German pathologist.

Deaths

• January 10 – Adrien-Marie Legendre (born 1752), mathematician.
• February 6
  • Fausto Elhuyar (born 1755), chemist
  • Pierre André Latreille (born 1762), zoologist.
• February 14 – Gottlieb Kirchhoff (born 1764), chemist.
• April 22 – Richard Trevithick (born 1771), engineer and inventor.
• May 15 – Bewick Bridge (born 1767), mathematician.
• July 5 – Nicéphore Niépce (born 1765), inventor.
• October 31 – Johann Friedrich Meckel (born 1781), anatomist.

References

1. Hyman, Anthony (1982). Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer. Oxford University Press. pp. 177–8. ISBN 978-0-19-858170-3.
2. Tedgui, Alain; Mallat, Ziad (2006). "Cytokines in Atherosclerosis". Physiological Reviews. American Physiological Society. 86: 515–581. doi:10.1152/physrev.00024.2005. PMID 16601268. Archived from the original on 2013-07-13. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
3. "Obed Hussey". Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History. 2005-07-01. Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
4. Greeno, Follett L., ed. (1912). Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap. Archived from the original on 2013-01-19. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
5. "Adrian Stephens". Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
6. Lee, Charles E. (1949). "Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle". Transactions of the Newcomen Society. 27: 163–73.
7. "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 July 2020.