1757 in science
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The year 1757 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Benjamin Franklin invents a three-wheel clock movement, which later leads to several variants in the design of pendulum clocks.
[edit] Astronomy
- Tobias Mayer presents accurate tables of the Moon's motion to the Board of Longitude.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
- August 9 - Thomas Telford, engineer (died 1834)
- George Vancouver, explorer (died 1798)
[edit] Deaths
- August 28 - David Hartley, English physician and psychologist (born 1705)
- October 17 - Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, French physicist (born 1683)
