1812 in science
The year 1812 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- February 27 - Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
- March 15 - Luddites attack wool processing factory of Frank Vickerman in West Yorkshire.
- May 25 - Felling mine disaster: Mine explosion at Felling colliery near Jarrow, England - 96 dead.
- August - Henry Bell's PS Comet begins a passenger service on the River Clyde in Scotland, the first commercially successful steamboat service in Europe.[6]
- August 12 - The Middleton Railway, serving coal pits at Leeds in England, becomes the first to use steam locomotives successfully in regular service. The first locomotive, Salamanca, is also the first to use two cylinders and has a rack railway mechanism devised by John Blenkinsop and built by Matthew Murray.[7]
- August 19 - War of 1812: USS Constitution defeats the British frigate Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia. British shot is said to have bounced off Constitution's sides, earning her the nickname "Old Ironsides".
- Philippe Girard invents a flax-spinning machine.[8]
- The Old Oscar Pepper Distillery (now the Labrot & Graham Distillery), the oldest Kentucky Bourbon distillery, is established along Glenn's Creek in Woodford County, Kentucky.
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References
- ^ Davy, John (6 February 1812). "On a gaseous Compound of carbonic Oxide and Chlorine". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) 102: 144–151. doi:10.1098/rstl.1812.0008. JSTOR 107310. http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/102/144. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
- ^ Campion, E. et al. (2010). "The Journal from 1812 to 1989". The New England Journal of Medicine 363: 1175–1176.
- ^ Parkinson, J.; J. (1812). "Case of diseased appendix vermiformis". Medico-Chirurgical Transactions 3: 57.
- ^ Hellemans, Alexander; Bunch, Bryan (1988). The Timetables of Science. Simon & Schuster. pp. 261. ISBN 0671621300.
- ^ von Sömmerring, S. T. (1812). "Über einen Ornithocephalus oder über das unbekannten Thier der Vorwelt, dessen Fossiles Gerippe Collini im 5. Bande der Actorum Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae nebst einer Abbildung in natürlicher Grösse im Jahre 1784 beschrieb, und welches Gerippe sich gegenwärtig in der Naturalien-Sammlung der königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München befindet". Denkschriften der königlichen bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-physikalische Classe (München) 3: 89–158.
- ^ McCrorie, Ian (1986). Clyde Pleasure Steamers. Greenock: Orr, Pollock & Co. Ltd. ISBN 1-869850-00-9.
- ^ Bushell, J. (1975). The World’s Oldest Railway: a history of the Middleton Railway. Sheffield: Turntable Publications. ISBN 0-902844-27-X.
- ^ Grun, Bernard (1991). "1812". The Timetables of History (3rd ed.). New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 381. ISBN 0-671-74919-6.