1816 in science

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The year 1816 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Mathematics

René Laennec invents the stethoscope.^[2]
Caleb Parry publishes An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature, Cause and Varieties of the Arterial Pulse, describing the mechanisms for the pulse.^[3]

Johann Fischer von Waldheim publishes Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite in Moscow, the first scientific treatise on the mineral turquoise.

The Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill, a temporary iron-wire footbridge erected across the Schuylkill River, north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the first wire-cable suspension bridge in history.^[4]
Johann Nepomuk Maelzel begins production of the metronome with a scale.^[5]
Rev. Robert Stirling obtains a patent in the United Kingdom for the Stirling hot air engine.
approx. date - Simeon North in New England produces a practicable milling machine for working metal.^[6]

^ Philosophical Magazine 47: 385-6. 1816.
^ Laennec, R. T. H. (1819). "preface". De l’Auscultation Médiate ou Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur. Paris: Brosson & Chaudé.
^ "Parry, Caleb Hillier". Whonamedit?. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/397.html. Retrieved 2011-02-27.
^ Peterson, Charles E. (22 March 1986). "The Spider Bridge: a curious work at the Falls of Schuylkill, 1816". Canal History and Technology Proceedings 5: 243–59.
^ Willems, J. de Vos (1830). "The Metronome". The Harmonicon 8. http://books.google.com/books?id=HugqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA17. Retrieved 2011-05-18.
^ Muir, Diana. Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England. ISBN 978-0874519099.