1824 in science

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The year 1824 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Events 2 Astronomy 3 Biology 4 Mathematics 5 Paleontology 6 Technology 7 Awards 8 Births 9 Deaths 10 References

Events

• January 8 - After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society with only one vote against him.

Astronomy

• Franz von Gruithuisen explains the formation of craters on the Moon as a result of meteorite impacts.^[1]
• William Pearson publishes An Introduction to Practical Astronomy.

Biology

• John Curtis begins publication of British Entomology - being illustrations and descriptions of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland in London.
• Thomas Say begins publication of American Entomology, or Descriptions of the Insects of North America in Philadelphia.

Mathematics

• Niels Henrik Abel partially proves that the general quintic or higher equations cannot be solved by a general formula involving only arithmetical operations and roots.^[2]
• Augustin Louis Cauchy proves convergence of the Euler method, using the implicit Euler method.

Paleontology

• The Rev. Professor William Buckland becomes the first person to describe a dinosaur in a scientific journal.^[3]

Technology

• October 21 - Patent issued to Joseph Aspdin for Portland cement.^[4]
• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot scientifically analyzes the efficiency of steam engines.
• Louis Braille, at age 15, develops the six-dot code, later known as Braille, which allows the visually impaired to read and write faster than previous raised-letter systems.

Awards

• Copley Medal: John Brinkley

Births

• February 7 - William Huggins (d. 1910), astronomer.
• February 16 - Peter Kozler (d. 1879), cartographer, geographer.
• March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff (d. 1887), physicist.
• May 18 - Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (d. 1877), botanist.
• June 26 - William Thomson (d. 1907), Lord Kelvin, physicist.
• June 28 - Paul Broca (d. 1880), anthropologist.

Deaths

• December 21 - James Parkinson (b. 1755), surgeon.

References