1851 in science

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The year 1851 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents

1 Astronomy
2 Technology
3 Awards
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 References

Astronomy

February - First public exhibition of a Foucault pendulum, at the Meridian of the Paris Observatory, demonstrating the Earth's rotation. A few weeks later Foucault installs one at the Panthéon.^[1]
October 24 - Ariel and Umbriel, moons of Uranus, are discovered by William Lassell.^[2]

Technology

November 13 - First protected submarine telegraph cable laid, across the English Channel.
William Armstrong introduces the weight-loaded hydraulic accumulator.^[3]

Awards

Copley Medal: Richard Owen
Wollaston Medal for geology: Adam Sedgwick

Births

January 19 - Jacobus Kapteyn (d. 1922), astronomer.
April 12 - E. Walter Maunder (d. 1928), astronomer.
July 8 - Arthur Evans (d. 1941), archaeologist.
July 20 - Arnold Pick (d. 1924), neurologist.
August 3 - George FitzGerald (d. 1901), mathematician.

Deaths

January 27 - John James Audubon (b. 1785), naturalist and illustrator.
February 18 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi (b. 1804), mathematician.
March 9 - Hans Christian Ørsted (b. 1777), physicist.
July 17 - John Farey (b. 1791), mechanical engineer and technical writer.
September 2 - William Nicol (b. 1770), geologist.

References

^ Tobin, William (2003). The Life and Science of Léon Foucault, the Man who Proved the Earth Rotates. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80855-3.
^ Astronomical Journal 2(33):p. 70 (1851).
^ McNeill, Ian (1972). Hydraulic Power. London: Longman. ISBN 0-582-12797-1.