1779 in science
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The year 1779 in science and technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
- March 23 - Edward Pigott discovers the Black Eye Galaxy (M64).
- May 5 - The spiral galaxy M61 is discovered in the constellation Virgo by Barnabus Oriani.
Exploration
- Horace-Bénédict de Saussure begins publication of Voyages dans les Alpes.
Technology
- January 8 - Bryan Higgins is granted a British patent for hydraulic cement (stucco) for use as an exterior plaster.[1]
- The Iron Bridge is erected across the River Severn in Shropshire, England; the first all-cast-iron bridge ever built.[2] It will open to traffic on January 1, 1781.[3]
- The spinning mule is perfected by the Lancashire inventor Samuel Crompton.[3]
- The British Royal Navy adopts the carronade.
- The Girandoni Air Rifle is designed in Austria.
Births
- January 5 - General Zebulon Pike, explorer (died 1813)
- August 7 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, chemist (died 1848)
- August 7 - Louis de Freycinet, explored coastal regions of Western Australia (died 1842)
Deaths
- January 22 - Jeremiah Dixon, surveyor and astronomer (born 1733)
- February 14 - James Cook, explorer (born 1728)
- October 18 - Patrick d'Arcy, mathematician (born 1725)
- November 16 - Pehr Kalm, botanist (born 1716)
References
- ↑ Knight, David (2004). "Higgins, Bryan (c.1741–1818)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13228. Retrieved 2011-06-20. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ "Icons, a portrait of England 1750-1800". Retrieved 2007-08-27.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 333–334. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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