1871 in science
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The year 1871 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
Paleontology
- Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis juvenile found in Summertown, Oxford.
Physics
- James Clerk Maxwell makes public the thought experiment which will become known as Maxwell's demon in the philosophy of thermal and statistical physics, in his book Theory of Heat[1] and establishes Maxwell relations, statements of equality among the second derivatives of the thermodynamic potentials with respect to different thermodynamic variables.
- John Strutt publishes his first papers on the theory of acoustic resonance and on the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, explaining why the sky is blue.[2]
Physiology and medicine
- Porphyria is first explained biochemically by Felix Hoppe-Seyler.[3]
- Friedrich Trendelenburg describes the first successful elective human tracheotomy to be performed for the purpose of administering general anaesthesia.[4][5][6][7]
Technology
- Institution of Electrical Engineers established in the United Kingdom as the Society of Telegraph Engineers.
- Souter Lighthouse in England is the first to use alternating current electricity.
Publications
- Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt, covering a large number of topics in scientific exploration and invention.
- The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin, outlining his theory for man's origins and his theory of sexual selection, and including his first published use of the term evolution (published by John Murray in London, February 24).
Awards
- Copley Medal: Julius Robert von Mayer
- Wollaston Medal for Geology: Andrew Ramsay
Births
- January 7 - Émile Borel (died 1956), French mathematician.
- May 19 - Walter Russell (died 1963), American polymath.
- August 15 - Arthur Tansley (died 1955), English botanist and ecologist.
- August 19 - Orville Wright (died 1948), American pioneer aviator.
- October 19 - Walter Bradford Cannon (died 1945), American physiologist.
- October 26 - Albert Stewart Meek (died 1943), English-born ornithologist.
Deaths
- March 18 - Augustus De Morgan (born 1806), British logician.
- April 8 - Francisco Javier Muñiz (born 1795), Argentine physician and paleontologist.
- April 16 - Johann Ritter von Oppolzer (born 1808), Austrian physician.
- May 11 - John Herschel (born 1792), English mathematician and astronomer.
- October 18 - Charles Babbage (born 1791), English mathematician and inventor of computing machines.
References
- ↑ Leff, Harvey S.; Rex, Andrew F., ed. (2002). Maxwell's Demon 2: Entropy, Classical and Quantum Information, Computing. CRC Press. p. 370. ISBN 0-7503-0759-5.
- ↑ Gavroglu, Kostas (2004). "Strutt, John William, third Baron Rayleigh (1842–1919)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36359. Retrieved 2011-11-03. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Hoppe-Seyler, F. (1871). "Das Hämatin". Tübinger Med-Chem Untersuch 4: 523–33.
- ↑ Trendelenburg, F (1871). "Beiträge zu den Operationen an den Luftwegen" [Contributions to airways surgery]. Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie (in German) 12: 112–33.
- ↑ Hargrave, R. (1934). "Endotraheal Anesthesia in Surgery of the Head and Neck". Canadian Medical Association Journal 30 (6): 633–7. PMC 403396. PMID 20319535.
- ↑ Bain, J. A.; Spoerel, W. E. (1964). "Observation on the use of cuffed tracheqstomy tubes (with particular reference to the james tube)". Canadian Anaesthetists' Society Journal 11 (6): 598–608. doi:10.1007/BF03004104. PMID 14232175.
- ↑ Wawersik, Juergen (1991). "History of Anesthesia in Germany". Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 3 (3): 235–44. doi:10.1016/0952-8180(91)90167-L. PMID 1878238. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
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