1816 in science
Physics
- Augustin Fresnel formula conditions of passage through an interface between two mediums for the phase and the Amplitude of a electromagnetic Wave.
Inventions
- January 9th: Invention of the lamp of safety of the chemist and physicist Davy Humphry intended to avoid the firedamp explosions in the mines.
- March 27th: Auguste Brunet and Jean-Baptiste Cochot deposits the Brevet Circular saw. The first circular saws, actuated by water, cut only wood.
- Invention of the matches to the Phosphorus.
- Discovered sounding with the Stethoscope at the Necker Hospital by Rene Theophilus Hyacinthe LAËNNEC.
- First increase of the the Seine by a Steamer coming from Great Britain.
- First Steam engine used in Moravie.
- Invention of the céléripède, ancestor of the Bicycle, by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.
Geography
- the British Explorateur James Kingston Tuckey goes up the river Congo until the Chutes of Yelala and thus inaugurates the period of “scientific explorations” of the 19th century in central Africa and southern.
Publications
- William Smith, British geologist , publishes has off Geological Table Organized Fossils .
- Natural history of the animals without vertebrae , Lamarck.
Births
- April 9th: Charles-Eugene Delaunay, astronomer and mathematician French.
- July 7th: Johann Rudolf Wolf, Swiss Astronomer
- August 8th: Filippo Parlatore, Italian botanist († 1877)
- November 24th: William Crawford Williamson, British Naturalist
Death
- January 2nd: Guyton de Morveau French chemist (° 1737).
- June 27th: Domenico Agostino Vandelli, 80 years, Italian Naturalist . (° July 8th 1735).
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