1824 in science

Events

  • the chemist Swedish Jöns Jacob Berzelius discovers the Silicium.

  • Joseph Nicéphore Niépce succeeds in fixing the image (Photographie).
  • the engineer McCormick deposits the patent of the mechanical self-binder, tractor drawn by horses.

Publications

  • the scientist French Sadi Carnot provides the foundations of the second law of the Thermodynamique and scientifically studies the effectiveness of the steam engines in its book Réflexion on the horse-power of fire and the machines suitable to develop this power .
  • Mathematical: Niels Henrik Abel writes an almost complete demonstration of the theorem of Abel in an article entitled Mémoire on the algebraic equations, where one shows the impossibility of the resolution of the general equation of the fifth degree

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