1857 in science

Events

March 23rd: The American inventor Elisha Otis installs the first elevator in a store of New York.
March 25th: Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville deposits a patent for the “phonautograph”, an apparatus which reproduces the undulations of the sounds on lampblack that it then extends on a glass plate.

Kirchhoff and Bunsen carries out the first spectral analysis of the Lumière.
Beginning of work of Louis Pasteur (wk. 1857-1885) on the Pasteurization and the Vaccination.
kinetic Theory of gases by the physicist August Krönig (1822-1879).
the Tables of the moon , established by the Danish astronomer Peter Andreas Hansen, are published by the British authorities. They will be taken again soon by many almanac nautical.

Invention of the Paper to the paste with wood.

Publications

Births

November 26th: Ferdinand de Saussure, founder of the Linguistic Structuralism in .

Death

May 23rd: Augustin Louis Cauchy, Mathematician French.

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