1838 in science
Overview of the events of 1838 in science
The year 1838 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Technology
January 6 – Samuel Morse first publicly demonstrates the electrical telegraph .
April 4–22 – The paddle steamer SS Sirius (1837) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Cork , Ireland , in eighteen days, though not using steam continuously.[ 7]
April 8–23 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel 's paddle steamer SS Great Western (1838) makes the Transatlantic Crossing to New York from Avonmouth , England , in fifteen days, inaugurating a regular steamship service.[ 8]
Liverpool -built barque Ironsides becomes the first large ocean-going iron ship.[ 9] William Barnett obtains a United Kingdom patent for an internal combustion engine , the first with compression of the gas/air mixture in the cylinder.[ 10] [ 11] David Bruce , Jr., invents the Pivotal Typecaster, which replaces hand typecasting in printing.Boris Semyonovich Yakobi invents electrotyping , which is used in printing and reproduction of art objects.[ 12] The first screw-pile lighthouse is built by Alexander Mitchell on Maplin Sands in the Thames Estuary .
Charles Wheatstone originates the stereoscope .
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Awards
Births
January 5 – Camille Jordan (died 1922 ), French mathematician .
January 29 – Edward W. Morley (died 1923 ), American chemist .
February 18 – Ernst Mach (died 1916 ), Austrian physicist .
March 3 – George William Hill (died 1914 ), American astronomer .
March 12 – William H. Perkin (died 1907 ), English chemist.
March 15 – Alice Cunningham Fletcher (died 1923 ), Cuban-born American ethnologist , anthropologist and social scientist .
April 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin (died 1917 ), German founder of the Zeppelin airship company.
April 16 – Ernest Solvay (died 1922 ), Belgian chemist.
April 18 – Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran (died 1912 ), French chemist.
April 21 – John Muir (died 1914 ), Scottish-born American naturalist .
May 6 – Alexandra Smirnoff (died 1913 ), Finnish pomologist .
June 4 – John Grigg (died 1920 ), New Zealand astronomer.
July 19 – Joel Asaph Allen (died 1921 ), American zoologist .
August 6 – George James Symons (died 1900 ), English meteorologist .
December 12 – Sherburne Wesley Burnham (died 1921 ), American astronomer.
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References
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