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The year 1816 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Botany

  • Botanic Gardens, Sydney, established in Australia.

Chemistry

  • Veuve Clicquot invents the riddling table process to clarify champagne.

Mathematics

  • John Farey notes the Farey sequence.

Medicine

  • René Laennec invents the stethoscope.
  • Caleb Parry publishes An Experimental Inquiry into the Nature, Cause and Varieties of the Arterial Pulse, describing the mechanisms for the pulse.

Mineralogy

  • Johann Fischer von Waldheim publishes Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite in Moscow, the first scientific treatise on the mineral turquoise.

Physics

  • Sir David Brewster (1781–1868) discovers stress birefringence.

Technology

  • January 9 – Sir Humphry Davy's Davy lamp is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp at Hebburn Colliery in north east England.
  • The Spider Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill, a temporary iron-wire footbridge erected across the Schuylkill River, north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the first wire-cable suspension bridge in history.
  • Johann Nepomuk Maelzel begins production of the metronome with a scale.
  • Rev. Robert Stirling obtains a patent in the United Kingdom for the Stirling hot air engine.
  • English inventor Francis Ronalds demonstrates the practicability of the electric telegraph but it is rejected as "wholly unnecessary" at this time.
  • approx. date – Simeon North in New England produces a practicable milling machine for working metal.

Awards

  • Copley Medal: Not awarded

Births

  • January 2 – Anastasie Fătu, Moldavian and Romanian physician and naturalist (died 1886)
  • July 7 – Rudolf Wolf, Swiss astronomer (died 1893)
  • July 20 – Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, English ophthalmologist, histologist and anatomist (died 1892)
  • December 13 – Werner Siemens, German electrical engineer (died 1892)

Deaths

  • January 2 – Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau, French chemist (born 1737)
  • April 7 – Christian Konrad Sprengel, German botanist (born 1750)
  • September 18 – Bernard McMahon, Irish American horticulturalist (born c. 1775)
  • September 28 – Edward Howard, English chemist (born 1774)
  • December 15 – Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope, English engineer (born 1753)

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