1833 in science explained

The year 1833 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Astronomy

• November 12–13 – A spectacular occurrence of the Leonid meteor shower is observed over Alabama.

Biology

• May 3 – The Entomological Society of London is inaugurated.
• Katherine Sophia Kane's The Irish Flora is published anonymously.

Chemistry

• Thomas Graham proposes Graham's law.

Computer science

• June 5 – Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles Babbage by Mary Somerville.^[1]

Geophysics

• November 25 – A major 8.7 earthquake strikes Sumatra.

Mathematics

• probable date – Paul Gerwien proves the Bolyai–Gerwien theorem formulated by Farkas Bolyai: that any two simple polygons of equal area are equidecomposable.

Paleontology

• Henry Witham publishes The Internal Structure of Fossil Vegetables found in the Carboniferous and Oolitic deposits of Great Britain in Edinburgh.

Physics

• Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber develop an electromagnetic telegraph at Göttingen.

Physiology and medicine

• William Beaumont publishes Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.
• Charles Bell publishes The Hand: its Mechanism and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design, the fourth Bridgewater Treatise.
• Marshall Hall coins the term "reflex" for a muscular reaction.
• Jean Lobstein proposes use of the term arteriosclerosis.^[2]
• Johannes Peter Müller begins publication of his major physiology textbook Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen.
• Anselme Payen discovers diastase (the first enzyme identified).

Technology

• August 18 – The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.
• Obed Hussey patents a reaper in the United States.^{[3] [4]}
• Cornish engineer Adrian Stephens invents the steam whistle as a warning device at Dowlais Ironworks in Wales.^{[5] [6]}
• Publication by Charles Knight of The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge begins in London.

Awards

• Copley Medal: Not awarded^[7]

Births

• January 19 – Alfred Clebsch (died 1872), German mathematician.
• February 26 – Georges Pouchet (died 1894), French comparative anatomist.
• March 14 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor (died 1910), American dentist.
• March 23 – Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (died 1890), German psychiatrist.
• March 25 – Fleeming Jenkin (died 1885), English electrical engineer.
• May 5 – Ferdinand von Richthofen (died 1905), German geographer.
• June 29 – Peter Waage (died 1900), Norwegian chemist.
• October 9 – Eugen Langen (died 1895), German mechanical engineer.
• October 17 – Paul Bert (died 1886), French physiologist.
• October 21 – Alfred Nobel (died 1896), Swedish inventor.
• November 27 - Émile Vallin (died 1924), French military physician.^[8]
• December 2 – Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (died 1910), German pathologist.

Deaths

• January 10 – Adrien-Marie Legendre (born 1752), mathematician.
• February 6
  • Fausto Elhuyar (born 1755), chemist
  • Pierre André Latreille (born 1762), zoologist.
• February 14 – Gottlieb Kirchhoff (born 1764), chemist.
• April 22 – Richard Trevithick (born 1771), engineer and inventor.
• May 15 – Bewick Bridge (born 1767), mathematician.
• July 5 – Nicéphore Niépce (born 1765), inventor.
• October 31 – Johann Friedrich Meckel (born 1781), anatomist.

Notes and References

1. Book: Hyman, Anthony. R. Anthony Hyman. . Oxford University Press. 1982. 978-0-19-858170-3. 177–8.
2. Alain. Tedgui. Ziad. Mallat . Cytokines in Atherosclerosis . . American Physiological Society . 2006 . 86 . 2 . 515–581 . 10.1152/physrev.00024.2005 . 2011-06-23 . 16601268 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130713133753/http://physrev.physiology.org/content/86/2/515.full . 2013-07-13. live.
3. Encyclopedia: Obed Hussey. Ohio History Central: An Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History. 2005-07-01. 2011-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20110622032502/http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=175. 22 June 2011 . live.
4. Book: Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap. Greeno, Follett L.. 1912. 2011-05-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20130119041803/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19547/19547-h/19547-h.htm . 2013-01-19. live.
5. Web site: Adrian Stephens . 2012-06-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121012000850/http://www.trevor.jones4.btinternet.co.uk/Heroes/AdrianStephens.html . 2012-10-12 . dead .
6. Charles E.. Lee. Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle. Transactions of the Newcomen Society. 27. 1949. 163–73. 10.1179/tns.1949.015 .
7. Web site: Copley Medal British scientific award . Encyclopedia Britannica . 22 July 2020 . en.
8. Web site: fr . Vallin Émile Arthur . L. Vaillard. Agathe Floderer. Alexandre Wauthier . cths.fr . Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques . 11 February 2021.