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The year 1842 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents

1 Physics
2 Paleontology
3 Technology
4 Awards
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 References

Physics

Christian Doppler proposes the Doppler effect.^[1]
Julius Robert von Mayer proposes that work and heat are equivalent.^[2] This is also independently discovered by James Prescott Joule, who named it "mechanical equivalent of heat" (see 1843 in science).

Paleontology

Palaeontologist Richard Owen coins the name Dinosauria, hence the Anglicized dinosaur.^[3]

Technology

February 21 - John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.^[4]
March 30 - Crawford Long performs the first surgical operation using anesthesia (diethyl ether).^[5]

Awards

Births

February 2 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski (d. 1927), mathematician.
February 22 - Camille Flammarion (d. 1925), astronomer.
May 8 - Emil Christian Hansen (d. 1909), fermentation physiologist.
August 23 - Osborne Reynolds (d. 1912), physicist.
September 9 - Elliott Coues (d. 1899), ornithologist.
September 20 - James Dewar (d. 1923), chemist.
October 17 - Gustaf Retzius (d. 1919), anatomist.
November 12 - John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (d. 1919), Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
December 17 - Sophus Lie (d. 1899), mathematician.

Deaths

February 15 - Archibald Menzies (b. 1754), botanist.
April 28 - Charles Bell (b. 1774), anatomist.
May 8 - Jules Dumont d'Urville (b. 1790), explorer.
July 19 - Pierre Joseph Pelletier (b. 1788), chemist.
August 18 - Louis de Freycinet (b. 1779), explored coastal regions of Western Australia.

References

^ Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einige andere Gestirne des Himmels - Versuch einer das Bradleysche Theorem als integrirenden Theil in sich schliessenden allgemeineren Theorie (On the coloured light of the binary refracted stars and other celestial bodies - Attempt of a more general theory including Bradley's theorem as an integral part)
^ von Mayer, J.R. (1842) "Remarks on the forces of inorganic nature" in Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie, 43, 233
^ Owen, R. (1842). "Report on British Fossil Reptiles." Part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Plymouth, England.
^ "Vacuum & Sewing Hall of Fame". Retrieved on 2007-12-29. See section "Contributors to the invention of the sewing machine".
^ Long, Tony (2007-03-30). "March 30, 1842: It's Lights Out, Thanks to Ether". Wired.

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