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Overview of the events of 1787 in science
The year 1787 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
Biology
Chemistry
Physics
Surveying
Technology
June –
William Symington
patents improvements to the
Watt steam engine .
[4]
c. July –
John Wilkinson launches an iron barge in the
English Midlands .
[5]
August 27 – Launching a 45-foot (14 m)
steam-powered craft on the
Delaware River ,
John Fitch demonstrates the first
United States patent for his design.
December 3 –
James Rumsey demonstrates a water-jet propelled boat on the
Potomac .
First production of all-iron edge rail (for underground colliery
rail transport ), at Plymouth Ironworks,
Merthyr Tydfil ,
South Wales .
[6]
First introduction of a
plateway , underground at
Sheffield Park Colliery,
Yorkshire ,
England , by
John Curr .
[7]
William Chapman designs a segmental
skew arch at Finlay Bridge,
Naas , on the Kildare Canal in
Ireland .
[8]
Levi Hutchins of New Hampshire produces a mechanical
alarm clock .
Awards
Births
January 24 –
Christophe-Paulin de La Poix de Fréminville (died
1848 ),
French
explorer and
naturalist .
March 6 –
Joseph von Fraunhofer (died
1826 ),
Bavarian
physicist .
March 8 –
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe (died
1840 ),
Polish -born
German
surgeon .
March 9 -
Josephine Kablick (died
1863 ), Czech
botanist and
paleontologist .
March 28 –
Claudius James Rich (died
1821 ), British
archaeologist and
anthropologist .
March 29 –
Carl Philipp Sprengel (died
1859 ), German
botanist .
April 24 –
Mathieu Orfila (died
1853 ), Spanish-born French
physician and
chemist .
May 27 –
Benjamin Valz (died
1867 ), French
astronomer .
June 2 –
Nils Gabriel Sefström (died
1845 ), Swedish
chemist and
mineralogist .
June 3 –
Auguste Le Prévost (died
1859 ), French
geologist ,
philologist ,
archaeologist and
historian .
June 4 –
Constant Prévost (died
1856 ), French
geologist .
June 7 –
William Conybeare (died
1857 ),
English
geologist .
June 27 –
Thomas Say (died
1834 ),
American
naturalist .
August 16 –
Jean Michel Claude Richard (died
1868 ), French
botanist .
August 24 –
James Weddell (died 1834),
Flemish -born
Anglo-Scots
seal hunter and
Antarctic explorer.
September 5 –
François Sulpice Beudant (died
1850 ), French
mineralogist et
geologist .
September 15 –
Guillaume-Henri Dufour (died
1875 ), Swiss
engineer et
topographer .
November 5 –
John Richardson (died
1865 ), Scottish naturalist, explorer and
surgeon .
November 9 –
Johann Natterer (died
1843 ), Austrian
naturalist .
November 18 –
Louis Daguerre (died
1851 ), French inventor.
December 17 –
John Forbes (died
1861 ), Scottish physician
December 17 (or 18) –
Jan Evangelista Purkinje (died
1869 ), Czech
anatomist et
neurophysiologist .
Undated –
Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (died
1872 ), French
physician .
Deaths
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