February 20 –
James Weddell's expedition to
Antarctica reaches
latitude 74°15' S and
longitude 34°16'45" W, the most southerly position that will be attained for more than 80 years.
January 23 – In a cave on the
Gower Peninsula of
Wales,
William Buckland inspects the "
Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial. The bones, discovered on December 21 last, are with those of the woolly
mammoth, proving that the two had coexisted, although Buckland dates th human remains as Roman.[3]
December 6 – English inventor
Samuel Brown obtains his first
patent for a hydrogen fuelled compressionless atmospheric gas vacuum engine,[5] the first
internal combustion engine to be applied industrially.[6]
^Gill, T. (1826). The Technical Repository, p. 383.
^Hardenberg, Horst O. (1992). Samuel Morey and his atmospheric engine. SP-922. Warrendale, Pa.: Society of Automotive Engineers.
ISBN1-56091-240-5.
^Watson, Bruce (August 1999). "Science Makes a Better Lighthouse Lens". Smithsonian. 30: 30.
^Peters, Tom F.; Andrea L. (1987). Transitions in Engineering: Guillaume Henri Dufour and the Early 19th Century Cable Suspension Bridges. Basel: Birkhauser.
ISBN3-7643-1929-1.
^Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1904),
"Thomas William Evans", The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, vol. 4, Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, retrieved 2009-06-12.
February 20 –
James Weddell's expedition to
Antarctica reaches
latitude 74°15' S and
longitude 34°16'45" W, the most southerly position that will be attained for more than 80 years.
January 23 – In a cave on the
Gower Peninsula of
Wales,
William Buckland inspects the "
Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial. The bones, discovered on December 21 last, are with those of the woolly
mammoth, proving that the two had coexisted, although Buckland dates th human remains as Roman.[3]
December 6 – English inventor
Samuel Brown obtains his first
patent for a hydrogen fuelled compressionless atmospheric gas vacuum engine,[5] the first
internal combustion engine to be applied industrially.[6]
^Gill, T. (1826). The Technical Repository, p. 383.
^Hardenberg, Horst O. (1992). Samuel Morey and his atmospheric engine. SP-922. Warrendale, Pa.: Society of Automotive Engineers.
ISBN1-56091-240-5.
^Watson, Bruce (August 1999). "Science Makes a Better Lighthouse Lens". Smithsonian. 30: 30.
^Peters, Tom F.; Andrea L. (1987). Transitions in Engineering: Guillaume Henri Dufour and the Early 19th Century Cable Suspension Bridges. Basel: Birkhauser.
ISBN3-7643-1929-1.
^Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1904),
"Thomas William Evans", The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, vol. 4, Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, retrieved 2009-06-12.