1829 in science

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The year 1829 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Chemistry

• Isaac Holden produces a form of friction match.

Mathematics

• Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet publishes a memoir giving the Dirichlet conditions, showing for which functions the convergence of the Fourier series holds; introducing Dirichlet's test for the convergence of series; the Dirichlet function as an example that not any function is integrable; and, in the proof of the theorem for the Fourier series, the Dirichlet kernel and Dirichlet integral. He also introduces a general modern concept for a function.
• Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky publishes his work on hyperbolic non-Euclidean geometry.
• S. D. Poisson publishes Sur l'attraction des sphéroides.

Medicine

• Dr Benjamin Guy Babington makes the first known use of a laryngoscope.

Palaeontology

• Jules Desnoyers names the Quaternary period.
• Philippe-Charles Schmerling discovers a Neandertal fossil, the partial cranium of a small child.

Technology

• May – Cyrill Demian patents a version of the accordion in Vienna.
• June 30 – Henry Robinson Palmer files a British patent application for corrugated iron for use in buildings.
• July 23 – In the United States, William Burt obtains the first patent for a form of typewriter, the typographer.
• October 6–14 – The Rainhill Trials, a steam locomotive competition, are run in England and won by Stephenson's Rocket.
• December 19 – Charles Wheatstone patents the concertina in Britain.
• Louis Braille publishes the first description of his method of embossed printing that allows the visually impaired to read.

Higher Education

• Chalmers University of Technology founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Technical University of Denmark (originally named 'College of Advanced Technology') founded in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• University of Stuttgart founded in Stuttgart, Germany.
• Ecole Centrale Paris (originally named 'École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures') founded in Paris, France.

Awards

• Copley Medal: not awarded

Births

• February 2
  • Alfred Brehm (died 1884), zoologist.
  • William Stanley (died 1909), inventor.
• March 23 – N. R. Pogson (died 1891 in science), astronomer.
• April 28 – Charles Bourseul (died 1912), telegraph engineer.
• April 30 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter (died 1884), geologist.
• August 13 (O.S. August 1) – Ivan Sechenov (died 1905), "the father of Russian physiology".
• August 23 – Moritz Cantor (died 1920), historian of mathematics.
• September 7 – Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz (died 1896), chemist.
• September 30
  • Franz Reuleaux (died 1905), mechanical engineer.
  • Joseph Wolstenholme (died 1891), mathematician.

Deaths

• March 1 – Thomas Earnshaw (born 1749), watchmaker.
• April 6 – Niels Henrik Abel (born 1802), mathematician.
• May 10 – Thomas Young (born 1773), physicist.
• May 29 – Humphry Davy (born 1778), chemist.
• June 29 – James Smithson (born 1764), mineralogist, chemist and benefactor.
• November 14 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (born 1763), chemist.
• October 10 – Maria Elizabetha Jacson (born 1755), botanist.
• December 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (born 1744), naturalist.