Science and Technology
- Gas lighting becomes a practical technology and is implemented in cities in Europe and the United States.
- June – Nicolas Appert publishes L'art de conserver pendant plusieurs années toutes les substances animales ou végétales, the first description of modern food preservation using airtight containers
- 1810: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his Theory of Colours.
- March 25, 1811 – The Great Comet of 1811 is discovered by Honoré Flaugergues.
- July 11, 1811 – Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro publishes his memoire about the molecular content of gases.
- February 12, 1812 – Napoleon authorizes the usage of Mesures usuelles, the basis of the Metric System.
- 1813: Mathieu Orfila publishes his groundbreaking Traité des poisons, formalizing the field of toxicology.
- October 21, 1815 – Humphry Davy patents the miner's safety lamp for use in coal mining.
- January 9, 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.
- 1816 – René Laennec invents the stethoscope.
- 1816 – Robert Stirling patents his Stirling engine, then known as Stirling's air engine.
- John Kidd extracts naphthalene from coal tar.
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