Technology
- February 25 - Thomas Davenport obtains the first United States patent on an electric motor.
- May - Samuel Morse patents his telegraph and exhibits it to the United States Congress.
- June 12 - Cooke and Wheatstone file their patent for the electrical telegraph in the United Kingdom.
- July 19 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship SS Great Western is launched in Bristol.
- July - Godefroy Engelmann of Mulhouse patents chromolithography.
- November 18 - William Crompton patents the cotton power loom in the United States.
- Louis Daguerre's daguerrotype L’Atelier de l'artiste is said to be the earliest known photographic image successfully to undergo the full process of exposure, development and fixation.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)