Technology
- January 30 - Charles Goodyear patents the vulcanisation of rubber in the United States.
- May 11 - Samuel Morse sends the first message using Morse code.
- June - Henry Fox Talbot commences publication of the first book illustrated with photographs from a camera, The Pencil of Nature.
- Uriah A. Boyden develops an improved outward-flow water turbine.
- Robert Bunsen invents the grease-spot photometer.
- Thomas and Caleb Pratt design the Pratt truss bridge.
- Dublin iron-founder Richard Turner begins assembing components for the Palm house at Kew Gardens in London, the first large-scale structural use of wrought iron.
- Egide Walschaerts of the Belgian State Railways originates Walschaerts valve gear for the steam locomotive.
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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)
“The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“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)