Technology
- May 9 - Albert Fink patents the Fink truss in the United States.
- July - First voyage by a seagoing steamship fitted with a compound engine, the screw steamer Brandon, built on the River Clyde in Scotland by John Elder.
- December 20 - In the case of Talbot v. Laroche, pioneer of photography Henry Fox Talbot fails in asserting that the collodion process infringes his calotype patent.
- James Ambrose Cutting takes out three United States patents for improvements to the wet plate collodion process (Ambrotype photography).
- Elisha Otis completes work on the safey elevator.
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