1831 – 1850
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11
Aug
| Year | Births | Death | Scientific Discoveries |
Timeline Events and Comments |
| 1831 | Sir Burton | Difference Engine | Gurney and others begin building and operating commercially successful steam road transports. Efforts by both railroads and horse and carriage interests to restrict the development of this technology included legal action in the House of Lords. These efforts were brought to nothing with the public outrage over sabotage against a steam wagon in Edinburgh that resulted in several deaths. The criminal proceeding against the men responsible resulted in loss of support in parliament and defeat of several bills restricting the use of steam road engines. The railways were able to maintain successful competition over long distance intercity routes but increasingly intracity transport was steam powered. | |
| 1833 | Sir Francis Galton | Archibald Cochrane | First commercial Difference Engine is available in London. Over a dozen are purchased that year | |
| 1834 | Thomas Henry Huxley | |||
| 1836 | Henri Giffard | Founding of the Triple Empire went Peter I and IV Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal becomes Regent of the Spanish Throne. On September 24th the Empire is further consolidated upon the death of Peter I and IV and the naming of Padre Dioge Antonio Feijo to the triple regency. | ||
| 1837 | Alexandr Mozhaiskii | |||
| 1838 | Sir Frederick Augustus Abel | |||
| 1840 | Victoria Crowned Queen of England | |||
| 1841 | Peter II and V is crowned King of Spain and Portugal and Emperor of Brazil. He is formally betrothed to Isabella II. | |||
| 1842 | A Nobel | |||
| 1843 | G. Wolseley | Aerial Transit Company | Thomas Cook Travel Company founded | |
| 1844 | G Rendel | Computer Programming | Hansen and Stringfellow form the Aerial Transit Company. The enterprise folds quickly since they are unable to develop a practical aircraft rapidly enough. | |
| 1845 | John Lubbock | Ada Lovelace in a series of articles develops the concepts of a “Language” for machines. She works very closely with her idol Babbage as he develops a machine sophisticated enough to use the concepts she has evolved. | ||
| 1846 | Andrew Hallidie | |||
| 1847 | Imperial marriage between Pedro II and V and Isabella II | |||
| 1848 | Graf Zeppelin | Analytical Engine | ||
| 1849 | First of the more complex and programmable mechanical computers becomes commercially available. They use the language developed by Ada Lovelace. | |||
| 1850 | Clement Ader | Marc Brunel | Cayley builds first man lifting glider. First flight is followed up with a series of increasingly long glides. Interest from the Press results in large public reaction. Other engineers and researchers become involved in gliding flight activities. Within 18 months over 150 gliding flights by a dozen inventors have been conducted. November 18th sees the first air fatality. |