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The year '''1829 in science''' and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
==Chemistry== * Isaac Holden produces a form of friction match.
==Mathematics== * Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet publishes a memoir giving the Dirichlet conditions, showing for which functions the convergence of the Fourier series holds; introducing Dirichlet's test for the convergence of series; the Dirichlet function as an example that not any function is integrable; and, in the proof of the theorem for the Fourier series, the Dirichlet kernel and Dirichlet integral.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bressoud|first=David M.|title=A radical approach to real analysis|edition=2nd|year=2007|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|location=[Washington, D.C.]|isbn=978-0-88385-747-2|pages=218–227}}</ref> He also introduces a general modern concept for a function.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Elstrodt|first=Jürgen|journal=Clay Mathematics Proceedings|title=The Life and Work of Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805–1859)|volume=7|year=2007|url=http://www.uni-math.gwdg.de/tschinkel/gauss-dirichlet/elstrodt-new.pdf|accessdate=2011-10-20|archive-date=2021-05-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210522140235/http://www.uni-math.gwdg.de/tschinkel/gauss-dirichlet/elstrodt-new.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky publishes his work on hyperbolic non-Euclidean geometry.<ref>{{cite book|pages=108–111|first=Tony|last=Crilly|title=50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know|location=London|publisher=Quercus|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84724-008-8}}</ref> * S. D. Poisson publishes ''Sur l'attraction des sphéroides''.
==Medicine== * Dr Benjamin Guy Babington makes the first known use of a laryngoscope.<ref>{{cite journal|first=Teresa|last=Radomski|title=Manuel García (1805–1906): a bicentenary reflection|journal=Australian Voice|volume=11|pages=25–41|year=2005|url=http://www.harmonicorde.com/Radomski%20Australian%20Voice.pdf|accessdate=2012-02-07}}</ref>
==Palaeontology== * Jules Desnoyers names the Quaternary period. * Engis 2, part of the skull of a young child and other bones, recognised in 1936 as the first known Neanderthal fossil, is found in the Awirs cave near Engis in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) by Philippe-Charles Schmerling.<ref>{{cite book|first=Philippe-Charles|last=Schmerling|title=Recherches sur les ossements fossiles découverts dans les cavernes de la Province de Liège|publisher=P.-J. Collardin|location=Liège|year=1833}} S. 1–66.</ref>
==Technology== * May – Cyrill Demian patents a version of the accordion in Vienna. * June 30 – Henry Robinson Palmer files a British patent application for corrugated iron for use in buildings.<ref>{{cite book|first=Nick|last=Thomson|title=Corrugated Iron Buildings|location=Oxford|publisher=Shire Publications|year=2011|isbn=978-0-7478-0783-4|pages=7–8}}</ref> * July 23 – In the United States, William Burt obtains the first patent for a form of typewriter, the ''typographer''.<ref>[https://patents.google.com/patent/USX5581 U.S. Patent 5581X.]</ref> * October 6–14 – The Rainhill Trials, a steam locomotive competition, are run in England and won by Stephenson's ''Rocket''. * December 19 – Charles Wheatstone patents the concertina in Britain.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.concertina.com/patents/index.htm#wheatstone-patent-1829 | title=Portfolio of Historic Concertina Patents }}</ref> * William Mann invents the compound air compressor. * Louis Braille publishes the first description of his method of embossed printing that allows the visually impaired to read.<ref>''Procédé pour écrire les Paroles, la Musique et le Plain-chant au moyen de points, à l'usage des Aveugles et disposés pour eux''. Paris.</ref>
==Higher Education== * Chalmers University of Technology founded in Gothenburg, Sweden. * Technical University of Denmark (originally named 'College of Advanced Technology') founded in Copenhagen, Denmark. * University of Stuttgart founded in Stuttgart, Germany. * Ecole Centrale Paris (originally named 'École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures') founded in Paris, France.
==Awards== * Copley Medal: not awarded<ref>{{cite web |title=Copley Medal {{!}} British scientific award |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/Copley-Medal |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |accessdate=22 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
==Births== * February 2 ** Alfred Brehm (died 1884), German zoologist. ** William Stanley (died 1909), English inventor. * March 23 – N. R. Pogson (died 1891 in science), English-born astronomer. * April 28 – Charles Bourseul (died 1912), Belgian-born telegraph engineer. * April 30 – Ferdinand von Hochstetter (died 1884), German-born geologist. * July 30 – George Rolleston (died 1881), English physician and zoologist. * August 13 (O.S. August 1) – Ivan Sechenov (died 1905), "father of Russian physiology". * August 23 – Moritz Cantor (died 1920), German historian of mathematics. * August 24 - Emanuella Carlbeck (died 1901), Swedish pioneer in the education of students with intellectual disability. * September 7 – August Kekulé (died 1896), German chemist. * September 30 ** Franz Reuleaux (died 1905), German mechanical engineer, "father of kinematics". ** Joseph Wolstenholme (died 1891), English mathematician. * October 15 – Asaph Hall (died 1907), American astronomer. * November 4 – Hanna Hammarström (died 1909), Swedish inventor.
==Deaths== * March 1 – Thomas Earnshaw (born 1749), English watchmaker. * April 6 – Niels Henrik Abel (born 1802), Norwegian mathematician. * May 10 – Thomas Young (born 1773), English physicist. * May 29 – Humphry Davy (born 1778), English chemist. * June 29 – James Smithson (born 1764), English mineralogist, chemist and benefactor. * November 14 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (born 1763), French chemist. * October 10 – Maria Elizabetha Jacson (born 1755), English botanist. * December 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (born 1744), French naturalist. * ''undated'' – Huang Lü, Chinese scientist.
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