The year 1833 in science and technology involved
some significant events, listed below.
== Astronomy ==
November 12–13 – A spectacular occurrence
of the Leonid meteor shower is observed over
Alabama.
== Biology ==
May 3 – The Entomological Society of London
is inaugurated.
Katherine Sophia Kane's The Irish Flora is
published anonymously.
== Chemistry ==
Thomas Graham proposes Graham's Law.
== Computer science ==
June 5 – Ada Lovelace is introduced to Charles
Babbage by Mary Somerville.
== Geophysics ==
November 25 – A major 8.7 earthquake strikes
Sumatra.
== Mathematics ==
probable date – Paul Gerwien proves the
Bolyai–Gerwien theorem formulated by Farkas
Bolyai: that any two simple polygons of equal
area are equidecomposable.
== Paleontology ==
Henry Witham publishes The Internal Structure
of Fossil Vegetables found in the Carboniferous
and Oolitic deposits of Great Britain in Edinburgh.
== Physics ==
Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Eduard Weber
develop an electromagnetic telegraph at Göttingen.
== Physiology and medicine ==
William Beaumont publishes Experiments and
Observations on the Gastric Juice and the
Physiology of Digestion.
Charles Bell publishes The Hand: its Mechanism
and Vital Endowments as Evincing Design, the
fourth Bridgewater Treatise.
Marshall Hall coins the term "reflex" for
a muscular reaction.
Jean Lobstein proposes use of the term arteriosclerosis.
Johannes Peter Müller begins publication
of his major physiology textbook Handbuch
der Physiologie des Menschen.
Anselme Payen discovers diastase (the first
enzyme identified).
== Technology ==
August 18 – The Canadian ship SS Royal William
sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day
passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under
steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.
Obed Hussey patents a reaper in the United
States.
Cornish engineer Adrian Stephens invents the
steam whistle as a warning device at Dowlais
Ironworks in Wales.
Publication by Charles Knight of The Penny
Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion
of Useful Knowledge begins in London.
== Awards ==
Copley Medal: Not awarded
== Births ==
February 26 – Georges Pouchet (died 1894),
French comparative anatomist.
March 14 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor (died 1910),
American dentist.
March 23 – Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal
(died 1890), German psychiatrist.
March 25 – Fleeming Jenkin (died 1885),
English engineer.
May 5 – Ferdinand von Richthofen (died 1905),
German geographer.
June 29 – Peter Waage (died 1900), Norwegian
chemist.
October 9 – Eugene Langen (died 1895), engineer
October 17 – Paul Bert (died 1886), French
physiologist.
October 21 – Alfred Nobel (died 1896), Swedish
inventor.
December 2 – Daniel von Recklinghausen (died
1910), pathologist.
== Deaths ==
January 10 – Adrien-Marie Legendre (born
1752), mathematician.
February 6
Fausto Elhuyar (born 1755), chemist
Pierre André Latreille (born 1762), zoologist.
February 14 – Gottlieb Kirchhoff (born 1764),
chemist.
April 22 – Richard Trevithick (born 1771),
engineer and inventor.
May 15 – Bewick Bridge (born 1767), mathematician.
July 5 – Nicéphore Niépce (born 1765),
inventor.
October 31 – Johann Friedrich Meckel (born
1781), anatomist
