1792 In Science

Astronomy

• Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach publishes "The Tables of the Sun", an essential early work for navigation

Exploration

• George Vancouver explores Puget Sound, and becomes first European to see Mount Rainier

Technology

• Claude Chappe successfully demonstrates the first semaphore line, between Paris and Lille
• William Murdoch invents gas lighting
• George Anschutz constructs the first blast furnace in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Awards

• Copley Medal: Benjamin Thompson

Births

• January 12 - Johann Arfvedson, chemist (died 1841)
• February 17 - Karl Ernst von Baer, naturalist (died 1876)
• March 7 - John Herschel, mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
• May 21 - Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, mathematician, discoverer of the Coriolis effect (died 1843)

Deaths

• October 28 - John Smeaton, civil engineer (born 1724)

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