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The year 1709 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Physics 2 Technology 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Physics

• Francis Hauksbee publishes Physico-Mechanical Experiments on Various Subjects, summarizing the results of his many experiments with electricity and other topics.

[edit] Technology

• August 8 - Hot air balloon of Bartholome de Gusmao flies in Portugal.
• Coke iron smelting was invented, fuelling the Industrial Revolution.
• European porcelain production was begun, but porcelain cups did not have a noticeable impact on stein making until the 1720s.
• The folding umbrella was invented, during the reign of the Sun King.

[edit] Awards

• Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet dies and in his will provides funding to the Royal Society for the annual Copley Medal honoring achievement in science (first awarded in 1731).

[edit] Births

• February 24 - Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer and inventor (died 1782)
• March 3 - Andreas Sigismund Marggraf, German chemist (died 1782)
• March 10 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (died 1746)
• April 17 - Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (died 1788)
• July 11 - Johan Gottschalk Wallerius, Swedish chemist and mineralogist (died 1785)
• August 8 - Johann Georg Gmelin, German botanist (died 1755)
• December 25 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher (died 1751)

[edit] Deaths

• June 29 - Antoine Thomas, Belgian Jesuit astronomer in China (born 1644)
• June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, Welsh naturalist (born 1660)