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The year 1721 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Contents 1 Medicine 2 Technology 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Medicine

• The use of ether was developed as a pain-killer.

[edit] Technology

• George Graham improves the pendulum clock's accuracy to 1 second per day by compensating for changes in the pendulum's length due to temperature variations.
• In psychology, a suggestion box was developed with the eighth shogun of Japan, Yoshimune Tokugawa.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• September 11 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist (born 1665)