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The year 1726 in science and technology involved some significant events.

[edit] Technology

• For clocks, the gridiron pendulum is developed by John Harrison, as a pendulum that compensates for temperature errors: a grid of alternating brass and steel rods is arranged so that the heat is dissipated.

[edit] Births

• James Hutton, Scottish geologist (died 1797)

[edit] Deaths

• Guillaume Delisle, French scientist, one of the founders of modern geography (born 1675)