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The year 1824 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.

Contents 1 Mathematics 2 Technology 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Mathematics

• Niels Henrik Abel partially proves that the general quintic or higher equations cannot be solved by a general formula involving only arithmetical operations and roots.
• Augustin Louis Cauchy proves convergence of the Euler method. In this proof, Cauchy uses the implicit Euler method

[edit] Technology

• Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot scientifically analyzes the efficiency of steam engines.
• Patent issued to Joseph Aspdin for portland cement.
• Louis Braille, at age 15, develops the 6-dot code which allows the visually impaired to read and write faster than raised-letter encoding.

[edit] Awards

• Copley Medal: John Brinkley

[edit] Births

• February 7 - William Huggins (d. 1910), astronomer.
• February 16 - Peter Kozler (d. 1879), cartographer, geographer.
• March 12 - Gustav Kirchhoff (d. 1887), physicist.
• June 26 - William Thomson (d. 1907), Lord Kelvin, physicist.
• June 28 - Paul Broca (d. 1880), anthropologist.
• Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (d. 1877), botanist.

[edit] Deaths