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General

1803 Maltus publishes 2nd edition of his Essay... population (that 'moral restraint might prevent famine from over- population); 1804 Appert- food canning as means of preparation, opens 1st canning factory & invents buillion cube

1805 Jacquard's punch-card operated loom; 1806 Bramah invents numerical printing machine (for bank notes)

1810 U of Berlin founded (1st U to emphasize research over education); 1811 Hahnemann publishes catalog of homeopathic drugs; 1814 London's 'The Times'printed by steam-driven printing press

1818 Louis- Jacques Thenard accidently discovers hydrogen perioxide; 1819 The 'Savannah' 1st steamship to cross Atlantic (but used sails 80% of way)

1820 Catholic Church lifts ban on teaching Copernican System (after nearly 3 centuries); Spanish Inquistion abolished

Science

1801 Bode's *Uranographia* atlas of 17,240 stars, nebulas; Lamarck's *Systeme des animaux sans vertebres* (System for Animals without Vertebras) Ritter discovers existence of ultraviolet radiation; 1802 Stevens' propeller -driven steamboat;

1805 J. F. Blumenbach founds science of Anthropology; G. Cuvier *Lecons d'anatomie comparee* (begins comparative anatomy); 1808 Franz Gall, concept of Phrenology; Trevithick- circular passenger railway (London); 1809 Lamarck's *Philosophie Zoologique*

1811 Mary Anning (12 yrs old) discovers 33 ft. long fossil- Ichthyosaur (1st); 1814 Stephenson's 1st steam locomotive

1816 Johann Maelzel patents metronome; Sir Marc Brunel invents round stocking frame; 1819 William Lawrence *Lectures on Physiology, Zoology and the Natural History of Man* human species unique (but consists of many races)

1820 Mary Anning (21 yrs old) discovers 1st known fossil of Plesiousaur; 1822 Joseph Niepce- 1st photograph (on metal); Charles Babbage develops the 'Difference Engine' a machine to calculate logarithms, trig functions

Social Science

1812 Benjamin Rush's *Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind* attempts to explain mental disorders

1817 James Parkinson's *An Essay on the Shaking Palsy* (describes Parkinsons Disease)

1821 James Mill *Elements of Political Economy* (includes idea that value is based on what goes into some thing)

Science Fiction

1810 JULIUS VON VOSS *Ini. Ein Roman aus dem einundzwanzigsten Jahrhundert*

1817 MARY SHELLEY *Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

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