1843 In Science

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The year 1843 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

ASTRONOMY

John Couch Adams predicts the existence and location of Neptune from irregularities in the orbit of Uranus

Heinrich Schwabe reports a periodic change in the number of sunspots: they wax and wane in number according to a ten-year cycle

CHEMISTRY

MATHEMATICS

William Rowan Hamilton discovers the calculus of quaternions and deduces that they are non-commutative

PHYSICS

TECHNOLOGY

Launch of '' SS Great Britain '', the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean

Robert Stirling and his brother James convert a steam engine at a Dundee factory to operate as a Stirling Engine

The first public Telegraph line in the United Kingdom is laid between Paddington and Slough

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