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Science on the 26th of July in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
26 Jul 1609 English	science	English (astronomy) English scientist Thomas Harriot becomes the first to draw an astronomical object after viewing it through a telescope: he draws a map of the Moon, preceding Galileo by several months.	0
26 Jul 1699 William Dampier	science	William Dampier (exploration) William Dampier's expedition to New Holland (Australia) in HMS Roebuck reaches Dirk Hartog Island at the mouth of what he calls Shark Bay in Western Australia and begins producing the first known detailed record of Australian flora and fauna.	0
26 Jul 1776 Pierre Fouquier	science	birth Pierre Fouquier Pierre Fouquier, French physician (died 1850)	0
26 Jul 1803 Surrey Iron Railway	science	Surrey Iron Railway (transport) The Surrey Iron Railway, a wagonway between Wandsworth and Croydon, is opened, being the first public railway line in England.	0
26 Jul 1815 Robert Remak	science	birth Robert Remak Robert Remak, Polish/Prussian embryologist (died 1865)	0
26 Jul 1820 Union Chain Bridge	science	Union Chain Bridge (technology) Opening of Union Chain Bridge across the River Tweed between England and Scotland, designed by Captain Samuel Brown. Its span of 449 ft (137 metres) is the longest in the Western world at this time, and it is the first wrought iron vehicular suspension bridge bridge of its type in Britain.	0
26 Jul 1845 Isambard Kingdom Brunel	science	Isambard Kingdom Brunel (transport) August 10 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s iron steamship Great Britain makes the Transatlantic Crossing from Liverpool to New York, the first screw propelled vessel to make the passage.	0
26 Jul 1861 Ægidius Elling	science	birth Ægidius Elling Ægidius Elling (died 1949), Norwegian gas turbine pioneer.	0
26 Jul 1875 Carl Jung	science	birth Carl Jung Carl Jung (died 1961), Swiss psychiatrist	0
26 Jul 1887 L. L. Zamenhof	science	L. L. Zamenhof (linguistics) L. L. Zamenhof publishes Lingvo internacia ("International language") under the pseudonym "Doktoro Esperanto".	0
26 Jul 1899 Bill Hamilton	science	birth Bill Hamilton Bill Hamilton (died 1978), New Zealand mechanical engineer.	0
26 Jul 1919 James Lovelock	science	birth James Lovelock James Lovelock, English environmentalist and futurologist.	0
26 Jul 1925 Gottlob Frege	science	death Gottlob Frege Gottlob Frege (born 1848), mathematician.	0
26 Jul 1941 Henri Lebesgue	science	death Henri Lebesgue Henri Lebesgue (born 1875), French mathematician.	0
26 Jul 1971 Apollo program	science	Apollo program (astronomy and space ) Apollo program: Launch of Apollo 15. On July 31 the Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover a day after landing on the surface.	0
26 Jul 1989 grand jury	science	grand jury (computer science) A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the United States.	0

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