- 1783 in science
The year 1783 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events.Aviation
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June 5 - TheMontgolfier brothers send up at Annonay, nearLyon , an 900 m linen bag inflated with hot air. Its flight covered 2 km and lasted 10 minutes, to an estimated altitude of 1600 - 2000 m
*November 21 - the first free flight by humans in a balloon is made byPilâtre de Rozier andMarquis d'Arlandes who flew aloft for 25 minutes about 100 metres aboveParis for a distance of nine kilometresChemistry
* Discovery of
tungsten - José andFausto Elhuyar find anacid inwolframite which they reduce withcharcoal to isolate tungstenAwards
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Copley Medal :John Goodricke ;Thomas Hutchins Births
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Deaths
* September -
Leonhard Euler , Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1707).
*October 29 -Jean le Rond d'Alembert , mathematician and physicist (born 1717).
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