The year 1819 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here.

Contents

1 Technology 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

Technology

• Invention of the Breech loading flintlock by John Hall
• Invention of the Stethoscope by Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec

Awards

• Copley Medal: Not awarded

Births

• June 5 - John Couch Adams (d. 1892), mathematician and astronomer.
• August 13 - George Gabriel Stokes (d. 1903), mathematician and physicist.
• September 18 - Léon Foucault (d. 1868), physicist.
• September 23 - Hippolyte Fizeau (d. 1896), physicist.

Deaths

• August 19 - James Watt (b. 1736), mathematician and engineer.