In 1824 to reduce the impact of this destructive electrolytic action on ships hulls, their fastenings and underwater equipment, the Victorian scientist-engineer Sir Humphry Davy, developed the first and still most widely used marine electrolysis protection system.

" In addition to the various works of Brewster already mentioned, the following may be added: Notes and Introduction to Carlyle's translation of Legendre's Elements of Geometry ( 1824 ); Treatise on Optics ( 1831 ); Letters on Natural Magic, addressed to Sir Walter Scott ( 1832 ); The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler ( 1841 ); More Worlds than One ( 1854 ).

The palace complex was substantially remodelled once again, this time by Sir John Soane, between 1824 and 1827.

* Sir Benjamin Heywood, a prosperous banker, acted as President of the Mechanics ' Institute for the period 1824 – 1841 ; his son, Oliver subsequently became President.

* May 12 – Sir William Huggins, British astronomer ( b. 1824 )

* January 22, 1824 – The Ashanti crush British forces in the Gold Coast, killing the British governor Sir Charles MacCarthy ( see also Wars between Britain and Ashanti in Ghana and Ashanti Confederacy ).

* Sir Thomas Maitland ( 1759 – 1824 ) 1815 – 1823

He married Caroline Knox, a daughter of Sir Thomas George Knox, the British consul-general in Bangkok ( 1824 – 1887 ), and his Thai wife, Prang Yen.

* Sir John Austin, 1st Baronet ( 1824 – 1906 ), British politician, MP for Osgoldcross, 1886 – 1906

Hovell published two pamphlets Reply to " A Brief Statement of Facts in Connection with an Overland Expedition from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824 ", and an Answer to the Preface to the Second Edition of Mr Hamilton Hume's " A Brief Statement of Facts ", ( for a balanced discussion of the merits of the case see paper by professor Sir Ernest Scott in Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.

* Sir Alexander Campbell, 1st Baronet ( 1760 – 1824 ), British general

It was in the Cobb harbour, after the great storm of 1824, that Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN carried out his pioneering lifeboat design work.

In 1824 Sir William Edward Parry took canned beef and pea soup with him on his voyage to the Arctic in HMS Fury, during his search for a northwestern passage to India.

In 1825 Lockhart accepted the editorship of the Quarterly Review, which had been in the hands of Sir John Taylor Coleridge since William Gifford's resignation in 1824.

* Sir John Franklin ( 1786-1847 ) – British explorer, surveyed the coast of the Polar Sea between 1819 and 1824 ; died on his final Arctic expedition in 1845.

His huge sarcophagus, carved in one piece and intricately decorated on every surface ( including the goddess Nut on the interior base ), is in Sir John Soane's Museum, in London, England ; Soane bought it for exhibition in his open collection in 1824, when the British Museum refused to pay the £ 2, 000 demanded.

Cathodic protection was first described by Sir Humphry Davy in a series of papers presented to the Royal Society in London in 1824.

He married Harriet Webster, the daughter of Kentville's Dr. Isaac Webster in 1824, then went to London to study medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital under Sir Astley Paston Cooper, then surgery at Guy's Hospital under John Abernethy.

In 1824 Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane asked Hovell to join with Hamilton Hume to undertake the exploration of what is now southern New South Wales and Victoria in an attempt to obtain more information about any rivers that might run south in the direction of Spencer Gulf.

In 1824 the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Thomas Brisbane, commissioned Hamilton Hume and former Royal Navy Captain William Hovell to lead an expedition to find new grazing land in the south of the colony, and also to find an answer to the mystery of where New South Wales's western rivers flowed.

In 1824, newly appointed Sir Thomas Brisbane, who disbelieved this statement, offered to land a party of prisoners near Wilson's Promontory and grant them a free pardon, as well as a grant of land, to those who found their way overland to Sydney.

After the fire of 1795 the house remained a ruin for the first quarter of the 19th century until, in 1824 the estate was purchased by Sir George Warrender, 4th Baronet.

Portrait of Payne Knight by Thomas Lawrence ( painter ) | Sir Thomas LawrenceRichard Payne Knight ( 15 February 1750 – 23 April 1824 ) was a classical scholar, connoisseur, archaeologist and numismatist best known for his theories of picturesque beauty and for his interest in ancient phallic imagery.

In 1824, Sir John erected the colony's finest Georgian mansion, Regentville House, near Penrith, on a ridge overlooking the Nepean River.

During Rossini's stay in London in the summer of 1824, he composed his Duetto for cello and double bass for Dragonetti and the cellist David Salomons.

David created his last great work, Mars Being Disarmed by Venus and the Three Graces, from 1822 to 1824.

David Steele, from Upper Creevaugh, was a prominent Reformed Presbyterian, or Covenanter, minister who emigrated to the United States in 1824.

* David Bruce ( minister ) ( 1824 – 1911 ), Presbyterian minister, journalist

* David Bushnell ( 1740 – 1824 ), American inventor who built the first submarine ever used in combat.

* David W. Ballard ( 1824 – 1875 ), governor of Idaho territory

* David James Jenkins ( 1824 – 1891 ), British MP for Penryn and Falmouth, 1874 – 1885

* David L. Morril, US senator ; 16th governor of New Hampshire ( 1824 – 1827 )

: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it

She was the daughter of Juliana McLachlan-Gardiner and David Gardiner, a prominent landowner and New York State Senator from 1824 to 1828.

David Bushnell ( 1740 – 1824 ), of Westbrook, Connecticut, was an American inventor during the Revolutionary War.

He died in 1824, but before he died David was honored with a medal by George Washington.

In 1819, with Sir David Brewster ( 1781 – 1868 ), Jameson started the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal and became its sole editor in 1824.

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson ( also given as Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Triosson, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson ) January 5, 1767 – December 9, 1824 ), was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who was part of the beginning of the Romantic movement by adding elements of eroticism through his paintings.

The Watzmann by Caspar David Friedrich, 1824 – 1825 ( Berlin ).

* 1950: The Forsaken Garden: An Anthology of Poetry 1824 – 1909, edited with David Wright

David McKendree Key ( January 27, 1824 – February 3, 1900 ) was a Democratic U. S. Senator from Tennessee from 1875 to 1877 as well as the U. S. Postmaster General under President Hayes.

* David Howell ( jurist ) ( 1747 – 1824 ), American jurist, Continental Congressman for Rhode Island

Among its leaders were Charles Bell ( 1774 – 1843 ) and François Magendie ( 1783 – 1855 ) who independently discovered the distinction between sensory and motor nerves in the spinal column, Johannes Müller ( 1801 – 1855 ) who proposed the doctrine of specific nerve energies, Emil du Bois-Reymond ( 1818 – 1896 ) who studied the electrical basis of muscle contraction, Pierre Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ) and Carl Wernicke ( 1848 – 1905 ) who identified areas of the brain responsible for different aspects of language, as well as Gustav Fritsch ( 1837 – 1927 ), Eduard Hitzig ( 1839 – 1907 ), and David Ferrier ( 1843 – 1924 ) who localized sensory and motor areas of the brain.

The house and estate had literary and artistic connections: James had purchased it in 1824 from Perry Nursey, the landscape painter and teacher of Thomas Churchyard ; Nursey had often entertained David Wilkie RA at Little Bealings, and was friends with Edward Fitzgerald, translator of The Rubayat of Omar Khayyam.