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In 1839, William Smith Otis, civil engineer of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was issued a US patent for the steam shovel ( No. 1, 089 ) for excavating and ( removing earth ).
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William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.
* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )
On her return to Haworth, she met William Weightman ( 1814 – 1842 ), her father's new curate, who started work in the parish in August 1839.
In the United States the first water caterpillar was patented in 1839 by William Leavenworth of New York.
** William Erasmus Darwin ( 1839 – 1914 ), eldest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )
William Grove produced the first fuel cell in 1839.
William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ), an English canal engineer, observed that rocks of different ages ( based on the law of superposition ) preserved different assemblages of fossils, and that these assemblages succeeded one another in a regular and determinable order.
Welsh Physicist William Grove developed the first crude fuel cells in 1839.
Sketch of William Grove's 1839 fuel cell
Based on this work, the first fuel cell was demonstrated by Welsh scientist and barrister Sir William Robert Grove in the February 1839 edition of the Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science and later sketched, in 1842, in the same journal.
William Smith ( 1769 – 1839 ) drew some of the first geological maps and began the process of ordering rock strata ( layers ) by examining the fossils contained in them.
* 1839 – William H. Seward, Jr., American general ( d. 1920 )
* Sir William Reid ( b. April 25, 1791, Kinglassie-d. October 31, 1858, London, England ), governor of Bermuda ( 1839 – 46 ), Barbados ( 1846 – 48 ), and Malta ( 1851 – 58 ); knighted 1851
In 1839 William I became a party to the Treaty of London.
The lyrics written in 1841 describe a then – disunited Germany with the river as its western boundary, where King William I of the Netherlands had joined the German Confederation with his Duchy of Limburg in 1839.
* 1774 – Lord William Bentinck, English soldier and statesman, 14th Governor-General of India ( d. 1839 )
In late 1839, the Whigs held their first national convention and nominated William Henry Harrison as their presidential candidate.
Photography was realized in 1839 by Louis Daguerre in France and William Fox Talbot in the UK.
Hence, William Hallowes Miller in 1839 was able to give each face a unique label of three small integers, the Miller indices which are still used today for identifying crystal faces.
* August 21 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor ( d. 1839 )
* March 23 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer ( d. 1839 )
In the same year on 9 June William I became also the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and after 1839 he was furthermore the Duke of Limburg.
In 1839, William was forced to end the war.
The Afan was diverted and a dock was opened in 1839 named for the Talbot family, local landowners who were related to the pioneer photographer, William Henry Fox Talbot.
William I, King of the Netherlands, would refuse to recognize a Belgian state until 1839, when he had to yield under pressure by the Treaty of London.
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Joseph Smith also identified the term evangelist with the office of patriarch in 1839, stating that " an Evangelist is a Patriarch ".
* 1752 – Samuel Smith, American politician ( d. 1839 )
In 1839, Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement visited Van Buren to plead for the U. S. to help roughly 20, 000 Mormon settlers of Independence, Missouri, who were forced from the state during the 1838 Mormon War there.
" In 1839, after moving to Illinois, Smith and his party appealed to members of Congress and to President Van Buren to intercede for the Mormons.
* Augustin Smith Clayton, ( 1783 – 1839 ) a jurist and politician from the American state of Georgia.
Peel had studied the works of Adam Smith, David Hume and Ricardo and proclaimed during 1839: " I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes ".
William ' Strata ' Smith ( 23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839 ) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map.
Between 1839 and 1856 the newsagent and future First Lord of the Admiralty William Henry Smith lived in a house to the west of Kilburn High Road.
* William Smith ( geologist ) ( 1769 – 1839 ), English geologist
* William Smith ( geologist ) ( 1769 – 1839 ), British geologist credited with making the first national geological map
* William Smith ( Yorkshire cricketer ) ( 1839 – 1897 ), first class cricketer for Yorkshire
James Monroe Smith ( 1839 – 1915 ) renowned agriculturist and plantation owner of historic Smithonia.
The county was established in 1858 and named in honor of Augustin Smith Clayton ( 1783 – 1839 ), who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1832 until 1835.
Smith moved with his parents to Wedowee in 1839, at the age of 13.
Originally known as Ingle Mills, it was renamed by resident Tom Carroll for unknown reasons in honor of Nauvoo, Illinois, a city founded by Mormon prophet Joseph Smith in 1839.
While many local historians had interpreted the name as a Native American word, the origin of " Nauvoo " is Sephardic Hebrew, from the same word that Mormon leader Joseph Smith gave to the Illinois town he founded in 1839.
The improved Ft. Smith to Ft. Towson military road of 1839 passed along the east side of Rattan ( 1. 17 miles east of the OK 93 junction with OK 3 ) after crossing the " Seven Devils " on its way southeast to Spencer Academy and Doaksville.
* George Byron Smith ( 1839 – after 1894 ), Ontario merchant and political figure
For example, Smith taught in an 1839 sermon that Adam was actually the archangel Michael who held the First Presidency in the premortal life.
* March 3-Sydney Smith, English composer and pianist ( b. 1839 )
William Smith Otis died on November, 13, 1839 at the age of 26.
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