1733 In Science
The year 1733 in science and technology involved some significant events. Physiology and medicine * Rev. Stephen Hales publishes ''Hæmastaticks'', the second volume of his ''Statical Essays'', in London, containing the results of his experiments in measuring blood pressure. Inventions * May 26 – The flying shuttle loom is patented by John Kay, making weaving faster and increasing demand for yarn. * The perambulator or pram (a baby carriage) is invented by English architect William Kent for children of the 3rd Duke of Devonshire. * The achromatic refracting lens is invented by English barrister Chester Moore Hall. Mathematics * Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri studies what geometry would be like if the parallel postulate (Euclid's fifth) were false. * Abraham de Moivre introduces the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution in probability. Births * January 18 – Kaspar Friedrich Wolff, German people, German surgeon and physiologist (died 1794 in science, ...
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