Technology
- February 25 - Thomas Davenport obtains the first United States patent on an electric motor.
- May - Samuel Morse patents his telegraph and exhibits it to the United States Congress.
- June 12 - Cooke and Wheatstone file their patent for the electrical telegraph in the United Kingdom.
- July 19 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship SS Great Western is launched in Bristol.
- July - Godefroy Engelmann of Mulhouse patents chromolithography.
- November 18 - William Crompton patents the cotton power loom in the United States.
- Louis Daguerre's daguerrotype L’Atelier de l'artiste is said to be the earliest known photographic image successfully to undergo the full process of exposure, development and fixation.
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