The year 1726 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Botany
October 27 –
Caleb Threlkeld publishes Synopsis Stirpium Hibernicarum .....Dispositarum sive Commentatio de Plantis Indigenis praesertim Dublinensibus instituta in
Dublin, the first
flora of
Ireland.[1]
For clocks, the
gridiron pendulum is developed by
John Harrison, as a
pendulum that compensates for temperature errors: a grid of alternating
brass and steel rods is arranged so that the expansion due to heat is
dissipated.[2]