1721 in science
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The year 1721 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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[edit] Medicine
- The use of ether was developed as a pain-killer.
[edit] Technology
- George Graham improves the pendulum clock's accuracy to 1 second per day by compensating for changes in the pendulum's length due to temperature variations.
- In psychology, a suggestion box was developed with the eighth shogun of Japan, Yoshimune Tokugawa.
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[edit] Deaths
- September 11 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist (born 1665)
