The year 1726 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Technology

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 heat is dissipated.[1]

Publications

Johann Beringer publishes Lithographiæ Wirceburgensis describing hoax fossils.[2]

Births

June 3 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)
Thomas Melvill, Scottish natural philosopher (d. 1753)

Deaths

January 25 - Guillaume Delisle, French scientist, one of the founders of modern geography (b. 1675)

References

^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Gould, Stephen Jay (2000). The Lying Stones of Marrakech. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-609-60142-3.