Editing 1837 in science (section)

==Technology==
* February 25 – [[Thomas Davenport (inventor)|Thomas Davenport]] obtains the first United States [[patent]] on an [[electric motor]].<ref>U.S. Patent No. 132. {{cite web|title=Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism And Electro-Magnetism|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US132|publisher=Google patents|access-date=2011-12-13}}</ref>
* May – [[Samuel Morse]] patents his telegraph and exhibits it to the [[United States Congress]].
* June 12 – [[William Fothergill Cooke|Cooke]] and [[Charles Wheatstone|Wheatstone]] file their patent for the [[electrical telegraph]] in the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Stephen|last=van Dulken|title=Inventing the 19th Century|location=London|publisher=[[British Library]]|year=2001|isbn=0-7123-0881-4|pages=82–3}}</ref>
* July 19 – [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]]'s paddle steamer {{SS|Great Western}} is launched in [[Bristol]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
* July – [[Godefroy Engelmann]] of [[Mulhouse]] [[patent]]s [[chromolithography]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ferry|first=Kathryn|title=Printing the Alhambra: Owen Jones and Chromolithography|journal=Architectural History|volume=46|year=2003|pages=175–188}}</ref>
* November 18 – [[William Crompton (inventor)|William Crompton]] patents the cotton [[power loom]] in the United States.<ref>U.S. Patent No. 491.</ref>
* [[Louis Daguerre]]'s [[daguerrotype]] ''[[:File:Daguerreotype Daguerre Atelier 1837.jpg|L’Atelier de l'artiste]]'' is said to be the earliest known photographic image successfully to undergo the full process of [[Exposure (photography)|exposure]], [[Photographic processing|development]] and fixation.<ref>{{cite book|last=Carlisle|first=Rodney P.|title=Scientific American Inventions and Discoveries: All the Milestones in Ingenuity – From the Discovery of Fire to the Invention of the Microwave Oven|location=New Jersey|publisher=Wiley|year=2004|isbn=0-471-24410-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/scientificameric0000carl}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Stokstad|first=Marilyn|authorlink=Marilyn Stokstad|author2=Cateforis, David|author3= Addiss, Stephen|title=Art History|publisher=Pearson Education|year=2005|location=Upper Saddle River, New Jersey|pages=964–967|edition=2nd|isbn=0-13-145527-3}}</ref>
* [[Camille Polonceau]] patents the Polonceau [[truss]].
* The first [[electric locomotive]] built is a miniature [[battery locomotive]] constructed by chemist [[Robert Davidson (inventor)|Robert Davidson]] of [[Aberdeen]] in [[Scotland]], and  powered by [[galvanic cell]]s (batteries).