Editing 1807 in science (section)

==Technology==
* July 20 – French brothers [[Claude Niépce|Claude]] and [[Nicéphore Niépce]] receive a [[patent]] for their [[Pyréolophore]], an early [[internal combustion engine]], having demonstrated it powering a boat on the [[Saône]].
* August 17 – [[Robert Fulton]]'s [[North River Steamboat]] makes her first trip from New York City to [[Albany, New York|Albany]].
* November 19 – English inventor [[Lionel Lukin]] launches the world's first sailing self-righting [[Lifeboat (rescue)|rescue life-boat]], the ''Frances Anne'', at [[Lowestoft]].<ref>{{cite book|editor=Malster, Robert|title=The Minute Books of the Suffolk Humane Society... and the world's first sailing lifeboat|location=Woodbridge|publisher=Boydell Press|year=2013|series=Suffolk Records Society, vol. 56|isbn=978-1-84383-805-0}}</ref>
* [[William Cubitt]] patents [[Windmill sail#Patent sails|self-regulating sails]] for [[windmill]]s.<ref>{{cite web|first=Peter|last=Brown|title=Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861)|url=http://www.peter-quita.demon.co.uk/cubitt.htm|accessdate=2011-07-18|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716105157/http://www.peter-quita.demon.co.uk/cubitt.htm|archivedate=16 July 2011 <!--Added by DASHBot-->}}</ref>
* [[Henry Maudslay]] patents an improved [[table engine]].
* [[William Hyde Wollaston]] patents the [[camera lucida]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The camera lucida in art and science|year=1987|publisher=Taylor & Francis|last1=Hammond|first1=John|last2=Austin|first2=Jill}}</ref>