The year 1787 in science and technology involved some significant events.

List of years in science (table)
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Surveying

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Technology

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  1. ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey (1986). Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. pp. 97–98. ISBN 0-262-65038-X.
  2. ^ "Jacques Alexandre César Charles". Centennial of Flight. U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission. 2001. Archived from the original on 2007-02-24. Retrieved 2007-02-23.
  3. ^ *Roy, William (1790). "An Account of the Trigonometrical Operation, Whereby the Distance between the Meridians of the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris Has Been Determined". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 80: 111–254. doi:10.1098/rstl.1790.0015. S2CID 186211548.
  4. ^ Harvey, W. S.; Downs-Rose, G. (1980). "The Improved Atmospheric Engine". William Symington, inventor and engine builder. London: Northgate Publishing. pp. 19–32. ISBN 0-85298-443-X.
  5. ^ "John Wilkinson (1728 – 1808)". History – Historic Figures. BBC. Retrieved 2011-06-29.
  6. ^ van Laun, John (2001). Early Limestone Railways. London: Newcomen Society. pp. 203–4. ISBN 0-904685-09-8.
  7. ^ Occasional Paper. 184, 192. Railway and Canal Historical Society, Early Railway Group.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. ^ McCutcheon, W. Alan (1984). The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland. Belfast: HMSO. p. 16. ISBN 0-8386-3125-8.
  9. ^ "Copley Medal | British scientific award". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 July 2020.