The year 1848 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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- March 8 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson (died 1919), American inventor.
- April 9 – Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti (died 1930), British-born electrical engineer and inventor
- May 23 – Otto Lilienthal (died 1896), German aviation pioneer.
- June 12 – Albertina Carlsson (died 1930) Swedish zoologist.
- June 22 – William Macewen (died 1924), Scottish surgeon.
- July 7 – Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird (died 1939), English surgeon.
- July 27 – Loránd Eötvös (died 1919), Hungarian physicist.
- August 14 – Margaret Lindsay (died 1915), Irish astronomer.
- November 1 – Caroline Still Anderson (died 1919), African American physician, educator and activist.
- November 8 – Gottlob Frege (died 1925), German mathematician.
- November 27 – Henry A. Rowland (died 1901), American physicist.
Year-book of Facts. 1848.
Boucher, A. (1848). "Note sur la construction des voûtes biaises au moyen d'une série d'arcs droits accolés les uns aux autres" [Notes on the construction of skewed vaults by means of a series of right arches built one against the other]. Annales des Ponts et Chaussées. Paris: 234–243.