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||1882: born: Arnold Dresden was a Dutch-American mathematician in the first part of the twentieth century, known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. Pic. | ||1882: born: Arnold Dresden was a Dutch-American mathematician in the first part of the twentieth century, known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. Pic. | ||
||1887: Henry Moseley born ... physicist and chemist. | ||1887: Henry Moseley born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||
||1889: The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. | ||1889: The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. | ||
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||1905: Otto Stolz born ... mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and infinitesimals. | ||1905: Otto Stolz born ... mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and infinitesimals. | ||
||1907: Lars Leksell born ... physician and neurosurgeon ... invented radiosurgery | ||1907: Lars Leksell born ... physician and neurosurgeon ... invented radiosurgery. | ||
||1910: Octave Chanute dies ... civil engineer and aviation pioneer, born in France. He provided many budding enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers, with help and advice, and helped to publicize their flying experiments. At his death he was hailed as the father of aviation and the heavier-than-air flying machine. Pic. | |||
||1910: Hawley Harvey Crippen dies ... physician and murderer ... telegraph. | ||1910: Hawley Harvey Crippen dies ... physician and murderer ... telegraph. | ||
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1720: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.
1836: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color violet.