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||1825: Joseph Thomas Clover born ... doctor and pioneer of anaesthesia. He invented a variety of pieces of apparatus to deliver anaesthetics including ether and chloroform safely and controllably. By 1871 he had administered anaesthetics 13,000 times without a fatality. Pic. | ||1825: Joseph Thomas Clover born ... doctor and pioneer of anaesthesia. He invented a variety of pieces of apparatus to deliver anaesthetics including ether and chloroform safely and controllably. By 1871 he had administered anaesthetics 13,000 times without a fatality. Pic. | ||
||1838: Maurice Lévy born ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to total strain theory ... "the directions of increments of principal strains coincide with those of the principal stresses" and that was also the first attempt of using an incremental flow rule. Pic. | |||
||1844: A gun on USS ''Princeton'' explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people, including two United States Cabinet members. | ||1844: A gun on USS ''Princeton'' explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people, including two United States Cabinet members. | ||
||1849: Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, four months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor. | ||1849: Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS ''California'' in San Francisco Bay, four months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor. | ||
||1875: Goldsworthy Gurney dies ... surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder. He was a prototypical British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian era. Pic. | ||1875: Goldsworthy Gurney dies ... surgeon, chemist, lecturer, consultant, architect, builder. He was a prototypical British gentleman scientist and inventor of the Victorian era. Pic. | ||
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||1885: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.) | ||1885: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.) | ||
||1900: Wolf Hirth born ... German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth. | ||1900: Wolf Hirth born ... German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth. Pic (cool aero). | ||
File:Linus Pauling.jpg|link=Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|1901: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator [[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] born. | File:Linus Pauling.jpg|link=Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|1901: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator [[Linus Pauling (nonfiction)|Linus Pauling]] born. | ||
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1533: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne born. He will be one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1552: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi born. He will be recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1692: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to rewrite existing manuscripts using satirical premises.
1901: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling born.
1944: Der Reichsspritzenmeister develops new drug to stimulate crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Steganographic analysis of excerpt from "Burglars" unexpected reveals "at least half a gigabyte of encrypted data, probably related to the ENIAC program".