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||1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862) telegraph | ||1910 – Hawley Harvey Crippen, American physician and murderer (b. 1862) telegraph | ||
||Marshall Glecker Holloway (b. November 23, 1912) was an American physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic. | |||
||Charles Bourseul (d. 23 November 1912) was a pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone. | ||Charles Bourseul (d. 23 November 1912) was a pioneer in development of the "make and break" telephone about 20 years before Bell made a practical telephone. | ||
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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.