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File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1494: Doctor, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] publishes an almanac which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to predict [[crimes against astronomical constants]] with unprecedented accuracy.
File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1494: Doctor, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] publishes an almanac which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to predict [[crimes against astronomical constants]] with unprecedented accuracy.


||1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1694)
||1605: Ismaël Bullialdus born ... astronomer and mathematician.


||Jacob Golius (d. September 28, 1667) was an Orientalist and mathematician based at the University of Leiden in Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, and did Arabic-to-Latin translations. His best-known work is an Arabic-to-Latin dictionary, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653), which he sourced for the most part from the Sihah dictionary of Al-Jauhari and the Qamous dictionary of Fairuzabadi. Pic.
||1667: Jacob Golius dies ... mathematician based at the University of Leiden in Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, and did Arabic-to-Latin translations. His best-known work is an Arabic-to-Latin dictionary, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653), which he sourced for the most part from the Sihah dictionary of Al-Jauhari and the Qamous dictionary of Fairuzabadi. Pic.


||1694 – Gabriel Mouton, French mathematician and theologian (b. 1618)
||1694: Gabriel Mouton dies ... mathematician and theologian.


||George Johnston Allman (28 September 1824 – 9 May 1904) was an Irish professor, mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics.
||1824: George Johnston Allman born ... professor, mathematician, classical scholar, and historian of ancient Greek mathematics.


||1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
||1852: Henri Moissan born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1852 – Isis Pogson, British astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1945)
||1852: Isis Pogson born ... astronomer and meteorologist.


||1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
||1860: Paul Ulrich Villard born ... chemist and physicist.


||1889 – The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.
||1889: The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice.


File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.


||1895 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822) Louis Pasteur (/ˈluːi pæˈstɜːr/, French: [lwi pastœʁ]; December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.
||1895: Louis Pasteur dies ... chemist and microbiologist ... renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.


||Warren Perry Mason (b. 28 September 1900) was an American electrical engineer and physicist working at Bell Labs.  He founded the field of distributed element circuits; was the first to experimentally show viscoelasticity in individual molecules; found experimental evidence of electron-phonon coupling in solids; and made measurements that aided the theories of phonon drag and superconductivity. Pic.
||1900: Warren Perry Mason born ... electrical engineer and physicist working at Bell Labs.  He founded the field of distributed element circuits; was the first to experimentally show viscoelasticity in individual molecules; found experimental evidence of electron-phonon coupling in solids; and made measurements that aided the theories of phonon drag and superconductivity. Pic.


||Kurt Otto Friedrichs (d. September 28, 1901) was a noted German American mathematician.  
||1901: Kurt Otto Friedrichs dies ... mathematician.
 
||1913: Oscar Buneman born ... made advances in science, engineering, and mathematics. Buneman was a pioneer of computational plasma physics and plasma simulation. Pic: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/icnsp/buneman.htm


File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916:  Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.


||1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996)
||1925: Seymour Cray born ... computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company.


File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=David Kruskal (nonfiction)|1925: Physicist and mathematician [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] born. He will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=David Kruskal (nonfiction)|1925: Physicist and mathematician [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] born. He will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.


||1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
||1951: CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.


||1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
||1918: World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.


||1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
||1928: Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.


||Oscar Buneman (b. 28 September 1913) made advances in science, engineering, and mathematics. Buneman was a pioneer of computational plasma physics and plasma simulation.
||1935: William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson dies ... inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
 
||William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson (d. 28 September 1935) was a Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).


File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1953: Astronomer and cosmologist [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]] dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1953: Astronomer and cosmologist [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]] dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.


||Erich Kamke (d. September 28, 1961) was a German mathematician, who specialized in the theory of differential equations. Also, his book on set theory became a standard introduction to the field.
||1961: Erich Kamke dies ... mathematician, who specialized in the theory of differential equations. Also, his book on set theory became a standard introduction to the field.
 
||On 28 September 1969 at about 10:58 local time, near the town of Murchison, Victoria, in Australia, a bright fireball was observed to separate into three fragments before disappearing, leaving a cloud of smoke.


||1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
||1969: At about 10:58 local time, near the town of Murchison, Victoria, in Australia, a bright fireball was observed to separate into three fragments before disappearing, leaving a cloud of smoke.


||1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
||1973: The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.


||1991 – SAC stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under START I, as well as its strategic bomber force.
||1979: John Herbert Chapman dies ... physicist and engineer.


||Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth (d. 28 September 2003) was an American plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for discoveries in controlled thermonuclear fusion, contributions to plasma physics, and work in computational statistical mechanics. Pic.
||1991: SAC stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under START I, as well as its strategic bomber force.


||2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
||2003: Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth dies ... plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for discoveries in controlled thermonuclear fusion, contributions to plasma physics, and work in computational statistical mechanics. Pic.


|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|[[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
||2008: SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.


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Revision as of 20:25, 25 August 2018

  • 1494: Doctor, astronomer, and crime-fighter Johannes Engel publishes an almanac which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict crimes against astronomical constants with unprecedented accuracy.

    1494: Doctor, astronomer, and crime-fighter Johannes Engel publishes an almanac which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict crimes against astronomical constants with unprecedented accuracy.

  • 1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

    1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

  • 1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

    1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.

  • 1925: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal born. He will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.

    1925: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal born. He will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.

  • 1953: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.

    1953: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.

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