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1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. | |||
1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. | |||
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. | |||
1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. | |||
1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. | |||
1864 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1926) | |||
1916 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (d. 2004) | |||
1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1688) | |||
1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718) | |||
1918 – Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844) | |||
Revision as of 10:13, 21 December 2016
Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1924: Hilbert curve and Jan Kochanowski share research data, discover new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
1864 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1926)
1916 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (d. 2004)
1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1688)
1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718)
1918 – Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844)