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File:Typographer patent 1829.jpg|link=Typographer (typewriter) (nonfiction)|1829: William Austin Burt patents the [[Typographer (typewriter) (nonfiction)|typographer]], a precursor to the typewriter. | File:Typographer patent 1829.jpg|link=Typographer (typewriter) (nonfiction)|1829: William Austin Burt patents the [[Typographer (typewriter) (nonfiction)|typographer]], a precursor to the typewriter. | ||
File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1885: The well-known illustration ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels| | File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1885: The well-known illustration ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' is stolen by [[math criminals]], who demand computational ransom. | ||
||1886 – Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (d. 1976) | ||1886 – Walter H. Schottky, Swiss-German physicist and engineer (d. 1976) | ||
Revision as of 19:12, 21 July 2017
1829: William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1885: The well-known illustration Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by math criminals, who demand computational ransom.
1928: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin born. She will discover the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta uses Telstar to communicate with AESOP.
1962: Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
2017: AESOP re-broadcasts Walter Cronkite's 1962 trans-Atlantic television program.