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||1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. | |||
||1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1688) | |||
||1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. | |||
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] dies. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. | File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] dies. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. | ||
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1800: Poet-Wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1800: Poet-Wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | ||
||1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. | |||
||1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. | |||
||1843 – William Hedley, English engineer (b. 1773) | |||
File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1848: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] dies. She discovered several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. | File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1848: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] dies. She discovered several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. | ||
||1864 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1926) | |||
||1868 – S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist and academic (d. 1939) | |||
||1870 – Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge (d. 1938) | |||
File:Telephone exchange operator circa 1900.jpg|link=Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|1894: New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated [[Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|telephone switchboard]] in Lexington, Massachusetts. (Shown here: another telephone exchange circa 1900.) | File:Telephone exchange operator circa 1900.jpg|link=Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|1894: New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated [[Telephone switchboard (nonfiction)|telephone switchboard]] in Lexington, Massachusetts. (Shown here: another telephone exchange circa 1900.) | ||
||1901 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973) | |||
||1916 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (d. 2004) | |||
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]." | File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]." | ||
||1917 – Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist (b. 1853) | |||
||1918 – Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844) | |||
||1922 – Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate (d. 2011) | |||
||1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. | |||
|File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1924: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] and [[Jan Kochanowski]] share research data, discover new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions. | |File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1924: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] and [[Jan Kochanowski]] share research data, discover new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions. | ||
||1975 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1901) | |||
||1998 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) | |||
||2000 – Arnold Alexander Hall, English engineer and academic (b. 1915) | |||
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Revision as of 22:11, 22 October 2017
1799: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi dies. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
1800: Poet-Wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1848: Astronomer Caroline Herschel dies. She discovered several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
1894: New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. (Shown here: another telephone exchange circa 1900.)
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."