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||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (b. October 4, 1841) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist. | ||Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (b. October 4, 1841) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist. | ||
||Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D., LL.D. (Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Идворски Пупин, pronounced [miˈxǎjlo ˈîdʋoɾski ˈpǔpin]; 4 October 1858[3][4] – 12 March 1935), also known as Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). | |||
||1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802) | ||1864 – Joseph Montferrand, Canadian logger and strongman (b. 1802) | ||
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1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.
1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.
1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for five hundred thousand dollars.