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File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." | File:Sir Richard Arkwright by Mather Brown 1790.jpg|link=Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Richard Arkwright (nonfiction)|Richard Arkwright]] dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." | ||
||William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson (b. 3 August 1860) 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:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1916: Well-known illustration ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' is exhibited in Paris for the first time. | File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1916: Well-known illustration ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' is exhibited in Paris for the first time. | ||
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||1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (d. 1999) Sidney Gottlieb (born Joseph Scheider; August 3, 1918 – March 7, 1999) was an American chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra. | ||1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (d. 1999) Sidney Gottlieb (born Joseph Scheider; August 3, 1918 – March 7, 1999) was an American chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra. | ||
||1929 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857) | |||
||1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) Emile Berliner (d. August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the Gramophone. | ||1929 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) Emile Berliner (d. August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the Gramophone. | ||
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||1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. | ||1948 – Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. | ||
||1958 – US Nuclear submarine, Nautiluss, the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole. | |||
||1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers. | ||1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers. | ||
||2012 – Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic (b. 1927) | |||
File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' feels more green than ever, according to new [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|chromatographic analysis]]. | File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' feels more green than ever, according to new [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|chromatographic analysis]]. | ||
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Revision as of 22:06, 29 October 2017
1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system."
1916: Well-known illustration The Eel Time-Surfing 2 is exhibited in Paris for the first time.
1917: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
1943: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses Gnomon algorithm functions to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Green Spiral 9 feels more green than ever, according to new chromatographic analysis.