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||1919: Arvid Gerhard Damm files for a patent (Swedish patent #52,279) on a rotor machine | ||1919: Arvid Gerhard Damm files for a patent (Swedish patent #52,279) on a rotor machine | ||
||Pierre Dolbeault (b. October 10, 1924) was a French mathematician. | |||
||1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (b. 1874) | ||1927 – Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer (b. 1874) | ||
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1708: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1730: Physicist and crime-fighter Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit uses precision thermometry to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1888: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1889: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1943: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta accepts commission with secret military-intelligence program ENIAC.
2014: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.