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||1903 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818) | ||1903 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818) | ||
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and crime-fighter [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube. | |||
||1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) | ||1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) | ||
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File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. | File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. | ||
File:Enter_or_Exit_midsize_sketch.jpg|Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from ''[[Game of Chance (Gnomon Chronicles)|Game of Chance]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data." | File:Enter_or_Exit_midsize_sketch.jpg|Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from ''[[Game of Chance (Gnomon Chronicles)|Game of Chance]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data." | ||
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1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.
1648: Niels Steensen analyzes fossil trilobite using Gnomon algorithm techniques, finds evidence of crimes against geological constants.
1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.
1904: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."
