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||1892 – Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1962) | ||1892 – Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (d. 1962) | ||
File:Charles Sanders Peirce in 1859.jpg|link=Charles Sanders Peirce (nonfiction)| | File:Charles Sanders Peirce in 1859.jpg|link=Charles Sanders Peirce (nonfiction)|Charles Sanders Peirce (nonfiction)|1891: [[Charles Sanders Peirce (nonfiction)|Charles Sanders Peirce]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Dmitrii Evgenevich Menshov (b. 18 April 1892) was a Russian mathematician known for his contributions to the theory of trigonometric series. No pic. | ||Dmitrii Evgenevich Menshov (b. 18 April 1892) was a Russian mathematician known for his contributions to the theory of trigonometric series. No pic. | ||
Revision as of 21:23, 13 April 2018
1796: Physicist Johan Carl Wilcke dies. He invented the electrophorus, and calculated the latent heat of ice.
1891: Charles Sanders Peirce publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1945: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming dies. He invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.
1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein dies. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
1963: Vandal Savage Press is front for clandestiphrine manufacturing operation, says crime-fighter John Brunner.