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||Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler (b. 26 May 1814) was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube. | ||Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler (b. 26 May 1814) was a skilled glassblower and physicist, famous for his invention of the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge tube. | ||
||Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue (b. 2 March 1838) was a Baltic German marine engineer and founder of a theory of magnetic deviation for magnetic compasses, living and working in Imperial Russia. Pic. | |||
||Heinrich Biltz (b. May 26, 1865) was a German chemist and academic. Pic. | ||Heinrich Biltz (b. May 26, 1865) was a German chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
Revision as of 12:40, 5 May 2018
1667: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre born. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, will be prized by gamblers.
2016: New autobiography by Didacus automaton accuses Baron Zersetzung of crimes against mathematical constants.
1895: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange born.
1936: Enrico Fermi publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.