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||Giambattista Benedetti (b. August 14, 1530) was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music. Pic (book cover).
||1530: Giambattista Benedetti born ... was an Italian mathematician from Venice who was also interested in physics, mechanics, the construction of sundials, and the science of music. Pic (book cover).


File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.


||Charles Hutton FRS FRSE LLD (b. 14 August 1737) was an English mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion.
||1737: Charles Hutton born ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion.


File:Pierre Bouguer.jpg|link=Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|Pierre Bouguer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against geology]].
File:Pierre Bouguer.jpg|link=Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|Pierre Bouguer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against geology]].
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File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1777: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.
File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1777: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.


||Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE (b. 14 August 1842) was a French mathematician.
||1842: Jean-Gaston Darboux born ... mathematician.


File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1843: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on his study of the optical effects of color.  He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1843: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on his study of the optical effects of color.  He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1848 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer and author (d. 1915)
||1848: Margaret Lindsay Huggins born ... astronomer and author (d. 1915)


|link=W. W. Rouse Ball (nonfiction)|Walter William Rouse Ball, known as W. W. Rouse Ball (b. 14 August 1850), was a British mathematician, lawyer, and fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1878 to 1905. He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.
|link=W. W. Rouse Ball (nonfiction)|Walter William Rouse Ball, known as W. W. Rouse Ball (b. 14 August 1850), was a British mathematician, lawyer, and fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1878 to 1905. He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.


||1865 – Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1952) Guido Castelnuovo (14 August 1865 – 27 April 1952) was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant.
||1865: Guido Castelnuovo born ... mathematician and academic best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability theory are also significant.


||1866 – Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (d. 1962)
||1866: Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin born ... mathematician and academic.


||1885 – Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
||1885: Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.


||1886 – Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic (d. 1950). Pic.
||1886: Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic (d. 1950). Pic.


||Edmond Nicolas Laguerre (d. August 14, 1886) was a French mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). Laguerre's method is a root-finding algorithm tailored to polynomials.
||1886: Edmond Nicolas Laguerre dies ... mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). Laguerre's method is a root-finding algorithm tailored to polynomials.


||Eric Magnus Campbell Tigerstedt (b. August 14, 1887) was one of the most significant inventors in Finland at the beginning of the 20th century and has been called the "Thomas Edison of Finland". He was a pioneer of sound-on-film technology and made significant improvements to the amplification capacity of the vacuum valve. Pic.
||1887: Eric Magnus Campbell Tigerstedt born ... inventor ... "Thomas Edison of Finland". He was a pioneer of sound-on-film technology and made significant improvements to the amplification capacity of the vacuum valve. Pic.


||Julio Rey Pastor (b. 14 August 1888) was a Spanish mathematician and historian of science.
||1888: Julio Rey Pastor born ... mathematician and historian of science.


||1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
||1888: An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.


||1890 – Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman (d. 1946) - Zyklon B
||1890: Bruno Tesch born ... chemist and businessman ... Zyklon B


||1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
||1893: France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.


File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1888: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] born.  He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1888: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] born.  He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
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File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|1889:  Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]].
File:The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling.jpg|link=The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling|1889:  Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling]]'' sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]].


||1901 – The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
||1901: The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.


||Léon Rosenfeld (b. 14 August 1904) was a Belgian physicist and Marxist. Pic.
||1904: Léon Rosenfeld born ... physicist and Marxist. Pic.


||Cornelis Jacobus (Cor) Gorter (b. 14 August 1907) was a Dutch experimental and theoretical physicist. Among other work, he discovered paramagnetic relaxation and was a pioneer in low temperature physics.
||1907: Cornelis Jacobus (Cor) Gorter born ... experimental and theoretical physicist. Among other work, he discovered paramagnetic relaxation and was a pioneer in low temperature physics.


File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
File:William Stanley.jpg|link=William Stanley (nonfiction)|1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist [[William Stanley (nonfiction)|William Stanley]] dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
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File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1910: "''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' does not show me committing a [[math crime]]," says art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]]. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed.  And I found it."
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1910: "''[[The Safe-Cracker]]'' does not show me committing a [[math crime]]," says art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]]. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed.  And I found it."


||1912 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1985)
||1912: Frank Oppenheimer born ... physicist and academic.


||Delbert Ray Fulkerson (b. August 14, 1924) was an American mathematician who co-developed the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, one of the most well-known algorithms to solve the maximum flow problem in networks. Pic.
||1919: Richard Darwin Keynes  ... physiologist who did pioneering work on the mechanisms underlying the conduction of the action potential along nerve fibres. Early in his career, he worked with the giant nerve fibers of squid, which would help discover how nerve impulses are transmitted in all animals. In later resarch, he determined how electric eels project electric fields outside their bodies. Keynes was the first to use radioactive sodium and potassium tracer atoms to follow the movements of these atoms when an impulse is transmitted along a nerve fibre. He has written extensively about the life and work of his great-grandfather, Charles Darwin, beginning with The Beagle Record (1979). Pic not Wikipedia.


||1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
||1924: Delbert Ray Fulkerson born ...mathematician who co-developed the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, one of the most well-known algorithms to solve the maximum flow problem in networks. Pic.
 
||1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.


||1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
||1941 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)

Revision as of 20:25, 14 August 2018

  • 1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.

    1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.

  • 1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre Bouguer uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.

    1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre Bouguer uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.

  • 1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

    1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

  • 1843: Artist Eugène Delacroix publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related crimes against mathematical constants.

    1843: Artist Eugène Delacroix publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.

    1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.

  • 1889: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in Periphery.

    1889: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in Periphery.

  • 1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

    1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

  • 1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."

    1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."

  • 2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.

    2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.

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