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|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. | ||
||1858: George Combe dies ... lawyer who turned to the promotion of phrenology and published several works on the subject. He followed Franz Josef Gall in Paris. Gall was a French physician who identified a number of areas on the surface of the head that he linked with specific localizations of cerebral functions and the underlying attributes of the human personality. Combe established the first infant school in Edinburgh and gave evening lectures. He studied the criminal classes and lunatic asylums wishing to reform them. Pic. | |||
||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. | ||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. | ||
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||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. | ||
||1888: Oliver B. Shallenberger, of Rochester, PA, received a patent for the electric meter. | |||
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: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]]. | |||
||1890: Bruno Tesch born ... chemist and businessman ... Zyklon B | ||1890: Bruno Tesch born ... chemist and businessman ... Zyklon B | ||
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||1893: France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration. | ||1893: France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration. | ||
||1894: The first wireless transmission of information using Morse code was demonstrated by Oliver Lodge during a meeting of the British Association at Oxford. A message was transmitted about 150 yards (50-m) from the old Clarendon Laboratory to the University Museum. However, as he later wrote in his Work of Hertz and Some of his Successors, the idea did not occur to Lodge at the time that this might be developed into long-distance telegraphy. “Stupidly enough, no attempt was made to apply any but the feeblest power, so as to test how far the disturbance could really be detected.” Nevertheless this demonstration predated the work of Guglielmo Marconi, who began his experiments in 1896. | |||
||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. | ||
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||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. | ||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. | ||
||1919: A U.S. aeromarine flying boat carries the first air mail delivery at sea. | |||
||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. | ||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. | ||
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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.
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.
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.
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."
2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.