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||1851: First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
||1851: First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
||1854: Richard Tetley Glazebrook born ... physicist who was the first director of the UK National Physical Laboratory, from 1 Jan 1900 until his retirement in Sep 1919. At first, the laboratory's income depended on much routine, commercial testing, but Glazebrook championed fundamental, industrially oriented research. With support from individual donors, buildings were added for electrical work, metrology, and engineering. Data useful to the shipbuilding industry was collected in pioneering experimental work on models of ships made possible by a tank funded by Alfred Yarrow (1908). From 1909, laboratory began work benefitting the embryonic aeronautics industry, at the request of the secretary of state for war. The lab to contributed substantially to military needs during WW I Pic: http://www.npl.co.uk/about/history/directors/sir-richard-tetley-glazebrook


||1860: Joseph Locke dies ... engineer and politician.
||1860: Joseph Locke dies ... engineer and politician.

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  • 1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

    1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.

  • 1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

    1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.

  • 1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

    1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

  • 1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

    1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

  • 1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.

    1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.

  • 2016: Red Spiral 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Red Spiral 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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