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||1907: Donald Lewes Hings born ... inventor. In 1937 he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie". | ||1907: Donald Lewes Hings born ... inventor. In 1937 he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie". | ||
|| | ||1913: William Henry Preece dies ... electrical engineer and inventor. He was a major figure in the development and introduction of wireless telegraphy and the telephone in Great Britain. Pic. | ||
||1935 | ||1928: Arnold Rothstein dies ... American mob boss. | ||
||1935: Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. | |||
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1944: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. | File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1944: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. | ||
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1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1872: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Clebsch publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use algebraic geometry and invariant theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Janet Beta.
2017: Signed first edition of Ursa Nano sells for undisclosed amount in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against light. The buyer is reported to be "a prominent mathematician living in New Minneapolis, Canada."