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||1669: Rembrandt dies ... painter and illustrator. | ||1669: Rembrandt dies ... painter and illustrator. | ||
||1759: Louis François Antoine Arbogast born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1759: Louis François Antoine Arbogast born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Louis+François+Antoine+Arbogast | ||
||1841: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall born ... autodidact physicist and meteorologist. | ||1841: Thomas Corwin Mendenhall born ... autodidact physicist and meteorologist. Pic. | ||
||1858: Léon Serpollet born ... industrialist and pioneer of steam automobiles, under the Gardner-Serpollet brand. | ||1858: Léon Serpollet born ... industrialist and pioneer of steam automobiles, under the Gardner-Serpollet brand. Pic. | ||
||1858: Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin born ... American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). | ||1858: Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin born ... American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization"). Pic. | ||
||1864: Joseph Montferrand dies ... logger and strongman. | ||1864: Joseph Montferrand dies ... logger and strongman. | ||
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1903: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff born. He will invent the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
1947: Physicist and academic Max Planck dies. He made many contributions to theoretical physics, and earned fame as the originator of quantum theory.
1957: Clock Head 2 stops math criminals from interfering with the launch of Sputnik 1.
1957: Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
2006: Steganographic analysis of the Superimposed Fraunhofer stamp reveals "seven hundred to eight hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions related to color. These functions will quickly find application in the detection and prevention of crimes against light.
2018: Green Spiral 5 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.