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File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1875: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] dies. He designed and invented [[Submarine (nonfiction)|submarines]]. | File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1875: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] dies. He designed and invented [[Submarine (nonfiction)|submarines]]. | ||
||1875: Reginald Punnett born ... geneticist, statistician, and academic. | ||1875: Reginald Punnett born ... geneticist, statistician, and academic. He is best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. Pic. | ||
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1876: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" [[Wallace War-Heels]] says that he has "offered no man violence", but admits that he has "responded to violence with greater violence, many times." | File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1876: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" [[Wallace War-Heels]] says that he has "offered no man violence", but admits that he has "responded to violence with greater violence, many times." | ||
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||1903: Benjamin deForest "Pat" Bayly born ... electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Toronto. During World War II he invented a cypher machine called the Rockex and handled communications at the secret intelligence base Camp X. | ||1903: Benjamin deForest "Pat" Bayly born ... electrical engineer and a professor at the University of Toronto. During World War II he invented a cypher machine called the Rockex and handled communications at the secret intelligence base Camp X. | ||
||1907: John Ronald Womersley born ... mathematician and computer scientist who made important contributions to computer development, and hemodynamics. Nowadays he is principally remembered for his contribution to blood flow, fluid dynamics and the eponymous Womersley number, a dimensionless parameter characterising unsteady flow. | ||1907: John Ronald Womersley born ... mathematician and computer scientist who made important contributions to computer development, and hemodynamics. Nowadays he is principally remembered for his contribution to blood flow, fluid dynamics and the eponymous Womersley number, a dimensionless parameter characterising unsteady flow. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Ronald+Womersley | ||
||1912: Markus Eduard Fierz born ... physicist, particularly remembered for his formulation of spin-statistics theorem, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1979 and the Albert Einstein Medal in 1989 for all his work. | ||1912: Markus Eduard Fierz born ... physicist, particularly remembered for his formulation of spin-statistics theorem, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1979 and the Albert Einstein Medal in 1989 for all his work. | ||
Revision as of 10:22, 7 March 2019
1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1875: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer dies. He designed and invented submarines.
1876: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" Wallace War-Heels says that he has "offered no man violence", but admits that he has "responded to violence with greater violence, many times."
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2010: Unlicensed Extract of Radium factory accidentally releases self-sustaining colony of transdimensional corporations.
2017: Chromatographic analysis of Ursa Nano reveals a previously unknown shade of blue, "probably as a result of latest cryptographic numina."