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||1801: John Caldecott born ... East India Company commercial agent, meteorologist and astronomer who worked in the court of the Raja of Travancore at the Trivandrum Observatory. Pic: http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-caldecott-born-16-sept-1801-royal.html | ||1801: John Caldecott born ... East India Company commercial agent, meteorologist and astronomer who worked in the court of the Raja of Travancore at the Trivandrum Observatory. Pic: http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-caldecott-born-16-sept-1801-royal.html | ||
||1803: Nicolas Baudin dies ... explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer. | ||1803: Nicolas Baudin dies ... explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer. Pic. | ||
File:Orcagna scrying engine.jpg|link=Orcagna scrying engine|1838: The [[Orcagna scrying engine]], under contract to the [[House of Malevecchio]], downloads [[Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (nonfiction)|Abū Sahl al-Qūhī]]'s [[Perfect Compass]] protocol. [[House of Malevecchio|Malevecchio]] will attempt to monopolize the protocol, but five years later the French will announce ''Compas Parfait''; within fifty years, all of Christendom will have similar systems. | File:Orcagna scrying engine.jpg|link=Orcagna scrying engine|1838: The [[Orcagna scrying engine]], under contract to the [[House of Malevecchio]], downloads [[Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (nonfiction)|Abū Sahl al-Qūhī]]'s [[Perfect Compass]] protocol. [[House of Malevecchio|Malevecchio]] will attempt to monopolize the protocol, but five years later the French will announce ''Compas Parfait''; within fifty years, all of Christendom will have similar systems. | ||
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||1846: Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. born ... astronomer. He is best remembered for his research on what is today known as the Chandler wobble. His research on this spanned nearly three decades. Pic. | ||1846: Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. born ... astronomer. He is best remembered for his research on what is today known as the Chandler wobble. His research on this spanned nearly three decades. Pic. | ||
||1857: Harold Pitney Brown born ... electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country (during the "War of Currents"). | ||1857: Harold Pitney Brown born ... electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country (during the "War of Currents"). No DOD. Pic. | ||
||1869: Thomas Graham dies ... chemist known for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases. He is regarded as one of the founders of colloid chemistry. Pic. | ||1869: Thomas Graham dies ... chemist known for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases. He is regarded as one of the founders of colloid chemistry. Pic. | ||
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||1920: The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400. | ||1920: The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400. | ||
||1921: Ursula Franklin born ... metallurgist. | ||1921: Ursula Franklin born ... metallurgist. Pic. | ||
||1925: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||1925: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||
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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1838: The Orcagna scrying engine, under contract to the House of Malevecchio, downloads Abū Sahl al-Qūhī's Perfect Compass protocol. Malevecchio will attempt to monopolize the protocol, but five years later the French will announce Compas Parfait; within fifty years, all of Christendom will have similar systems.
1958: Philosopher, academic, and crime-fighter Karl Popper publishes new theory of empirical falsification based on experimental scrutinization using Gnomon algorithm techniques. Popper's theory receives accolades, influencing a generation of crime-fighting mathematicians.
1964: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.
2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter Vladimir Arnold uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Spinning Thistle voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.