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||1851: Karl Freiherr von Drais born ... forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. Dandy horse. Pic.
||1851: Karl Freiherr von Drais born ... forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. Dandy horse. Pic.


File:Margaret Eliza Maltby circa 1908.jpg|link=Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|1860: Physicist [[Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|Margaret Eliza Maltby]] born.  She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions.  Pic.
File:Margaret Eliza Maltby circa 1908.jpg|link=Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|1860: Physicist [[Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|Margaret Eliza Maltby]] born.  She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions.   


||1864: Henry Schoolcraft dies ... geographer, geologist, and ethnologist ... Native Americans. Pic.
||1864: Henry Schoolcraft dies ... geographer, geologist, and ethnologist ... Native Americans. Pic.

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  • 1262: First known use of Yui's triangle to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1262: First known use of Yui's triangle to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

    1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

  • 1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.

    1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.

  • 1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.

    1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.

  • 1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

    1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

  • 1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

    1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

  • 1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.

    1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.

  • 1860: Physicist Margaret Eliza Maltby born. She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions.

    1860: Physicist Margaret Eliza Maltby born. She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions.

  • 1959: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, demonstrates new controller units.

    1959: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, demonstrates new controller units.

  • 1967: Project Gasbuggy underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.

    1967: Project Gasbuggy underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.

  • 1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace.

    1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace.

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Shell stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.

    2017: Signed first edition of Shell stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.

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