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||1597: Willem Barentsz dies ... cartographer and explorer. No DOB. Pic. | ||1597: Willem Barentsz dies ... cartographer and explorer. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||1776: Benjamin Huntsman dies ... inventor and businessman ... inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel. Pic search | File:Inigo Jones.jpg|link=Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|1649: Architect [[Inigo Jones (nonfiction)|Inigo Jones]] uses [[Vitruvius (nonfiction)|Vitruvian]] rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1776: Benjamin Huntsman dies ... inventor and businessman ... inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel. Pic search. | |||
||1782: The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. | ||1782: The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States. | ||
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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 | ||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 characterizing unsteady flow. Pic search. | ||
||1912: Markus | ||1912: Markus 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. Pic. | ||
||1917: Helena Rasiowa born ... mathematician and academic. Rasiowa worked in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic. Pic. | ||1917: Helena Rasiowa born ... mathematician and academic. Rasiowa worked in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic. Pic. | ||
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1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1875: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer dies. He designed and built several hand-powered 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.
1945: The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip.
2010: A self-sustaining colony of transdimensional corporations is accidentally released from an unlicensed Extract of Radium factory. APTO investigators will later determine that the factory was manufacturing illegal transdimensional drugs, including clandestiphrine.
2017: Chromatographic analysis of Ursa Nano reveals "as least two, possibly as many as seven" previously unknown shades of blue.