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File: | ||1589: Christophe Plantin dies ... Renaissance humanist and book printer and publisher. Pic. | ||
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1646: Mathematician and philosopher [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] born. He will develop differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and design and build mechanical calculators. | |||
||1676: Anthony Collins born ... philosopher, author, and deist. His central passion is the autonomy of reason particularly with respect to religion; Collins was strongly motivated by an aversion to religious persecution, and issues around religious freedom run through all of his writing. Pic. | |||
||1724: Johann Homann dies ... geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas. Pic. | |||
||1742: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg born ... scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Pic. | |||
||1743: John Cuthbertson baptized ... instrument maker and inventor. Pic: generator. | |||
||1770: Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u. | |||
||1788: Jean-Victor Poncelet born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1790: William Roy dies ... military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain. Pic: map, plaque. | |||
File:Great Comet of 1819 by Kendall.jpg|link=Great Comet of 1819 (nonfiction)|1819: Johann Georg Tralles discovers the [[Great Comet of 1819 (nonfiction)|Great Comet of 1819]] (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago. | File:Great Comet of 1819 by Kendall.jpg|link=Great Comet of 1819 (nonfiction)|1819: Johann Georg Tralles discovers the [[Great Comet of 1819 (nonfiction)|Great Comet of 1819]] (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago. | ||
||1840: Robert Stawell Ball born ... astronomer who founded screw theory, the algebra and calculus of pairs of vectors, such as forces and moments and angular and linear velocity, that arise in the kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies. Pic. | |||
||1848: Emil Weyr born ... mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry. Pic. | |||
||1860: Charles Goodyear dies ... chemist and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1864: Alexander Crichton Mitchell born ... physicist with a special interest in geomagnetics who worked for many years in India as a professor and head of a meteorological observatory before returning to Scotland. He then worked with the Royal Navy to devise a system, known as an anti-submarine indicator loop, for detecting submarines by detecting currents induced in a loop of wire on the sea floor. Pic: http://indicatorloops.com/mitchell.htm | |||
||1872: Louis Blériot born ... pilot and engineer. | |||
||1872: William Duddell born ... physicist and engineer. | |||
||1874: The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale. | |||
||1881: Chemist Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville dies. Pic. | |||
File:Rotary dial telephone.jpg|link=Telephone (nonfiction)|1881: The world's first international [[Telephone (nonfiction)|telephone]] call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. | |||
||1884: Allan Pinkerton dies ... detective and spy. | |||
||1890: Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable. | |||
||1896: Hans Peter Luhn born ... researcher in the field of computer science, and, Library & Information Science for IBM, and creator of the Luhn algorithm, KWIC (Key Words In Context) indexing, and Selective dissemination of information ("SDI"). Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=hans+peter+luhn | |||
||1899: William Henry Flower dies ... surgeon, museum curator and comparative anatomist, who became a leading authority on mammals and especially on the primate brain. Pic. | |||
||1906: Jean Dieudonné born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
||1908: SOS is adopted as the international distress signal. | |||
||1917: Dorothy Maharam Stone born ... mathematician born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who made important contributions to measure theory and became the namesake of Maharam's theorem and Maharam algebra. Pic: https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/stone.htm | |||
||1929: Gerald Edelman born ... biologist and immunologist ... shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual is analogous to the way the components of the brain evolve in a lifetime. Pic. | |||
||1951: Dugald C. Jackson dies ... electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power". Pic. | |||
||1957: The International Geophysical Year begins. | |||
||1963: ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail. | |||
||1968: The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established. | |||
||1968: The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries. | |||
||1971: William Lawrence Bragg dies ... physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915. Pic. | |||
||1973: Laurens Hammond dies ... engineer and inventor. His inventions include, most famously, the Hammond organ, the Hammond clock, and the world's first polyphonic musical synthesizer, the Novachord. Pic. | |||
||1983: Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller dies ... architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. Pic. | |||
||1984: Moshé Feldenkrais dies ... engineer and the founder of the Feldenkrais Method, which is claimed to improve human functioning by increasing self-awareness through movement. Pic with skeleton. | |||
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|2001: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] dies. He did fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics. | File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|2001: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] dies. He did fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics. | ||
File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|2019: [[The Custodian]] says he is "not planning on retiring any time soon." | |||
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Latest revision as of 20:10, 6 February 2022
1646: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born. He will develop differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and design and build mechanical calculators.
1819: Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819 (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
1881: The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
2001: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov dies. He did fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.
2019: The Custodian says he is "not planning on retiring any time soon."