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||1768: Samuel Slater born ... industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson) and the "Father of the American Factory System." In the UK, he was called "Slater the Traitor" because he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use. Pic. | ||1768: Samuel Slater born ... industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson) and the "Father of the American Factory System." In the UK, he was called "Slater the Traitor" because he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use. Pic. | ||
||1781: George Stephenson born ... engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. | ||1781: George Stephenson born ... engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Pic. | ||
||1786: William George Horner born ... mathematician; he was a schoolmaster, headmaster and schoolkeeper, proficient in classics as well as mathematics, who wrote extensively on functional equations, number theory and approximation theory, but also on optics. He invented the Daedaleum in 1834, re-discovering the Zoetrope. Pic: http://uchihahyral.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-george-horner-1786-1837.html | ||1786: William George Horner born ... mathematician; he was a schoolmaster, headmaster and schoolkeeper, proficient in classics as well as mathematics, who wrote extensively on functional equations, number theory and approximation theory, but also on optics. He invented the Daedaleum in 1834, re-discovering the Zoetrope. Pic: http://uchihahyral.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-george-horner-1786-1837.html | ||
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||1903: Alan Blumlein born ... engineer ... important. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=alan+blumlein | ||1903: Alan Blumlein born ... engineer ... important. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=alan+blumlein | ||
||1906: Robert Klark Graham born ... eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice. | ||1906: Robert Klark Graham born ... eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+klark+graham | ||
||1909: Erhard Fernholz born ... chemist. He investigated sterols and bile acids; his work on stigma-sterol contributed to the first partial synthesis of progesterone. Fernholz also did pioneering research on the anti-hemorrhagic properties of Vitamin K. Pic. | ||1909: Erhard Fernholz born ... chemist. He investigated sterols and bile acids; his work on stigma-sterol contributed to the first partial synthesis of progesterone. Fernholz also did pioneering research on the anti-hemorrhagic properties of Vitamin K. Pic. | ||
||1912: Gerald James Whitrow born ... mathematician, cosmologist, and historian. His main contributions were in the fields of cosmology and astrophysics, but his interests included the history and philosophy of science, with a particular focus on the concept of time. Pic | ||1912: Gerald James Whitrow born ... mathematician, cosmologist, and historian. His main contributions were in the fields of cosmology and astrophysics, but his interests included the history and philosophy of science, with a particular focus on the concept of time. Pic | ||
||1922: Fernand Seguin born ... biochemist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fernand+Seguin | ||1922: Fernand Seguin born ... biochemist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fernand+Seguin | ||
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||1942: John Norman Mather born ... mathematician and academic ... worked on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics. Pic. | ||1942: John Norman Mather born ... mathematician and academic ... worked on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics. Pic. | ||
||1942: American diplomat Bonner Fellers switches to a newly adopted U.S. code system, depriving the Axis of further information from the broken Black code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_(code) | |||
||1944: World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks. | ||1944: World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks. | ||
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||2004: Eugene Franklin Mallove dies ... scientist, science writer, editor, and publisher of Infinite Energy magazine, and founder of the non-profit organization New Energy Foundation. He was a proponent of cold fusion, and a supporter of its research and related exploratory alternative energy topics, several of which are sometimes characterised as "fringe science". | ||2004: Eugene Franklin Mallove dies ... scientist, science writer, editor, and publisher of Infinite Energy magazine, and founder of the non-profit organization New Energy Foundation. He was a proponent of cold fusion, and a supporter of its research and related exploratory alternative energy topics, several of which are sometimes characterised as "fringe science". | ||
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1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1950: Novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is photographed Bureau of Prisons authorities. Trumbo will serve eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Wisconsin for refusing to testify before House Un-American Activities Committee.
1953: Singer-physicist J. R. Oppenheimer's song "Destroyer of Worlds" is condemned by the House Un-American Activities Committee as "pernicious satire which knowingly demeans the national security state."
1954: "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" —Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army. See McCarthyism.