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||1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching. | ||1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching. | ||
||Ralph Kronig (b. March 10, 1904) was a German American physicist. He is noted for the discovery of particle spin and for his theory of x-ray absorption spectroscopy. | |||
||Boris Vian (b. 10 March 1920) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. | ||Boris Vian (b. 10 March 1920) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. | ||
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1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps modifies Project Diana antenna to power new type of scrying engine intended to detect and counterattack crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Karl Jones born.
1962: Chrome Plover, the musical electroplating ensemble, begin world tour.
2006: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.