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||Arvid Gerhard Damm (b. 27 May 1869) was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG. | ||Arvid Gerhard Damm (b. 27 May 1869) was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. His company, AB Cryptograph, was a predecessor of Crypto AG. | ||
||Alfred Swaine Taylor (11 December 1806 in Northfleet, Kent – 27 May 1880 in London) was an English toxicologist and medical writer, who has been called the "father of British forensic medicine" He was also an early experimenter in photography. Pic. | |||
||1896 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839) | ||1896 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839) | ||
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1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.
1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.