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|File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1634:  Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] develops new type of precision astronomical instruments incorporating [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], which he uses to preview and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Luigi Galvani.jpg|link=Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|1737: Physician and physicist [[Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|Luigi Galvani]] born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
File:Luigi Galvani.jpg|link=Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|1737: Physician and physicist [[Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|Luigi Galvani]] born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.


||1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
||1839: John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.


||John Henry Poynting (b. 9 September 1852) was an English physicist. He was the developer and eponym of the Poynting vector, which describes the direction and magnitude of electromagnetic energy flow and is used in the Poynting theorem, a statement about energy conservation for electric and magnetic fields. Pic.
||1852: John Henry Poynting born ... physicist. He was the developer and eponym of the Poynting vector, which describes the direction and magnitude of electromagnetic energy flow and is used in the Poynting theorem, a statement about energy conservation for electric and magnetic fields. Pic.


||Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō (b. September 9, 1854) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War.
||1854: Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō ...Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War.


||Frank Morley (b. 1860) was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry.
||1860: Frank Morley born ... mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry.


||Victor Alexandre Puiseux (d. 9 September 1883) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem.  
||1883: Victor Alexandre Puiseux dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem.  


||1892 – Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
||1892: Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.


File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."


||1920 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and physicist (d. 1993)
||1920: Feng Kang born ... mathematician and physicist.


||1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
||1922: Hans Georg Dehmelt born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


|File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1934: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel device]] hijacked, used to commit new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1941: Dennis Ritchie born ... computer scientist, created the C programming language.
 
||1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (d. 2011)
 
|File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1942: "Conspiracy theories of about [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have yet to prove their case."


File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|1947: First case of a [[Software defect (nonfiction)|computer bug]] being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|1947: First case of a [[Software defect (nonfiction)|computer bug]] being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
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File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1975: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] launched. Following a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking orbiter will begin returning global images of Mars.  
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1975: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] launched. Following a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking orbiter will begin returning global images of Mars.  


|File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1984: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on combinatorics and probability theory, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1985: Paul Flory dies ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
||2002: Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer dies ... electronics engineer and consultant who is credited as being the first person to conceptualise and build a prototype of the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, in the late-1940s and early 1950s.  


||Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer, MBE (1945), C.Eng., IEE Premium Award, FIEEE, MIEE, USA Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm (25 February 1909 – 9 September 2002) was an English electronics engineer and consultant who is credited as being the first person to conceptualise and build a prototype of the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, in the late-1940s and early 1950s.  
||2003: Edward Teller dies ... physicist and academic.


||2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1908)
||2004: The Ryanggang explosion ... North Korea in the northern province of Ryanggang. The nature and cause of the suspected explosion is the subject of speculation. No neighboring nations have claimed any detection of radioactive isotopes characteristic of a nuclear explosion. Pic.


File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|2017: [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.
File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|2017: [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.


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Revision as of 10:25, 4 September 2018

  • 1737: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.

    1737: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.

  • 1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."

    1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."

  • 1947: First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

    1947: First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

  • 1975: Viking program: Viking 2 launched. Following a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking orbiter will begin returning global images of Mars.

    1975: Viking program: Viking 2 launched. Following a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking orbiter will begin returning global images of Mars.

  • 2017: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

    2017: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.

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