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||Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner (d. June 11, 1969) was a Polish engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology. Pic. | ||Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner (d. June 11, 1969) was a Polish engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology. Pic. | ||
||John Henry Manley (d. June 11, 1990) was an American physicist who worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley before becoming a group leader during the Manhattan Project. Pic. | |||
||1998 – Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition. | ||1998 – Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition. | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.