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||1756 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist and author (d. 1827) | ||1756 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist and author (d. 1827) | ||
|| | ||John Dollond FRS (d. 30 November 1761) was an English optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. Pic. | ||
||1765 – George Glas, Scottish merchant and explorer (b. 1725) | ||1765 – George Glas, Scottish merchant and explorer (b. 1725) | ||
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3340 BC: Earliest recorded solar eclipse.
1826: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
1985: Ridley Scott revisits his documentary film Alien, tells reporters he is "thinking about" an upgrade version.
