Template:Selected anniversaries/April 22: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 6: | Line 6: | ||
||1778 – James Hargreaves, British inventor spinning jenny (b. 1720). No pic. | ||1778 – James Hargreaves, British inventor spinning jenny (b. 1720). No pic. | ||
File:The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.jpg|link=The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|1779: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' unexpectedly reveals previously unknown templates for [[Organic golem|organic golems]]. | |||
File:Richard_Trevithick.jpg|link=Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|1833: Engineer and explorer [[Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|Richard Trevithick]] dies. He was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. | File:Richard_Trevithick.jpg|link=Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|1833: Engineer and explorer [[Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|Richard Trevithick]] dies. He was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive. |
Revision as of 16:26, 21 April 2018
1592: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard born. He will design and build calculating machines, and invent techniques for producing improved maps.
1779: Steganographic analysis of The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters unexpectedly reveals previously unknown templates for organic golems.
1833: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick dies. He was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.
1904: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.
2006: Computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram dies. She developed the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.
2018: Signed first edition of Lend a Hand stolen from the Louvre by the Forbidden Ratio in a daring daytime robbery.