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||1838 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and businessman (b. 1768) | ||1838 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and businessman (b. 1768) | ||
||Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros (b. October 1, 1842) was a French poet and inventor. He was the first person to conceive a method for reproducing recorded sound, an invention he named the Paleophone. Cros was also interested in the fields of transmitting graphics by telegraph and making photographs in color. Pic. | |||
||1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing. | ||1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing. | ||
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1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1881: Mathematicians Nikola Tesla and Judge Havelock use new class of data transmission protocols to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.
1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).
2017: Physician, mathematician, and alleged time-traveller Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.