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||1878: Arthur Scherbius born ... electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine. | ||1878: Arthur Scherbius born ... electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine. | ||
||1888: François Coignet dies ... industrialist of the nineteenth century. He was a pioneer in the development of structural prefabricated and reinforced concrete. Coignet was the first to use iron-reinforced concrete as a technique for constructing building structures. | |||
||1895: Gerhard Domagk born ... pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1895: Gerhard Domagk born ... pathologist and bacteriologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.