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||1839: James Blyth born ... electrical engineer and academic at Anderson's College, now the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. He was a pioneer in the field of electricity generation through wind power and his wind turbine, which was used to light his holiday home in Marykirk, was the world's first-known structure by which electricity was generated from wind power. Pic: http://scienceonstreets.phys.strath.ac.uk/new/James_Blyth.html | ||1839: James Blyth born ... electrical engineer and academic at Anderson's College, now the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. He was a pioneer in the field of electricity generation through wind power and his wind turbine, which was used to light his holiday home in Marykirk, was the world's first-known structure by which electricity was generated from wind power. Pic: http://scienceonstreets.phys.strath.ac.uk/new/James_Blyth.html | ||
||1842: Édouard Lucas born . | File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1842: Mathematician [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|Édouard Lucas]] born. He will study the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers will be named after him. | ||
||1870: Heinrich Gustav Magnus dies ... chemist and physicist. | ||1870: Heinrich Gustav Magnus dies ... chemist and physicist. | ||
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1807: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande dies. As a lecturer and writer Lalande helped popularize astronomy. His planetary tables were the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
1826: Electrical engineer Zénobe Gramme born. He will invent the first usefully powerful electric motor.
1842: Mathematician Édouard Lucas born. He will study the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers will be named after him.
1901: Charles Hermite publishes paper on number theory as deterrent to crimes against mathematical constants.
1923: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn dies. He invented the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
1976: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist dies. He did early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which led to the development of information theory.
1977: Dave the Gamer announces "buy one, get one free" sale on all lucky dice in the store.