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||1826: Giovanni Battista Donati born ... astronomer. He was a pioneer in the spectroscopic study of the stars, the Sun, and comets. Pic. | ||1826: Giovanni Battista Donati born ... astronomer. He was a pioneer in the spectroscopic study of the stars, the Sun, and comets. Pic. | ||
||1828: Alexander Ross Clarke born ... geodesist who made calculations of the size and shape of the Earth (the Clarke ellipsoid) were the first to approximate accepted modern values with respect to both polar flattening and equatorial radius. The figures from his second determination (1866) became a standard reference for U.S. geodesy for most of the twentieth century until satellites could improve accuracy. In 1880, Clarke coined the term "Geodesy" when he published his famous book by that title. Pic. | |||
||1849: Gyula Kőnig dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1849: Gyula Kőnig dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1849: John Caldecott dies ... East India Company commercial agent, meteorologist and astronomer who worked in the court of the Raja of Travancore at the Trivandrum Observatory. Pic: http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-caldecott-born-16-sept-1801-royal.html | ||1849: John Caldecott dies ... East India Company commercial agent, meteorologist and astronomer who worked in the court of the Raja of Travancore at the Trivandrum Observatory. Pic: http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-caldecott-born-16-sept-1801-royal.html | ||
||1869: Bertha Lamme Feicht born ... electrical engineer. | ||1869: Bertha Lamme Feicht born ... electrical engineer. She will be the first American woman to graduate in a main discipline of engineering other than civil engineering. Pic. | ||
||1882: Walther Meissner born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1882: Walther Meissner born ... physicist and engineer. | ||
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1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1887: Polymath and crime-fighter Francis Galton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1905: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein born. He will propose the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses will become the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.
1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
1968: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.
2012: Signed first edition of Electrical Storm voted Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Red Spiral unexpectedly reveals "at least three hundred and fifty kilobytes" of encrypted data relating to the color red.