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||1886: Jerome C. Hunsaker born ... aeronautical engineer who made major innovations in the design of aircraft and lighter-than-air ships, seaplanes, and carrier-based aircraft. His career had spanned the entire existence of the aerospace industry, from the very beginnings of aeronautics to exploration of the solar system. He received his master's degree in naval architecture from M.I.T. in 1912. At about the same time seeing a flight by Bleriot around Boston harbour attracted him to the fledgling field of aeronautics. By 1916, he became MIT's first Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering. He designed the NC (Navy Curtiss) flying boat with the capability of crossing the Atlantic. It was the largest aircraft in the world at the time, with four engines and a crew of six. Pic. | ||1886: Jerome C. Hunsaker born ... aeronautical engineer who made major innovations in the design of aircraft and lighter-than-air ships, seaplanes, and carrier-based aircraft. His career had spanned the entire existence of the aerospace industry, from the very beginnings of aeronautics to exploration of the solar system. He received his master's degree in naval architecture from M.I.T. in 1912. At about the same time seeing a flight by Bleriot around Boston harbour attracted him to the fledgling field of aeronautics. By 1916, he became MIT's first Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering. He designed the NC (Navy Curtiss) flying boat with the capability of crossing the Atlantic. It was the largest aircraft in the world at the time, with four engines and a crew of six. Pic. | ||
||1892: Elizebeth Smith Friedman born ... expert cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst". | ||1892: Elizebeth Smith Friedman born ... expert cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst". Pic. | ||
||1895: Johann Friedrich Miescher dies ... biochemist and biologist who studied cell metabolism and discovered nucleic acids. In 1869, while working under Ernst Hoppe-Seyler at the University of Tübingen, Miescher investigated a substance containing both phosphorus and nitrogen in the nuclei of white blood cells found in pus. The substance, first named nuclein because it seemed to come from cell nuclei, became known as nucleic acid after 1874, when Miescher separated it into a protein and an acid molecule. It is now known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Pic. | ||1895: Johann Friedrich Miescher dies ... biochemist and biologist who studied cell metabolism and discovered nucleic acids. In 1869, while working under Ernst Hoppe-Seyler at the University of Tübingen, Miescher investigated a substance containing both phosphorus and nitrogen in the nuclei of white blood cells found in pus. The substance, first named nuclein because it seemed to come from cell nuclei, became known as nucleic acid after 1874, when Miescher separated it into a protein and an acid molecule. It is now known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Pic. | ||
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||1910: William James dies ... psychologist and philosopher who was a leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism and of the psychological movement of functionalism. Although he first began a career as a zoologist, and traveled to Brazil on expedition with Louis Agassiz, James moved to the medical school, and then his life’s work investigating the mind. He served terms as President of the American Psychological Association and of the International Society for Psychical Research. After retiring from active teaching, he became the foremost American advocate for “pragmatism” in philosophical thought by which “that is true which works.” Pic. | ||1910: William James dies ... psychologist and philosopher who was a leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism and of the psychological movement of functionalism. Although he first began a career as a zoologist, and traveled to Brazil on expedition with Louis Agassiz, James moved to the medical school, and then his life’s work investigating the mind. He served terms as President of the American Psychological Association and of the International Society for Psychical Research. After retiring from active teaching, he became the foremost American advocate for “pragmatism” in philosophical thought by which “that is true which works.” Pic. | ||
||1918: Katherine Johnson born ... physicist and mathematician. ( | ||1918: Katherine Johnson born ... physicist and mathematician. (Alive c. Feb. 2019.) Pic. | ||
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1919: Physicist, chemist, and criminal investigator [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] discovers a [[Gnomon algorithm function]] which detects and prevents [[Extract of Radium]] outbreaks. | File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1919: Physicist, chemist, and criminal investigator [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] discovers a [[Gnomon algorithm function]] which detects and prevents [[Extract of Radium]] outbreaks. | ||
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File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1930: [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] is granted a ptent (U.S. 1,773,980) for his television system . This is his first patent, with a description of his image dissector tube, and his most important contribution to the development of television. | File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1930: [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] is granted a ptent (U.S. 1,773,980) for his television system . This is his first patent, with a description of his image dissector tube, and his most important contribution to the development of television. | ||
||1935: Karen Spärck Jones born ... computer scientist and academic. | ||1935: Karen Spärck Jones born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1961: Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson dies ... mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=howard+p.+robertson | ||1961: Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson dies ... mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=howard+p.+robertson | ||
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1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
1728: Polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map projections.
1735: Leonhard Euler presents his solution to the Königsberg bridge problem – whether it was possible to find a route crossing each of the seven bridges of the city of Königsberg once and only once – in a lecture to his colleagues at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
1896: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1919: Physicist, chemist, and criminal investigator Marie Curie discovers a Gnomon algorithm function which detects and prevents Extract of Radium outbreaks.
1930: Philo Farnsworth is granted a ptent (U.S. 1,773,980) for his television system . This is his first patent, with a description of his image dissector tube, and his most important contribution to the development of television.
1974: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.
2018: Blue Foliage 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.