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||1694: François Quesnay born ... economist and physician. Pic. | ||1694: François Quesnay born ... economist and physician. Pic. | ||
||1704: Benjamin Huntsman born ... inventor and businessman. | ||1704: Benjamin Huntsman born ... inventor and businessman ... inventor and manufacturer of cast or crucible steel. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=benjamin+huntsman | ||
||1739: Johann Beckmann born ... scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject. Pic. | ||1739: Johann Beckmann born ... scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject. Pic. | ||
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||1896: Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run. | ||1896: Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run. | ||
||1910: Christopher Cockerell born ... engineer, invented the hovercraft. | ||1910: Christopher Cockerell born ... engineer, invented the hovercraft. Pic. | ||
||1916: Robert F. Furchgott born ... biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1916: Robert F. Furchgott born ... biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler Nezahualcoyotl dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.
1769: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil's hopes are dashed when, after years of struggle, overcast conditions prevent him from making a critical observation.
1782: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain publishes analysis of Fermat's Last Theorem will provides a foundation for mathematicians fighting crimes against mathematical constants for hundreds of years after.
1783: The Montgolfier brothers give first public demonstration of balloon flight.
1943: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses punched card computation to forecast the position of German submarine U-505 a year in advance, giving the U.S. Navy a strategic advantage in the Second World War.
1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1992: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) dies. He contributed to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Red Spiral 3 accidentally releases the notorious criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.