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||1885: Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. It was to Zuisho Hotta for his formulation of an antifouling paint for ship hulls made of lacquer, powdered iron, red lead, persimmon tannin, and other ingredients. Although a patent law in Japan was first established much earlier, in 1871, it had been abandoned in the next year. On 18 Apr 1885, the Patent Monopoly Act was enacted marking the effective beginning of the Japan Patent Office. Antifouling paint was first patented in Britain by William Beale on 31 Aug 1625. The first U.S. patent for an antifouling paint was issued on 3 Nov 1863 to James G Tarr and Augustus Wonson. | ||1885: Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint. It was to Zuisho Hotta for his formulation of an antifouling paint for ship hulls made of lacquer, powdered iron, red lead, persimmon tannin, and other ingredients. Although a patent law in Japan was first established much earlier, in 1871, it had been abandoned in the next year. On 18 Apr 1885, the Patent Monopoly Act was enacted marking the effective beginning of the Japan Patent Office. Antifouling paint was first patented in Britain by William Beale on 31 Aug 1625. The first U.S. patent for an antifouling paint was issued on 3 Nov 1863 to James G Tarr and Augustus Wonson. | ||
||1886: Arthur Jeffrey Dempster | ||1886: Arthur Jeffrey Dempster born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1886: Edmond Nicolas Laguerre dies ... mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). Laguerre's method is a root-finding algorithm tailored to polynomials. | ||1886: Edmond Nicolas Laguerre dies ... mathematician, a member of the Académie française (1885). His main works were in the areas of geometry and complex analysis. He also investigated orthogonal polynomials (see Laguerre polynomials). Laguerre's method is a root-finding algorithm tailored to polynomials. Pic. | ||
||1887: Eric Magnus Campbell Tigerstedt born ... inventor ... "Thomas Edison of Finland". He was a pioneer of sound-on-film technology and made significant improvements to the amplification capacity of the vacuum valve. Pic. | ||1887: Eric Magnus Campbell Tigerstedt born ... inventor ... "Thomas Edison of Finland". He was a pioneer of sound-on-film technology and made significant improvements to the amplification capacity of the vacuum valve. Pic. | ||
||1888: Julio Rey Pastor born ... mathematician and historian of science. | ||1888: Julio Rey Pastor born ... mathematician and historian of science. Pic. | ||
||1888: An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England. | ||1888: An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England. | ||
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1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
1738: Mathematician, geophysicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre Bouguer uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.
1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.
1843: Artist Eugène Delacroix publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related crimes against mathematical constants.
1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1889: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in Periphery.
1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.
1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."
2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Tangle 4 reveals "five, possibly six" previously unknown shades of green.