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||1828: Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary. | ||1828: Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary. | ||
||1882: Moritz Schlick born ... physicist and philosopher. | ||1882: Moritz Schlick born ... physicist and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1882: Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard dies ... engineer. In 1852 he invented the steam injector and the powered Giffard dirigible airship. Pic. | ||1882: Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard dies ... engineer. In 1852 he invented the steam injector and the powered Giffard dirigible airship. Pic. | ||
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||1981: STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight. | ||1981: STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight. | ||
||1994: Salimuzzaman Siddiqui dies ... chemist and scholar. Siddiqui isolated unique chemical compounds from the Neem (Azadirachta indica), Rauwolfia, and various other Asian flora. Pic. | |||
||2000: Phil Katz dies ... computer programmer, co-created the zip file format. Pic. | ||2000: Phil Katz dies ... computer programmer, co-created the zip file format. Pic. | ||
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1126: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) born. He will write on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, politics, music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
1477: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci accepts commission to build a mechanical soldier powered by time crystals.
1629: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens born. He will be a leading scientist of his time.
1659: Proposals to flood the Sistine chapel "are equally useless to Science and Art," writes Christiaan Huygens in a private letter to Pope Alexander VII.
1890: Physicist and APTO field engineer Johannes Bosscha Jr. publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1894: The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1898: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1899: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan born. He will discover the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.
1934: Author and alleged time-traveller John Brunner uses Lee and Turner scrying engine to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1935: Mathematician Emmy Noether dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.
2018: Golden Spiral is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.