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||1793: Michel Chasles born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1793: Michel Chasles born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1819: Daniel Rutherford dies ... chemist and physician. | ||1819: Daniel Rutherford dies ... chemist and physician. Pic. | ||
||1839: William Murdock dies ... inventor who was the first to make extensive use of coal gas for illumination and a pioneer in the development of steam power. He joined James Watt and Matthew Boulton and in 1784 he was sent to supervise the installation of Boulton & Watt steam engines working pumping equipment in Cornish tin mines. While there, he tested his ideas to use the gas given off by burning coal. From an iron retort in the backyard of his home, he ran a metal tube into his living room. On 29 Jul 1792, Murdock achieved a gas flame inside the room. In 1802, Boulton installed two gas lamps outside his Soho factory. Next year, the foundry was entirely illuminated by gas. Shortly, Boulton & Watt began to sell lighting and heating equipment with Murdock as a partner in the business. Pic. | ||1839: William Murdock dies ... inventor who was the first to make extensive use of coal gas for illumination and a pioneer in the development of steam power. He joined James Watt and Matthew Boulton and in 1784 he was sent to supervise the installation of Boulton & Watt steam engines working pumping equipment in Cornish tin mines. While there, he tested his ideas to use the gas given off by burning coal. From an iron retort in the backyard of his home, he ran a metal tube into his living room. On 29 Jul 1792, Murdock achieved a gas flame inside the room. In 1802, Boulton installed two gas lamps outside his Soho factory. Next year, the foundry was entirely illuminated by gas. Shortly, Boulton & Watt began to sell lighting and heating equipment with Murdock as a partner in the business. Pic. | ||
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||1874: August Krogh born ... zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1874: August Krogh born ... zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1885: Frederick Handley Page born ... industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber. | ||1885: Frederick Handley Page born ... industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber. Pic (charming). | ||
||1888: Harald Sverdrup born ... meteorologist and oceanographer known for his studies of the physics, chemistry, and biology of the oceans. He explained the equatorial countercurrents and helped develop the method of predicting surf and breakers. As scientific director of Roald Amundsen's polar expedition on Maud (1918-1925), Sverdrup worked extensively on meteorology, magnetics, atmospheric electricity, physical oceanography, and tidal dynamics on the Siberian shelf, and even on the anthropology of Chukchi natives. In 1953, Sverdrup quantified the concept of "critical depth", explaining the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in newly stratified water columns. Pic. | ||1888: Harald Sverdrup born ... meteorologist and oceanographer known for his studies of the physics, chemistry, and biology of the oceans. He explained the equatorial countercurrents and helped develop the method of predicting surf and breakers. As scientific director of Roald Amundsen's polar expedition on Maud (1918-1925), Sverdrup worked extensively on meteorology, magnetics, atmospheric electricity, physical oceanography, and tidal dynamics on the Siberian shelf, and even on the anthropology of Chukchi natives. In 1953, Sverdrup quantified the concept of "critical depth", explaining the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in newly stratified water columns. Pic. | ||
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1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher Albertus Magnus dies. He was known during his lifetime as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and, late in his life, the term magnus was appended to his name.
1797: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes Fighting defeats gang of math criminals in close-quarters combat.
1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He discovered laws of planetary motion.
1894: Donnybrook breaks out, Extract of Radium abuse suspected.
1981: Physicist and chemist Walter Heinrich Heitler dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
2015: Extract of Radium installs automated vending machines at all San Francisco Muni stations.
2016: San Francisco Muni hack begins, data held hostage for ransom.
2016: Artificial intelligence Killer Poke denies involvement in San Francisco Muni hack.
2017: Signed first edition of Pinwheel Diagram stolen from City Hall in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.