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||1869: Bertha Lamme Feicht born ... electrical engineer. She will be the first American woman to graduate in a main discipline of engineering other than civil engineering. Pic. | ||1869: Bertha Lamme Feicht born ... electrical engineer. She will be the first American woman to graduate in a main discipline of engineering other than civil engineering. Pic. | ||
||1882: Walther Meissner born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1882: Walther Meissner born ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||Johann Karl August Radon (b. 16 December 1887) was an Austrian mathematician. He will make a number of contributions, including the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional, and Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic. | ||Johann Karl August Radon (b. 16 December 1887) was an Austrian mathematician. He will make a number of contributions, including the Radon measure concept of measure as linear functional, and Radon's theorem that d + 2 points in d dimensions may always be partitioned into two subsets with intersecting convex hulls. Pic. | ||
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File:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen.jpg|link=Piet Hein (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician, author, and poet [[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]] born. He will propose the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses will become the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture. | File:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen.jpg|link=Piet Hein (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician, author, and poet [[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]] born. He will propose the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses will become the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture. | ||
||1907 | ||1907: The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. | ||
||Lambros Demetrios Callimahos | ||Lambros Demetrios Callimahos born ... US Army cryptologist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lambros+Demetrios+Callimahos | ||
||1917 | ||1917: Arthur C. Clarke born ... science fiction writer. | ||
||Gustav de Vries | ||Gustav de Vries dies ... mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. Pic. | ||
File:Point-contact transistor.png|link=Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]]. | File:Point-contact transistor.png|link=Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical [[Point-contact transistor (nonfiction)|point-contact transistor]]. | ||
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1653: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1887: Polymath and crime-fighter Francis Galton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1905: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein born. He will propose the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses will become the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.
1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor.
1968: Jekyll, the "fragrance for sociopaths", announces record sales.
2012: Signed first edition of Electrical Storm voted Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Red Spiral unexpectedly reveals "at least three hundred and fifty kilobytes" of encrypted data relating to the color red.