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||1772: William Borlase born ... naturalist, geologist, and antiquary. He will oppress Methodist preachers in his capacity of magistrate: various Methodist preachers were seized on warrants issued by him and press-ganged to serve on ships abroad. Pic. | ||1772: William Borlase born ... naturalist, geologist, and antiquary. He will oppress Methodist preachers in his capacity of magistrate: various Methodist preachers were seized on warrants issued by him and press-ganged to serve on ships abroad. Pic. | ||
||1786: Michel Eugène Chevreul born ... chemist and academic ... worked with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with the discovery of margaric acid, creatine, and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt. He lived to 102 and was a pioneer in the field of gerontology. Pic (cool). | |||
||1796: John McKinly dies ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+McKinly | ||1796: John McKinly dies ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+McKinly | ||
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||1880: Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze born ... mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem. | ||1880: Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze born ... mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem. | ||
||1887: Friedrich Adolf Paneth born ... chemist. | ||1887: Friedrich Adolf Paneth born ... chemist. He was considered the greatest authority of his time on volatile hydrides and also made important contributions to the study of the stratosphere. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=friedrich+adolf+paneth | ||
||1895: Engelbert Zaschka born ... engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft. | ||1895: Engelbert Zaschka born ... engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft. | ||
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1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.
2006: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."