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||1809: Inventor Mary Kies born ... she wil. be the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. No DOD. Pic search | ||1809: Inventor Mary Kies born ... she wil. be the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. No DOD. Pic search. | ||
||1762: Nicolas Louis de Lacaille dies ... priest, astronomer, and academic. He named 15 out of the 88 constellations. Pic. | ||1762: Nicolas Louis de Lacaille dies ... priest, astronomer, and academic. He named 15 out of the 88 constellations. Pic. | ||
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||1767: Armand Jean François Séguin born ... chemist and physiologist who discovered a faster and cheaper process for tanning leather. As a result, he became immensely rich through the supply of leather to Napoleon's armies. Pic search iffy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Armand+Jean+François | ||1767: Armand Jean François Séguin born ... chemist and physiologist who discovered a faster and cheaper process for tanning leather. As a result, he became immensely rich through the supply of leather to Napoleon's armies. Pic search iffy: https://www.google.com/search?q=Armand+Jean+François | ||
File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] born. | File:Joseph_Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1768: Mathematician and physicist [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] born. Fourier will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations. | ||
||1772: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin dies ... geographer and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map. | ||1772: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin dies ... geographer and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map. | ||
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||1888: Arthur Batcheller born ... pioneer in early radio. Pic. | ||1888: Arthur Batcheller born ... pioneer in early radio. Pic. | ||
File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1884: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] born. Birkhoff will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation. | |||
File:George_David_Birkhoff.jpg|link=George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|1884: Mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] born. | |||
||1892: Annibale de Gasparis dies ... astronomer, discovered asteroids. Pic. | ||1892: Annibale de Gasparis dies ... astronomer, discovered asteroids. Pic. | ||
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||1896: Friedrich Waismann born ... mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=friedrich+waismann | ||1896: Friedrich Waismann born ... mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=friedrich+waismann | ||
File:Tesla with ray gun.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla|1901: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla]] predicts that mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] will be "one of the great [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crime fighters]] of his generation." | |||File:Tesla with ray gun.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla|1901: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla]] predicts that mathematician [[George David Birkhoff (nonfiction)|George David Birkhoff]] will be "one of the great [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crime fighters]] of his generation." | ||
||1911: Walter Lincoln Hawkins born ... scientist and inventor. Hawkins was a pioneer of polymer chemistry. For thirty-four years he worked at Bell Laboratories, where he was instrumental in designing a long-lasting plastic to sheath telephone cable. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=walter+lincoln+hawkins | ||1911: Walter Lincoln Hawkins born ... scientist and inventor. Hawkins was a pioneer of polymer chemistry. For thirty-four years he worked at Bell Laboratories, where he was instrumental in designing a long-lasting plastic to sheath telephone cable. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=walter+lincoln+hawkins | ||
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||1954: Pál Selényi dies. He was a pioneer of xerography. Pic. | ||1954: Pál Selényi dies. He was a pioneer of xerography. Pic. | ||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: Film rights to ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] sell for nearly a million dollars. | |||File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1963: Film rights to ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] sell for nearly a million dollars. | ||
File:Ranger spacecraft.jpg|link=Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|1965: NASA launches [[Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|Ranger 9]], the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. | File:Ranger spacecraft.jpg|link=Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|1965: NASA launches [[Ranger 9 (nonfiction)|Ranger 9]], the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. | ||
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1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. Fourier will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. Birkhoff will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.
1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. He will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
1928: Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Green Ring 2 reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color green.