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File:Gutenberg.jpg|link=Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher [[Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|Johannes Gutenberg]] dies.
File:Gutenberg.jpg|link=Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher [[Johannes Gutenberg (nonfiction)|Johannes Gutenberg]] dies.
File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] develops new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on tangents and secants.


||1690: The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas. See: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/feb3/paper-money-introduced-us/
||1690: The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas. See: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/feb3/paper-money-introduced-us/
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File:Jean Baptiste Biot.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Biot]] dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.
File:Jean Baptiste Biot.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Biot]] dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.
File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1863:  Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained.


||1884: Gotthilf Hagen dies ... civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory. Pic.
||1884: Gotthilf Hagen dies ... civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory. Pic.
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File:Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass.jpg|link=Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|1961: The United States Air Forces begins [[Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|Operation Looking Glass]], and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
File:Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass.jpg|link=Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|1961: The United States Air Forces begins [[Operation Looking Glass (nonfiction)|Operation Looking Glass]], and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1962: Physicist, mathematician, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which uses Bose–Einstein condensates to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||1968: Carl Krauch dies ... chemist, industrialist and Nazi war criminal. He was an executive at BASF (later IG Farben); during World War II, he was chairman of the supervisory board. He was a key implementer of the Reich’s Four-Year Plan to achieve national economic self-sufficiency and promote industrial production. He was Plenipotentiary of Special Issues in Chemical Production. Pic.
||1968: Carl Krauch dies ... chemist, industrialist and Nazi war criminal. He was an executive at BASF (later IG Farben); during World War II, he was chairman of the supervisory board. He was a key implementer of the Reich’s Four-Year Plan to achieve national economic self-sufficiency and promote industrial production. He was Plenipotentiary of Special Issues in Chemical Production. Pic.
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||2007: Thomas Christian Sneum dies ... Danish pilot. He collected information about the German Freya radar that had been installed on his home island in Denmark. On the night of 21–22 June 1941 he and pilot Kjeld Pedersen made a spectacular escape from Denmark to Great Britain in a D.H. Hornet Moth. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Thomas-Sneum
||2007: Thomas Christian Sneum dies ... Danish pilot. He collected information about the German Freya radar that had been installed on his home island in Denmark. On the night of 21–22 June 1941 he and pilot Kjeld Pedersen made a spectacular escape from Denmark to Great Britain in a D.H. Hornet Moth. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Thomas-Sneum


File:Crimson Blossom.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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  • 1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher Johannes Gutenberg dies.

    1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher Johannes Gutenberg dies.

  • 1811: Scientist and author Johann Beckmann dies. He coined the word technology, meaning the science of trades, and was the first to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.

    1811: Scientist and author Johann Beckmann dies. He coined the word technology, meaning the science of trades, and was the first to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject.

  • 1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.

    1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.

  • 1893: Mathematician Gaston Julia born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work will later prove foundational to chaos theory.

    1893: Mathematician Gaston Julia born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work will later prove foundational to chaos theory.

  • 1904: Physicist and crime-fighter Hendrik Lorentz uses the Zeeman effect to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1904: Physicist and crime-fighter Hendrik Lorentz uses the Zeeman effect to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1925: Self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist Oliver Heaviside dies. Heaviside made major breakthroughs in the applied mathematics of electrical engineering; although he was at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.

    1925: Self-taught electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist Oliver Heaviside dies. Heaviside made major breakthroughs in the applied mathematics of electrical engineering; although he was at odds with the scientific establishment for most of his life, Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science for years to come.

  • 1927: Mathematician and checkers player Marion Tinsley born. Tinsley will be "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."

    1927: Mathematician and checkers player Marion Tinsley born. Tinsley will be "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music."

  • 1929: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

    1929: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

  • 1959: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."

    1959: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."

  • 1961: The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.

    1961: The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.

  • 1975: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge dies. He made major contributions to X-ray machines, and developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.

    1975: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge dies. He made major contributions to X-ray machines, and developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.

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