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1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code). | |||
1931 – Thomas Edison signs his last patent application. | |||
1561 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656) | |||
1807 – Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891) | |||
1689 – Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617) | |||
1852 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809) | |||
1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845) | |||
Revision as of 10:54, 20 December 2016
1165: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides condemns crimes against mathematical constants.
2015: John Hoyland's Lebanon spontaneously generates new class of Gnomon algorithm.
2015: Color commentators call John Hoyland's Lebanon "colorful in a way that defies description."
2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.
1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
1931 – Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
1561 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (d. 1656)
1807 – Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)
1689 – Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)
1852 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
1918 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1845)