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File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, predicts "great things" for [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]].
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, predicts "great things" for [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]].
||Thomas Jones (b. 23 June 1756) was Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics.
||1868 – Typewriter: Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."


File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]].
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]].
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File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1913: While [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|testing new data transmission protocols]], Havelock and Nikola Tesla receive what appears to be a message from [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] containing a description of what will later be known as a [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]].
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1913: While [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|testing new data transmission protocols]], Havelock and Nikola Tesla receive what appears to be a message from [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] containing a description of what will later be known as a [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]].


||Boris Vian (French: [bɔʁis vjɑ̃]; 10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release.
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy [Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
 
||Boris Vian (b. 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release.
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  • 1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian John Cantius born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.

    1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian John Cantius born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.

  • 1562: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, predicts "great things" for Alan Turing.

    1562: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, predicts "great things" for Alan Turing.

  • 1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.

    1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.

  • 1913: While testing new data transmission protocols, Havelock and Nikola Tesla receive what appears to be a message from Alan Turing containing a description of what will later be known as a Turing machine.

    1913: While testing new data transmission protocols, Havelock and Nikola Tesla receive what appears to be a message from Alan Turing containing a description of what will later be known as a Turing machine.

  • Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.

    Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.

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