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||1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. | ||1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas. | ||
||Edouard Sarasin (b. 20 May 1843) was an independent scientist in Geneva. Born in a wealthy family, he established a private laboratory where he collaborated with other researchers. His studies included those on the properties of waves, resonance, radiowaves, radiation and geophysics. | |||
||1860 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, zymologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917) | ||1860 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, zymologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917) |
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1806: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill born. He will be one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
1887: Famed gem detective and crystallographer Niles Cartouchian uses Schumann resonances to communicate with fellow crime-fighter Nikola Tesla.
1888: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann born. He will predict the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.
1889: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla radio technology to intercept communications between math criminals, providing information which will lead to the capture of Baron Zersetzung.
1891: History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1932: Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.