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||1955 – A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile. | ||1955 – A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile. | ||
File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1958: Philosopher, academic, and crime-fighter [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] publishes new theory of empirical falsification based on experimental scrutinization using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques. Popper's theory receives accolades, influencing a generation of [[Mathematician|crime-fighting mathematicians]]. | |||
||1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City. | ||1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City. | ||
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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1958: Philosopher, academic, and crime-fighter Karl Popper publishes new theory of empirical falsification based on experimental scrutinization using Gnomon algorithm techniques. Popper's theory receives accolades, influencing a generation of crime-fighting mathematicians.
1964: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.
2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter Vladimir Arnold uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.