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||1704 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and businessman (d. 1776) | ||1704 – Benjamin Huntsman, English inventor and businessman (d. 1776) | ||
||Johann Beckmann (b. June 4, 1739) was a German scientific author and coiner of the word technology, to mean the science of trades. He was the first man to teach technology and write about it as an academic subject. Pic. | |||
||1744 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle (d. 1780) | ||1744 – Patrick Ferguson, Scottish soldier, designed the Ferguson rifle (d. 1780) | ||
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1472: Aztec philosopher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler Nezahualcoyotl dies. He had an experience of an "Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere" to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed.
1782: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain publishes analysis of Fermat's Last Theorem will provides a foundation for mathematicians fighting crimes against mathematical constants for hundreds of years after.
1783: The Montgolfier brothers give first public demonstration of balloon flight.
1943: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses punched card computation to forecast the position of German submarine U-505 a year in advance, giving the U.S. Navy a strategic advantage in the Second World War.
1944: World War Two: A hunter-killer group of the United States Navy captures the German submarine U-505: The first time a U.S. Navy vessel had captured an enemy vessel at sea since the 19th century.
1992: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) dies. He contributed to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.