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||1913 – Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (d. 2012) | ||1913 – Bernard Lovell, English physicist and astronomer (d. 2012) | ||
||Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (d. 31 August 1920) was a French pioneer of color photography. He worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both additive and subtractive methods; and introduced the anaglyph stereoscopic print, the "red and blue glasses" type of 3-D print. Pic. | |||
||1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit. | ||1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit. | ||
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1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."