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||1860: The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty. | ||1860: The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty. | ||
||1861: Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton born ... consulting electrical engineer, who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television, two decades before the technology existed to implement it. Pic. | |||
|| | File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1871: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers. | ||
||1902: Pascual Jordan born ... physicist and theorist. | ||1889: Antonio Meucci dies ... engineer ... Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone. Pic. | ||
||1902: Pascual Jordan born ... physicist and theorist. Pic. | |||
File:George E P Box.jpg|link=George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|1919: Statistician and educator [[George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|George E. P. Box]] born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century". | File:George E P Box.jpg|link=George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|1919: Statistician and educator [[George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|George E. P. Box]] born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century". | ||
||1921: Beatrice Helen Worsley born ... computer scientist and academic. | ||1921: Beatrice Helen Worsley born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Beatrice+Helen+Worsley | ||
File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1921: [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] introduced his quantum model of the atom. | File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1921: [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] introduced his quantum model of the atom. | ||
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1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.
1871: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1921: Niels Bohr introduced his quantum model of the atom.
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.