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||1811: Johann Beckmann dies ... 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 | ||1811: Johann Beckmann dies ... 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 | ||
||1821: Elizabeth Blackwell born ... physician and educator. | ||1821: Elizabeth Blackwell born ... physician and educator. She played an important role in both the United States and the United Kingdom as a social and moral reformer. She acted as a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine. Pic. | ||
||1831: Ogden Nicholas Rood born ... physicist best known for his work in color theory. Pic. | ||1831: Ogden Nicholas Rood born ... physicist best known for his work in color theory. Pic. | ||
||1859: Hugo Junkers born ... engineer, designed the Junkers J 1. | ||1859: Hugo Junkers born ... engineer, designed the Junkers J 1. Pic. | ||
File:Jean Baptiste Biot.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Biot]] dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light. | File:Jean Baptiste Biot.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician [[Jean-Baptiste Biot (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Biot]] dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light. | ||
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File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1863: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained. | File:Wilhelm Bauer.gif|link=Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|1863: Inventor and engineer [[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained. | ||
||1884: Gotthilf | ||1884: Gotthilf Hagen dies ... civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory. Pic. | ||
||1887: Georg Trakl born ... pharmacist and poet. | ||1887: Georg Trakl born ... pharmacist and poet. Pic. | ||
||1890: Paul | ||1890: Paul Scherrer born ... physicist. Pic. | ||
File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Maurice Julia]] born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set. | File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Maurice Julia]] born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set. | ||
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||1898: Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn born ...mathematician of Jewish origin who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma. Pic. | ||1898: Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn born ...mathematician of Jewish origin who is best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma. Pic. | ||
||1905: Arne Beurling born ... mathematician and academic ... worked extensively in harmonic analysis, complex analysis and potential theory. The "Beurling factorization" helped mathematical scientists to understand the Wold decomposition, and inspired further work on the invariant subspaces of linear operators and operator algebras, e.g. Håkan Hedenmalm's factorization theorem for Bergman spaces. | ||1905: Arne Beurling born ... mathematician and academic ... worked extensively in harmonic analysis, complex analysis and potential theory. The "Beurling factorization" helped mathematical scientists to understand the Wold decomposition, and inspired further work on the invariant subspaces of linear operators and operator algebras, e.g. Håkan Hedenmalm's factorization theorem for Bergman spaces. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=arne+beurling | ||
||1909: Simone Weil born ... mystic and philosopher. | ||1909: Simone Weil born ... mystic and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1911: Francis Joseph Murray born ... mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras. | ||1911: Francis Joseph Murray born ... mathematician, known for his foundational work (with John von Neumann) on functional analysis, and what subsequently became known as von Neumann algebras. | ||
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1468: Blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, and publisher Johannes Gutenberg dies.
1581: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke develops new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on tangents and secants.
1767: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi uses scrying engine to pre-visualize the dwarf planet Ceres.
1862: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot dies. He established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.
1863: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer uses Gnomon algorithm functions to power new type of submarine, capable of remaining submerged as long as computation is maintained.
1893: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia born. He will devise the formula for the Julia set.
1929: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang dies. He invented the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
1959: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting."
1961: The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
1975: Physicist and engineer William D. Coolidge dies. He made major contributions to X-ray machines, and developed ductile tungsten for incandescent light bulbs.
2017: Crimson Blossom voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.