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||1889: The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta. | ||1889: The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta. | ||
||1893: Erwin Otto Marx was a German electrical engineer who invented the Marx generator, a device for producing high voltage electrical pulses. He worked on electrical power distribution via long distances. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Erwin+Otto+Marx | |||
||1895: Artturi Ilmari Virtanen born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1895: Artturi Ilmari Virtanen born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1896: Photographer and journalist [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] dies. He was one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War. | File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1896: Photographer and journalist [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] dies. He was one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War. | ||
||1908: Edward Teller born ... physicist and academic. | ||1908: Edward Teller born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Edward Teller 1958.jpg|link=Edward Teller (nonfiction)|1908: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Edward Teller (nonfiction)|Edward Teller]] born. He will be known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he will not care for the epithet. | File:Edward Teller 1958.jpg|link=Edward Teller (nonfiction)|1908: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Edward Teller (nonfiction)|Edward Teller]] born. He will be known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he will not care for the epithet. | ||
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1450: Polymath, cartographer, globe-builder, and crime-fighter Johannes Schöner demonstrates new type of globe which uses scrying engine techniques to detect and prevent crimes against geology.
1623: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi dies. He was a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
1818: A paper by British physicist David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals.
1896: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady dies. He was one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1908: Theoretical physicist and academic Edward Teller born. He will be known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he will not care for the epithet.
1945: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger dies. He contributed to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
1982: Fantasy Voronoi diagram commentators say that the upcoming Stardust mission "is certain to return interesting samples of dust from the coma of comet Wild 2."
2003: Chromatographic analysis of the famous Superimposed Fraunhofer misprint stamps reveals "at least fifty, perhaps as many as sixty" previously unknown colors.
2006: A capsule of dust samples collected by the spacecraft Stardust returns to Earth.
2018: High-energy physicists discover a "Greedy coloring" particle which "drains all the color from color commentary."