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File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
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File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1795: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] uses the French [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore system]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1795: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] uses the French [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore system]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1779: Jeremiah Dixon born ... surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line. Pic: grave marker.
||1779: Jeremiah Dixon born ... surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line. Pic: grave marker. No pics online.


||1799: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure dies ... physicist and meteorologist ... often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven. Pic.
||1799: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure dies ... physicist and meteorologist ... often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven. Pic.
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||1922: Camille Jordan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1922: Camille Jordan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1927: Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
||1927: Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Teddy+Wakelam&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS702US702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDpffLnpjnAhXQU80KHT_9CNIQ_AUoAXoECA4QAw&biw=695&bih=669


||1946: Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
||1946: Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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||1968: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
||1968: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.


||1968: Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam, begins installation.
File:Air_Force_ordnancemen_load_a_dispenser_with_seismic_sensors.jpg|link=Operation Igloo White (nonfiction)|1968: [[Operation Igloo White (nonfiction)|Operation Igloo White]], a US electronic surveillance system, begins installation: the first of 316 sensors are implanted around and near Khe Sanh in 44 strings by Navy squadron VO-67.


||1970: The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
||1970: The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
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||1973: The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
||1973: The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.


||1975: Paul Antoine Aristide Montel dies ... mathematician. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis.
||1975: Paul Montel dies ... mathematician. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+Antoine+Aristide+Montel


||1980: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop dies ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic.
||1980: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop dies ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic.

Revision as of 15:30, 22 January 2020

  • 1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

    1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

  • 1673: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz presents a calculation machine at the Royal Society. Leibniz would complain to Oldenburg that Hooke took an "almost obscene" interest in the machine. Sure enough, by Feb 2 Hooke was actively working on an "arithmetic engine" that he would complete and show to the Royal Society within the month. By the following month his interest waned and he decided that no mechanical device could compare to paper and pencil or "Lord Napier's metal or parchment rods" (Napiers bones).

    1673: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz presents a calculation machine at the Royal Society. Leibniz would complain to Oldenburg that Hooke took an "almost obscene" interest in the machine. Sure enough, by Feb 2 Hooke was actively working on an "arithmetic engine" that he would complete and show to the Royal Society within the month. By the following month his interest waned and he decided that no mechanical device could compare to paper and pencil or "Lord Napier's metal or parchment rods" (Napiers bones).

  • 1795: Inventor Claude Chappe uses the French semaphore system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1795: Inventor Claude Chappe uses the French semaphore system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1859: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.

    1859: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.

  • 1890: Electrical engineer, inventor, and crime-fighter Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger demonstrates new type of alternating current electrical meter which uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.

    1890: Electrical engineer, inventor, and crime-fighter Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger demonstrates new type of alternating current electrical meter which uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.

  • 1909: Chemist and academic Emil Erlenmeyer dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.

    1909: Chemist and academic Emil Erlenmeyer dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.

  • 1904: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.

    1904: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.

  • 1953: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental scrying engine which unexpectedly previews the upcoming arrest of George Metesky.

    1953: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental scrying engine which unexpectedly previews the upcoming arrest of George Metesky.

  • 1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

    1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

  • 1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to detect and prevent crimes against poetry.

    1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to detect and prevent crimes against poetry.

  • 1968: Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system, begins installation: the first of 316 sensors are implanted around and near Khe Sanh in 44 strings by Navy squadron VO-67.

    1968: Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system, begins installation: the first of 316 sensors are implanted around and near Khe Sanh in 44 strings by Navy squadron VO-67.

  • 1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.

    1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.

  • 2018: Steganographic analysis of Humpty Dumpty At Bat reveals formula for Extract of Radium.

    2018: Steganographic analysis of Humpty Dumpty At Bat reveals formula for Extract of Radium.

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