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||1837: Anatole Mallet born ... mechanical engineer ... inventor of the first successful compound system for a railway steam locomotive, patented in 1874. Pic.
||1837: Anatole Mallet born ... mechanical engineer ... inventor of the first successful compound system for a railway steam locomotive, patented in 1874. Pic.


||1848: Otto Lilienthal born ... pilot and engineer. PAGE EXISTS.
||1848: Otto Lilienthal born ... pilot and engineer. PAGE EXISTS, TO_DO.


||1887: Thoralf Skolem born ... mathematician and logician. Pic.
||1887: Thoralf Skolem born ... mathematician and logician. Pic.
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||1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
||1884: Corrado Gini born ... sociologist and statistician, Italian Fascism, eugenics. Pic search.


||1889: Georges Henri Halphen dies ... mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry.  Pic.
||1889: Georges Henri Halphen dies ... mathematician. He was known for his work in geometry, particularly in enumerative geometry and the singularity theory of algebraic curves, in algebraic geometry.  Pic.
File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.


||1908: John Bardeen born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1908: John Bardeen born ... physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1911: Leslie Howarth born ... mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics and aerodynamics. Pic: http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/55/107.full.pdf
||1911: Leslie Howarth born ... mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics and aerodynamics. Pic search.


||1912: Samuel Curran born ... physicist and the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde – the first of the new technical universities in Britain. He is the inventor of the scintillation counter, the proportional counter, and the proximity fuse. Pic: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0190&type=P
||1912: Samuel Curran born ... physicist and the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde – the first of the new technical universities in Britain. He is the inventor of the scintillation counter, the proportional counter, and the proximity fuse. Pic search.


||1915: S. Donald Stookey born ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=S.+Donald+Stookey&oq=S.+Donald+Stookey
||1915: S. Donald Stookey born ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare. Pic search.


||1915: Pierre-Émile Martin dies ... engineer who adapted the steelmaking process by using the open-hearth regenerative furnace invented by Charles William Siemens and Friedrich Siemens (1856), now known as the Siemens-Martin process. The Siemens' idea was to capture heat from exhaust gases in chambers flanking the furnace containing fire-bricks. When the flow is changed to preheat the input gases using recycled energy stored in the bricks, huge fuel savings result. Pic.
||1915: Pierre-Émile Martin dies ... engineer who adapted the steelmaking process by using the open-hearth regenerative furnace invented by Charles William Siemens and Friedrich Siemens (1856), now known as the Siemens-Martin process. The Siemens' idea was to capture heat from exhaust gases in chambers flanking the furnace containing fire-bricks. When the flow is changed to preheat the input gases using recycled energy stored in the bricks, huge fuel savings result. Pic.

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  • 1541: Mathematician, astronomer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Nicolaus Copernicus publishes evidence that the staunchly geocentric House of Malevecchio has committed or financed a series of unsolved crimes against the heliocentric model.

    1541: Mathematician, astronomer, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Nicolaus Copernicus publishes evidence that the staunchly geocentric House of Malevecchio has committed or financed a series of unsolved crimes against the heliocentric model.

  • 1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

    1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

  • 1734: Physician Franz Mesmer born. Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis.

    1734: Physician Franz Mesmer born. Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis.

  • 1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

    1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

  • 1917: Meteorologist, mathematician, and chaos theory pioneer Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.

    1917: Meteorologist, mathematician, and chaos theory pioneer Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.

  • 1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

    1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

  • 1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

    1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

  • 1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

    1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

  • 2005: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2005: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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