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File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1801: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history. | File:Jean-Louis_Pons.jpg|link=Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|1801: Astronomer [[Jean-Louis Pons (nonfiction)|Jean-Louis Pons]] makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history. | ||
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1957: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:EDSAC.jpg|link=Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|1958: [[Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|EDSAC]], the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2. | File:EDSAC.jpg|link=Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|1958: [[Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (nonfiction)|EDSAC]], the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2. | ||
File:Telstar.jpg|link=Telstar (nonfiction)|1963: [[Telstar (nonfiction)|Telstar]] becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
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Revision as of 16:07, 25 June 2017
1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1957: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.
1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.