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||1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791) | ||1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791) | ||
||1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808) - voice-communication apparatus | ||1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808) - voice-communication apparatus Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo meˈuttʃi]; 13 April 1808 – 18 October 1889) was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi.[1][2] Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone. | ||
||1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (d. 1980) | ||1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (d. 1980) |
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1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.