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||1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris. | ||1865 – The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris. | ||
||Ebenezer Cunningham (b. 7 May) was a British mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity. | ||Ludwik Silberstein (b. 1872) was a Polish-American physicist who helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. His textbook The Theory of Relativity was published by Macmillan in 1914 with a second edition, expanded to include general relativity, in 1924. | ||
||Ebenezer Cunningham (b. 7 May 1881) was a British mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity. | |||
||1893 – Frederick McKinley Jones, African-American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1961) | ||1893 – Frederick McKinley Jones, African-American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1961) | ||
Revision as of 21:15, 14 December 2017
1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent outbreak of Kingpin inclination.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2016: Math criminal Anarchimedes plans to steal, restore, and weaponize the Antikythera mechanism, warn crime analysts.