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||1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879) | ||1814 – Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (d. 1879) | ||
File:Samuel_Morse_1840.jpg|link=Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|1872: Painter and inventor [[Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|Samuel Morse]] dies. He co-invented the Morse code. | |||
||Antonio Signorini (b. 2 April 1888) was an influential Italian mathematical physicist and civil engineer of the 20th century. He is known for his work in finite elasticity, thermoelasticity and for formulating the Signorini problem. Pic. | ||Antonio Signorini (b. 2 April 1888) was an influential Italian mathematical physicist and civil engineer of the 20th century. He is known for his work in finite elasticity, thermoelasticity and for formulating the Signorini problem. Pic. | ||
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1565: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman born. He will discover a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1615: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei teams up with orbital artificial intelligence AESOP to stop crimes against the ionosphere.
1618: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi born. Working with Riccioli, he will investigate the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.
1872: Painter and inventor Samuel Morse dies. He co-invented the Morse code.
1902: Graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold born. He will become a leading advocate of Modernist design, but later condemn Modernist design in general as being authoritarian and inherently fascistic.
1922: Turbulent Head awarded Newbery Medal for "best new children's book cover art."
1923: Polymath George Spencer-Brown born. He will write Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".