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||1792: William Austin Burt born ... inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter constructed in America. He is referred to as the "father of the typewriter". Burt also invented the first workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea. Pic. | ||1792: William Austin Burt born ... inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter constructed in America. He is referred to as the "father of the typewriter". Burt also invented the first workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea. Pic. | ||
||1812: Photographer Adolphe Braun born ... best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes, and grand Alpine landscapes. One of the most influential French photographers of the 19th century, he used contemporary innovations in photographic reproduction to market his photographs worldwide. In his later years, he used photographic techniques to reproduce famous works of art, which helped advance the field of art history. Pic. | |||
||1815: Osip Ivanovich Somov born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1815: Osip Ivanovich Somov born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1884: Leon Chwistek born ... painter, philosopher, and mathematician. Pic: portrait by Witkacy, 1913. | ||1884: Leon Chwistek born ... painter, philosopher, and mathematician. Pic: portrait by Witkacy, 1913. | ||
||1893: Alan Arnold Griffith born ... engineer. Among many other contributions he is best known for his work on stress and fracture in metals that is now known as metal fatigue, as well as being one of the first to develop a strong theoretical basis for the jet engine. Pic search | ||1893: Alan Arnold Griffith born ... engineer. Among many other contributions he is best known for his work on stress and fracture in metals that is now known as metal fatigue, as well as being one of the first to develop a strong theoretical basis for the jet engine. Pic search. | ||
||1902: Carolyn Eisele born ... mathematician and historian. | ||1902: Carolyn Eisele born ... mathematician and historian. | ||
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||1920: Rolf Huisgen born ... chemist and academic. Alive March 2019. Pic. | ||1920: Rolf Huisgen born ... chemist and academic. Alive March 2019. Pic. | ||
||1920: Iosif Vorovich born ... mathematician and engineer. Vorovich specialized in continuum mechanics and the theory of elasticity; his main works deal with mathematical problems of continuum mechanics, the nonlinear theory of shells, problems of stress concentration and thick plates, and mixed problems in the theory of elasticity. Pic search | ||1920: Iosif Vorovich born ... mathematician and engineer. Vorovich specialized in continuum mechanics and the theory of elasticity; his main works deal with mathematical problems of continuum mechanics, the nonlinear theory of shells, problems of stress concentration and thick plates, and mixed problems in the theory of elasticity. Pic search. | ||
||1923: Lloyd Conover born ... chemist and inventor ... the inventor of tetracycline. Pic search | ||1923: Lloyd Conover born ... chemist and inventor ... the inventor of tetracycline. Pic search. | ||
||1927: Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City. Pic. | ||1927: Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City. Pic. | ||
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1508: Humanist and philosopher Alessandro Piccolomini born. Piccolomini will promote vernacular translations of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises.
1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
1580: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1629: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat uses scrying engine techniques to download award-winning children's book The Unruly Submarine.
1773: Polymath and physician Thomas Young born. Young will make notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.
1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.
1854: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.
1931: Mathematician and academic Herbert Saul Wilf born. Wilf specialized in combinatorics and graph theory.
1946: Celebrated children's book The Unruly Submarine wins Caldecott Medal.
1947: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes critical review of The Unruly Submarine, calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."
2017: Signed first edition of Embassy stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad daylight raid by agents of the Forbidden Ratio.