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||2016: Ursula Franklin dies ... research physicist and metallurgist. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. For her, technology was much more than machines, gadgets or electronic transmitters. It was a comprehensive system that includes methods, procedures, organization, "and most of all, a mindset". She distinguished between holistic technologies used by craft workers or artisans and prescriptive ones associated with a division of labour in large-scale production.  Pic.
||2016: Ursula Franklin dies ... research physicist and metallurgist. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. For her, technology was much more than machines, gadgets or electronic transmitters. It was a comprehensive system that includes methods, procedures, organization, "and most of all, a mindset". She distinguished between holistic technologies used by craft workers or artisans and prescriptive ones associated with a division of labour in large-scale production.  Pic.
File:Spiral.jpg|link=Spiral (image) (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of '''''[[Spiral (image) (nonfiction)|Spiral]]''''' sells for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent mathematician and long-time resident of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."


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  • 1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered the dwarf planet Ceres.

    1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered the dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.

    1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.

    1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.

  • 1861: Capture of the Enchantress by the US Albatross.

    1861: Capture of the Enchantress by the US Albatross.

  • 1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.

    1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.

  • 1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt tries to warn NASA that Mariner 1 has been targeted by math criminals.

    1962: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveler Henrietta Bolt tries to warn NASA that Mariner 1 has been targeted by math criminals.

  • 1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.

    1962: Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed.

  • 1965: Computer hacker Karl Koch born. Koch will be a cold war computer hacking incident involved in selling hacked information from United States military computers to the KGB. His death by fire will be ruled a suicide.

    1965: Computer hacker Karl Koch born. Koch will be a cold war computer hacking incident involved in selling hacked information from United States military computers to the KGB. His death by fire will be ruled a suicide.

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