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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)
File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.


||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.
||1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808) - voice-communication apparatus Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (d. 18 October 1889) was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi. 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)

Revision as of 19:12, 17 January 2018

  • 1791: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.

    1791: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.

  • 1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".

    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.

    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.

    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.

    2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.

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