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||1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (d. 1852) | ||1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge (d. 1852) | ||
||Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (b. 23 August 1797) was a mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. Pic. | |||
||1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736) | ||1806 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736) | ||
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1829: Mathematician and historian Moritz Cantor born. He will write Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, which traces the history of mathematics up to 1799.
1946: Signed first edition of Alice and Niles Dancing sells for ten thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast electrical intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere, now known as AESOP.
1999: Biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew dies. He shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Max Perutz for determining the atomic structures of proteins using X-ray crystallography.
2017: Reality TV show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Innovative Programming.