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||1877 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945) | ||1877 – Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945) | ||
||Elmer Tiling Cunningham (b. September 1, 1889) was an American entrepreneur and businessman, specializing in vacuum tubes and radio manufacturing. He is best known for being the most successful business person to produce unlicensed counterfeit vacuum tubes. Pic tube. | |||
||1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955) | ||1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer and designer, invented the Human-powered aircraft (d. 1955) | ||
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1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1944: Mathematician and crime fighter Stefan Banach publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
2017: Signed first edition of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge sells for two and a half million dollars.