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||1729 – Thomas Newcomen, English engineer, invented the eponymous Newcomen atmospheric engine (b. 1664) | ||1729 – Thomas Newcomen, English engineer, invented the eponymous Newcomen atmospheric engine (b. 1664) | ||
||Johann Georg Büsch (d. August 5, 1800) was a German mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce. Pic. | |||
||1802 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1829) | ||1802 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician and theorist (d. 1829) | ||
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1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1910: Mathematician Julius Petersen dies. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs is a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1921: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.
1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
1981: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits begins North American tour.