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||1920: The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400. | ||1920: The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400. | ||
||1921: Ursula Franklin born ... metallurgist. Pic. | ||1921: Ursula Franklin born ... 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. | ||
||1925: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||1925: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||
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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1838: The Orcagna scrying engine, under contract to the House of Malevecchio, downloads Abū Sahl al-Qūhī's Perfect Compass protocol. Malevecchio will attempt to monopolize the protocol, but five years later the French will announce Compas Parfait; within fifty years, all of Christendom will have similar systems.
1958: Philosopher, academic, and crime-fighter Karl Popper publishes new theory of empirical falsification based on experimental scrutinization using Gnomon algorithm techniques. Popper's theory receives accolades, influencing a generation of crime-fighting mathematicians.
1964: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.
2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter Vladimir Arnold uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Spinning Thistle voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.