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||1839: James Blyth born ... electrical engineer and academic at Anderson's College, now the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. He was a pioneer in the field of electricity generation through wind power and his wind turbine, which was used to light his holiday home in Marykirk, was the world's first-known structure by which electricity was generated from wind power. Pic: http://scienceonstreets.phys.strath.ac.uk/new/James_Blyth.html | ||1839: James Blyth born ... electrical engineer and academic at Anderson's College, now the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. He was a pioneer in the field of electricity generation through wind power and his wind turbine, which was used to light his holiday home in Marykirk, was the world's first-known structure by which electricity was generated from wind power. Pic: http://scienceonstreets.phys.strath.ac.uk/new/James_Blyth.html | ||
File:Joseph Bertrand.jpg|link=Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|1841: Mathematician, economist, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|Joseph Louis François Bertrand]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which predict and prevent economic [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1842: Mathematician [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|Édouard Lucas]] born. He will study the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers will be named after him. | File:Édouard Lucas.png|link=Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|1842: Mathematician [[Édouard Lucas (nonfiction)|Édouard Lucas]] born. He will study the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers will be named after him. | ||
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||1870: Heinrich Gustav Magnus dies ... chemist and physicist. Pic. | ||1870: Heinrich Gustav Magnus dies ... chemist and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1868: Philippa Fawcett born ... mathematician and educator. | ||1868: Philippa Fawcett born ... mathematician and educator. Coming amidst the women's suffrage movement, Fawcett's career spurred much discussion about women's capacities and rights. Pic. | ||
||1879: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove dies ... physicist and meteorologist. | ||1879: Heinrich Wilhelm Dove dies ... physicist and meteorologist. Pic. | ||
||1884: Thomas Murray MacRobert born ... mathematician. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow and introduced the MacRobert E function, a generalisation of the generalised hypergeometric series. Pic: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2053&type=P | ||1884: Thomas Murray MacRobert born ... mathematician. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow and introduced the MacRobert E function, a generalisation of the generalised hypergeometric series. Pic: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH2053&type=P | ||
||1885: Berend George Escher born ... geologist. Pic. Escher had a broad interest, but his research was mainly on crystallography, mineralogy and volcanology. He was a pioneer in experimental geology. | ||1885: Berend George Escher born ... geologist. Pic. Escher had a broad interest, but his research was mainly on crystallography, mineralogy and volcanology. He was a pioneer in experimental geology. Pic. | ||
||1900: Wilfred | ||1900: Wilfred Holmes born ... US Naval officer, one of the Station HYPO staff, who had the idea of faking a water supply failure on Midway Island in 1942. He suggested using an unencrypted emergency warning, in the hope of provoking a Japanese response, thus establishing whether Midway was a target. Pic. | ||
File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] publishes paper on number theory as deterrent to [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Charles Hermite circa 1901.jpg|link=Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|1901: [[Charles Hermite (nonfiction)|Charles Hermite]] publishes paper on number theory as deterrent to [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1807: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande dies. As a lecturer and writer Lalande helped popularize astronomy. His planetary tables were the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
1809: Mathematician Benjamin Peirce born. He will make contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics; he will become known for the statement that "Mathematics is the science that draws necessary conclusions".
1826: Electrical engineer Zénobe Gramme born. He will invent the first usefully powerful electric motor.
1841: Mathematician, economist, and APTO field engineer Joseph Louis François Bertrand publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which predict and prevent economic crimes against mathematical constants.
1842: Mathematician Édouard Lucas born. He will study the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers will be named after him.
1901: Charles Hermite publishes paper on number theory as deterrent to crimes against mathematical constants.
1919: Chemist and physicist William Crookes dies. Crookes was a pioneer of vacuum tube technology, developing the partially evacuated Crookes tube circa 1869-1875.
1923: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn dies. He invented the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
1976: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist dies. He did early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which led to the development of information theory.
1977: Dave the Gamer announces "buy one, get one free" sale on all lucky dice in the store.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Tequila Sunrise unexpectedly reveals "at least five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.