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File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=[[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1610: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day. | File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=[[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1610: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day. | ||
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which convert Newtonian principles into an early version of quantum mechanics. | File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which convert Newtonian principles into an early version of quantum mechanics. | ||
||1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and mineralogist (b. 1715) | |||
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1827: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] born. He will propose worldwide standard time zones. | File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1827: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] born. He will propose worldwide standard time zones. | ||
File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1834: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] computes simple [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which accurately simulate the electrical motors he will build later in life. | File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1834: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] computes simple [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which accurately simulate the electrical motors he will build later in life. | ||
File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1834: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] born. He will invent the Reis Telephone. | File:Johann Philipp Reis.jpg|link=|1834: Scientist and inventor [[Johann Philipp Reis (nonfiction)|Johann Philipp Reis]] born. He will invent the Reis Telephone. | ||
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1835: [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] writes unit tests for [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1835: [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] writes unit tests for [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956) | |||
||1878 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist, physician, and physiologist (b. 1794) | |||
File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1882: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He built the world's first oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp. | File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1882: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He built the world's first oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp. | ||
||1893 – Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835) | |||
||1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. | |||
||1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS". | |||
||1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (d. 1988) | |||
||1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London. | |||
File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to forecast outcomes for the [[Manhattan Project]]. | File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to forecast outcomes for the [[Manhattan Project]]. | ||
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1943: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. | File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1943: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. | ||
||1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO. | |||
||1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. | |||
||1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral. | |||
||1968 – J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897) | |||
||1984 – Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) | |||
||1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. | |||
||1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) | |||
||2012 – Herbert Wilf, American mathematician and academic (b. 1931) | |||
File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' used to convict supervillain [[Gnotilus]] ''in absentio''. | File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' used to convict supervillain [[Gnotilus]] ''in absentio''. | ||
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Revision as of 15:58, 1 October 2017
1610: Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.
1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which convert Newtonian principles into an early version of quantum mechanics.
1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming born. He will propose worldwide standard time zones.
1834: Electrical engineer Zénobe Gramme computes simple Gnomon algorithm functions which accurately simulate the electrical motors he will build later in life.
1834: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis born. He will invent the Reis Telephone.
1835: Ada Lovelace writes unit tests for Gnomon algorithm functions.
1882: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist Ignacy Łukasiewicz born. He built the world's first oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp.
1933: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu uses Gnomon algorithm functions to forecast outcomes for the Manhattan Project.
1943: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens used to convict supervillain Gnotilus in absentio.
