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||1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1953) | ||1861 – Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1953) | ||
||Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin (b. 6 February 1865) was an astronomer of French and Huguenot descent who was born in Cushendun, County Antrim, Ireland. He worked at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and went on several solar eclipse expeditions. | |||
||Eldridge Reeves Johnson (b. February 6, 1867) was an American businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. | ||Eldridge Reeves Johnson (b. February 6, 1867) was an American businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. | ||
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1582: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Mario Bettinus born. He will write Apiaria Universae Philosophiae Mathematicae, an encyclopedic collection of mathematical curiosities.
1614: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to investigate the possibility of certain knowledge.
1804: British scientist Joseph Priestley dies. He is historically credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in its gaseous state, but his determination to defend phlogiston theory and to reject what would become the chemical revolution left him isolated within the scientific community.
1958: Air Force and Navy personnel begin search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb, which was lost in an accident the day before.
1958: Woodward and Burroughs use Extract of Radium to predict location of the the Tybee Bomb.
1989: Lorenz system exposed to Extract of Radium, develops Wumpus-compass syndrome.