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||1718: Jacques Ozanam dies ... mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||1718: Jacques Ozanam dies ... mathematician. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1753: Simon Willard born ... celebrated U.S. clockmaker. Among his many innovations and timekeeping improvements, Simon Willard is best known for inventing the eight-day patent timepiece that came to be known as the gallery or banjo clock. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13606676/simon-willard | |||
File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | File:Ernst Chladni.jpg|link=Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|1827: Physicist, musician, and academic [[Ernst Chladni (nonfiction)|Ernst Chladni]] dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics. | ||
Revision as of 11:50, 26 August 2018
1693: Carpenter and clockmaker John Harrison born. He will invent a marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1841: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1998: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright dies. She did pioneering work in chaos theory.
1999: Sensors on the Mir spacecraft detect patterns of electricity which reveal existence of a vast artificial intelligence in the Earth's ionosphere.
