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||1839: Josiah Willard Gibbs born ... physicist, mathematician, and academic. Pic.
||1839: Josiah Willard Gibbs born ... physicist, mathematician, and academic. Pic.
||1839: Almon Brown Strowger born ... inventor who gave his name to the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent inspired. Pic.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

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  • 1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

    1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

  • 1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.

    1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.

  • 1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

    1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

  • 1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

    1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

  • 1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.

    1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.

  • 1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

    1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

  • 1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

    1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

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    1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter Charles Critchfield uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

    1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

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