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||1925: Paul B. MacCready Jr. born ... aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could "Do more with less". Pic. | ||1925: Paul B. MacCready Jr. born ... aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the first Kremer prize. He devoted his life to developing more efficient transportation vehicles that could "Do more with less". Pic. | ||
||1927: Willem Einthoven dies ... physician, physiologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"). Pic. | |||
||1928: Ernst Steinitz dies ... mathematician. Pic: https://ztfnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/%EF%BB%BFernst-steinitz%EF%BB%BF-1871-1928/ | ||1928: Ernst Steinitz dies ... mathematician. Pic: https://ztfnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/%EF%BB%BFernst-steinitz%EF%BB%BF-1871-1928/ |
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1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung authorizes the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Investor and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)."
2015: Two Creatures 3 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.