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||1889: Antonio Meucci dies ... engineer ... Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone. Pic. | ||1889: Antonio Meucci dies ... engineer ... Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone. Pic. | ||
||1894: William F. Raynolds dies ... explorer, engineer and U.S. army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and American Civil War. He is best known for leading the 1859–60 Raynolds Expedition while serving as a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. During the 1850s and again after his participation in the Civil War, Raynolds was the head engineer on numerous lighthouse construction projects. He oversaw riverway and harbor dredging projects intended to improve accessibility and navigation for shipping. As a cartographer, Raynolds surveyed and mapped the islands and shorelines on the Great Lakes and other regions. At least six lighthouses whose construction he oversaw are still standing. Pic. | |||
||1902: Pascual Jordan born ... physicist and theorist. Pic. | ||1902: Pascual Jordan born ... physicist and theorist. Pic. | ||
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||1921: Beatrice Helen Worsley born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Beatrice+Helen+Worsley | ||1921: Beatrice Helen Worsley born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Beatrice+Helen+Worsley | ||
File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1921: [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] | File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1921: [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] introduces his quantum model of the atom. | ||
||1922: The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service. | ||1922: The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service. | ||
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1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.
1871: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1921: Niels Bohr introduces his quantum model of the atom.
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.