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{{Short description|German engineer and mathematician}} '''Edmund Schuster''' (7 September 1851 – 5 July 1932) was a German engineer and mathematician who contributed to the field of special function ...

...achine''' was a special-purpose mechanical [[analog computer]] of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, constructed and set up to predict the ebb and flo ...ide-predicting machine in 1953-55 "at unbelievable expense", see [[#refdsm|German Maritime Museum (online exhibit)]].</ref> They were made obsolete by digita ...

==Prior to 17th century== ...irst2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|isbn=978-0-7126-5616-0}}</ref> ...

...y]], [[biology]], [[geology]] and [[geography]]. [[Russian inventors]] and engineers excelled in such areas as [[electrical engineering]], [[shipbuilding]], [[a At the start of the 18th century the [[Reforms of Peter I of Russia|reforms of Peter the Great]] (founder of ...

...th-century English—an overview |url=https://public.oed.com/blog/nineteenth-century-english-an-overview/ |access-date=7 November 2020 |website=Oxford English D ...st=Badash |first=Lawrence |date=1972 |title=The completeness of nineteenth-century science |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/350840 | ...

...Middle Ages]] until the development of [[gunpowder]] artillery in the 14th century rendered them mostly obsolete. ...ion siege engines that had existed since at least the beginning of the 4th century BC, most notably the [[gastraphetes]] in [[Heron of Alexandria|Heron of Ale ...

[[Radio wave]]s were first identified in German physicist [[Heinrich Hertz]]'s 1887 series of experiments to prove James Cl | publisher = Inst. of Electrical Engineers ...

...enturies when a rigorous symbolic formalism was developed. In the mid-19th century, the scope of algebra broadened beyond a [[theory of equations]] to cover d ...[[polynomial equations]] in view of solving them. This changed in the 19th century{{efn|These changes were in part triggered by discoveries that solved many o ...

...ternal combustion engine, the [[Otto engine]], was designed in 1876 by the German engineer [[Nicolaus Otto]].<ref name="EB1">{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia ...orld History of the Automobile |date=2001 |publisher=Society of Automotive Engineers |location=Germany |isbn=978-0-7680-0800-5 |page=371 |url=https://books.goog ...

...|Columba]] is a small, faint [[constellation]] named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is [[Latin]] for [[dove]]. It is located just south of [[Canis Ma ...aint constellation in the [[southern sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise] ...

...e research on bifacial solar cells well until the first decade of the 21st century, with remarkable results. For example, in 1994, two Brazilian PhD students ...on low temperature silicon surface passivation |journal=Proceedings of the 19th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, New Orleans |year=1987 |pages=388 ...

...hyssenkrupp-to-launch-revolutionary-rope-free-elevator-in-2022 |title=This German Company Is Inventing an Elevator That Goes Sideways |newspaper=Construction ...Tafel 09, Blatt 38v (Ausschnitt).jpg|thumb|upright|Elevator design by the German engineer [[Konrad Kyeser]] (1405)]] ...

<ref name="Stirzaker2000" /> At the end of the 19th century, [[Ladislaus Bortkiewicz]] studied the distribution, citing Poisson, using At the beginning of the 20th century the Poisson process (in one dimension) would arise independently in differe ...

..."/> In an abstract setting, Boolean algebra was perfected in the late 19th century by [[William Stanley Jevons|Jevons]], [[Ernst Schröder (mathematician)|Schr In the early 20th century, several electrical engineers{{who|date=November 2022}} intuitively recognized that Boolean algebra was a ...

...ved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century.{{R|"Warminster and Westbury Journal 11 July 1903"|"Wiltshire Times 9 Augus ...ere attending the County School.{{R|"Wiltshire Times 28 November 1914"}} [[German invasion of Belgium (1914)|Germany had invaded Belgium]] on 4{{Nbsp}}August ...

...on has noted that Einstein's reminiscences were probably colored by a half-century of hindsight. Norton lists several problems with Einstein's recounting, bot :2. A 19th century [[Aether theories|aether theorist]] would have had no difficulties with the ...

...ectroscopy With Coherent Radiation |series=World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics |volume=21 |pages=115–127 |publisher=WORLD SCIENTIFIC |doi=10.1142/ ...archive-date=21 October 2007|access-date=16 February 2022}}</ref> In 1964, engineers at [[Hewlett-Packard]] released the 5060 rack-mounted model of caesium cloc ...

...n Society of Mechanical Engineers | last2 = American Society of Mechanical Engineers | title = ASME engineer's data book | page = 249 | publisher = ASME Press | ..., who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.}} ...

...1=Beer |first1=F. |last2=Johnston |first2=E.R. |title=Vector mechanics for engineers: statics |publisher=McGraw Hill |year=1984 |pages=62–76}}</ref> The most co ...ity]] used in heat transfer calculations. It is named after the eighteenth century French physicist [[Jean-Baptiste Biot]] (1774–1862), and gives a simple ind ...

...of the House of Representatives to honor the life and achievements of 19th Century Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, and his work in the invention of ...Amati/Amaticello.html|title=Violoncello by Andrea Amati, Cremona, Mid-16th Century|website=collections.nmmusd.org|access-date=2019-11-05}}</ref> ...