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September 9th
| 1839 | John Herschel took the first glass plate photograph. A friend of mathematicians Charles Babbage and George Peacock, he was the Cambridge University Senior Wrangler in 1813, having received the highest score on the Mathematical Tripos examination.
More information about: John Herschel Charles Babbage George Peacock |
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| 1883 | Victor Puiseux died in Frontenay, France, and two years later his friend Jean-Claude Bouquet died in Paris, France. Both mathematicians worked on elliptic functions.
More information about: Victor Puiseux Jean-Claude Bouquet |
| 1947 | First computer "bug," an actual moth caught in the machinery of the Harvard Mark II computer, logged at 15:45 hours.
More information about: The First Computer Bug Harvard Mark II |
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