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proposes that long term climatic cycles may be due to changes in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and changes in the Earth's obliquity ("
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Michelson, Albert Abraham; Pease, Francis G. (1921). "Measurement of the diameter of alpha Orionis with the interferometer".
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Russell, Ben (2023). "A curator at the height of his power: H. W. Dickinson... and the Newcomen Society, 1919–1930".
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discovers that the dynamical constants of motion determine the distribution function for a system of particles.
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founded in the United Kingdom for the study of the history of engineering and technology.
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September 29 – First domestic radio sets come to stores in the United States – a
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Théorie mathématique des phénomènes thermiques produits par la radiation solaire
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on its way to the Moon, the newspaper will publicly retract this position.
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International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology
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establishes the world's first institute for the academic study of
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first describes some of the symptoms of what will become known as
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is the first to have its diameter determined by an optical
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