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Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/December

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Selected anniversaries in December

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  • 1571 - Birth of Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)





  • 1962 - NASA "Relay 1" launch, first active repeater communications satellite in orbit


  • 1782 - The Montgolfier brothers first balloon lifts on its first test flight






  • 1814 - Death of Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump


  • 1917 - Birth of David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992)