1823
Invention of Rugby
Picks up the ball during a game of football, leads to the game of rugby
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Rugby in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Picks up the ball during a game of football, leads to the game of rugby
Proposes wavefront reconstruction as a method to overcome limitations in electron microscopy, establishing the principle of holography.
Provenance
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