11 events with tag "prediction"
585 BC
ID: 3695
May 28, 585 BC
Eclipse of Thales - solar eclipse stops battle between Lydians and Medes, Thales predicted it
ID: 3695
1705
ID: 454
Edmund Halley uses Newton's gravitational theory to predict return of Halley's Comet, demonstrating mathematical laws can predict future
ID: 454
1757
ID: 553
Alexis Clairaut uses perturbation theory to predict Halley's Comet return 618 days late
ID: 553
1846
ID: 860
Le Verrier and Adams independently predict Neptune's existence using mathematics - found within 1 degree
ID: 860
1951
ID: 1658
First commercial computer UNIVAC I predicts Eisenhower election victory
ID: 1658
1952
ID: 4259
November 1952
UNIVAC I correctly predicts Eisenhower landslide on CBS television with only 7% of vote counted - public introduction to computers
ID: 4259
1965
ID: 4321
April 1965
Gordon Moore predicts transistor density will double every year - Moore's Law shapes semiconductor industry
ID: 4321
1985
ID: 4508
Kolmogorov complexity applications - computational irreducibility discovered by Wolfram
ID: 4508
2001
ID: 3067
Douglas Valentine predicts Phoenix would become bureaucratic model for homeland security program enveloping America
ID: 3067
2004
ID: 3109
Study predicts vaccine immunity wanes in 25 years
ID: 3109
2009
ID: 3175
Royal Society predicts large epidemic cycles from high vaccination rates
ID: 3175