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At the age of 17 Mach began his college education
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Mach received his doctorate in Physics
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Mach taught physics and mechanics in this time period then became a professor of mathematics at the University of Graz
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Mach discovered and Introduced a phenomena, dubbed Mach Bands, that is the tendency of the human eye to see light or dark bands near boundaries between areas of sharply differing illumination.
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He left Graz University to become a professor in experimental physics at the University of Prague, where he stayed for the next 28 years.
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In this time-span, Mach developed optical and photographic techniques for the measurement of sound waves and wave propagation.
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Mach hypothesized that all knowledge is derived from sensation. This meant that phenomena under scientific investigation can be understood only in terms of experiences present in the observation of the phenomena. He also proposed the Mach’s principlewhich stated that inertia results from a relationship of that object with all the rest of the matter in the universe.
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Mach established the principles of supersonics and the Mach number, which is the ratio of the velocity of an object to the velocity of sound.
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Mach Returned to University of Vienna as a professor of inductive philosophy.
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Mach suffered from a stroke which left the right side of his body paralyzed.
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Mach retired from all research and development and was oppointed to the upper chamber of the Austrian parliament.
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Ernst Mach's Autobiography was published
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Marred by poor health and the suicide of his son Heinrich, Mach moved to Vaterstetten near Munich to be with his eldest son Ludwig.
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