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File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1816: The British Admiralty dismisses [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]]'s new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1816: The British Admiralty dismisses [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]]'s new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.


File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1817: Statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] publishes his monumental study of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1817: Statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] publishes his monumental study of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|[[Bertrand Russell|1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.


||1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.


File:LED_Traffic_Light.jpg|link=Traffic light (nonfiction)|1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric [[Traffic light (nonfiction)|traffic light]] is installed.
File:LED_Traffic_Light.jpg|link=Traffic light (nonfiction)|1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric [[Traffic light (nonfiction)|traffic light]] is installed.

Revision as of 09:52, 5 August 2017

  • 1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.

    1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.

  • 1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.

    1901: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.

  • 1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.

    1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.

  • 1921: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.

    1921: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.

  • 1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.

    1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.

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