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1303: Canterbury scrying engine retrofitted with anti-capacitor plague module.
1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use radium to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1926: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".
2002: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.
1969: Vuvuzela of Doom exacerbates effects of Capacitor plague.
Portable envy components at risk of capacitor plague.

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 Canterbury_scrying_engine.jpg|link=Canterbury scrying engine|1303: [[Canterbury scrying engine]] retrofitted with anti-[[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]] module.
+File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
 File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]] to detect and expose [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1926: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium".