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File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1746: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry. | File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1746: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry. | ||
File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner| | File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1940: [[John Brunner]] uses a [[Scrying engine|Lee and Turner scrying engine]] to compute the "near certain probability" that the Royal Navy will succeed in capturing the [[German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|German submarine U-110]]. | ||
File:U-110.jpg|link=German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|1941: The [[German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|German submarine U-110]] is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. | File:U-110.jpg|link=German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|1941: The [[German submarine U-110 (1940) (nonfiction)|German submarine U-110]] is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages. |
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1746: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge born. He will invent descriptive geometry, and do pioneering work in differential geometry.
1940: John Brunner uses a Lee and Turner scrying engine to compute the "near certain probability" that the Royal Navy will succeed in capturing the German submarine U-110.
1941: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to pre-visualize crimes against mathematical constants.