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||1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City. | ||1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City. | ||
File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|1964: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. | |||
||1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897) | ||1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897) | ||
File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser. | File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser. | ||
File:Vladimir Arnold.jpg|link=Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]] uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||2016 – Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925) | ||2016 – Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925) | ||
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1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
1964: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.
2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter Vladimir Arnold uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.