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||1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon. | ||1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon. | ||
||1897 | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1897: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. | ||
||1905 – Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic (d. 2004) | ||1905 – Robert Bacher, American physicist and academic (d. 2004) | ||
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1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."