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1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
1699: Omar Khayyam publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
1897: British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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 ||Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin (b. 2 July 1892) was a Swedish businessman and inventor of encryption machines.
+||Sir Francis Simon (b. 2 July 1893), was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb. Pic.
 File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1897: British-Italian engineer [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] obtains a patent for radio in London.