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||William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson (b. 3 August 1860) was a Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
||William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson (b. 3 August 1860) was a Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
||Mark Kac (b. August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was "no", in general.) Pic.


File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1916: Well-known illustration ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' is exhibited in Paris for the first time.
File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1916: Well-known illustration ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' is exhibited in Paris for the first time.

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