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File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1795: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] uses the French [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore system]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1795: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] uses the French [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore system]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Jeremiah Dixon FRS (b. 22 January 1779) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line. | ||Jeremiah Dixon FRS (b. 22 January 1779) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line. | ||
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1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1795: Inventor Claude Chappe uses the French semaphore system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1859: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.
1890: Electrical engineer, inventor, and crime-fighter Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger demonstrates new type of alternating current electrical meter which uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1909: Chemist and academic Emil Erlenmeyer dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.
1910: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Nikola Tesla uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1904: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.
1953: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental scrying engine which unexpectedly previews the upcoming arrest of George Metesky.
1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to detect and prevent crimes against poetry.
1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Humpty Dumpty At Bat reveals formula for Extract of Radium.