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||1810 – George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet (d. 1882)
||1810 – George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet (d. 1882)


||Elwin Bruno Christoffel (b. November 10, 1829) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.
File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.


||Amos Emerson Dolbear (b. November 10, 1837) was an American physicist and inventor. Dolbear researched electrical spark conversion into sound waves and electrical impulses. Pic.
||Amos Emerson Dolbear (b. November 10, 1837) was an American physicist and inventor. Dolbear researched electrical spark conversion into sound waves and electrical impulses. Pic.
||Gideon Mantell (d. 10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Pic.


||1887 – Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer and academic (d. 1973)
||1887 – Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer and academic (d. 1973)

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  • 1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

    1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

  • 1829: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.

    1829: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.

  • 1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

    1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

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