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File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1904: Outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]] linked to last year's release of ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]''.
File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1904: Outbreak of [[Scrimshaw abuse]] linked to last year's release of ''[[Electrocuting an Elephant (nonfiction)|Electrocuting an Elephant]]''.
||1905: Dattathreya Ramchandra Kaprekar born ... recreational mathematician who described several classes of natural numbers including the Kaprekar, Harshad and Self numbers and discovered the Kaprekar constant, named after him.  Pic.


||Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (d. 17 January 1910) was a German physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to knowledge of their behavior. He also investigated elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as magnetic and electrical precision measurements.
||Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (d. 17 January 1910) was a German physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to knowledge of their behavior. He also investigated elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as magnetic and electrical precision measurements.

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