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||1748: Rev Prof John Playfair born ... Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.  Pic.
||1748: Rev Prof John Playfair born ... Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.  Pic.
||1762: Jeremias Benjamin Richter born ... chemist. He is known for introducing the term stoichiometry. Pic.


||1805: Felice Fontana born ... physicist who discovered the water gas shift reaction in 1780. He is also credited with launching modern toxicology and investigating the human eye.
||1805: Felice Fontana born ... physicist who discovered the water gas shift reaction in 1780. He is also credited with launching modern toxicology and investigating the human eye.
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||1864: William Fogg Osgood born ... mathematician.
||1864: William Fogg Osgood born ... mathematician.


||Carlo Severini (b. 10 March 1872) was an Italian mathematician
||1872: Carlo Severini born ... mathematician.


||Moritz Hermann von Jacobi (d. 10 March 1874) was a German and Russian engineer and physicist born in Potsdam. Jacobi worked mainly in Russia. He furthered progress in galvanoplastics, electric motors, and wire telegraphy.  Pic.
||1874: Moritz Hermann von Jacobi born ... engineer and physicist born in Potsdam. Jacobi worked mainly in Russia. He furthered progress in galvanoplastics, electric motors, and wire telegraphy.  Pic.


|File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1875: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] on development of new data communications protocol.  
|File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1875: [[Havelock]] announces plan to collaborate with [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] on development of new data communications protocol.  
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File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1876: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1876: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."


||1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
||1891: Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.


||Ralph Kronig (b. March 10, 1904) was a German American physicist. He is noted for the discovery of particle spin and for his theory of x-ray absorption spectroscopy.  
||1904: Ralph Kronig born ... physicist. He is noted for the discovery of particle spin and for his theory of x-ray absorption spectroscopy.  


||Boris Vian (b. 10 March 1920) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release.
||1920: Boris Vian born ... polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release.


||1923 – Val Logsdon Fitch, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)
||1923: Val Logsdon Fitch born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015)


File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1936: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] invents an early form of all-electronic [[scrying engine]] which detects and exposes [[transdimensional corporations]].
File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1936: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] invents an early form of all-electronic [[scrying engine]] which detects and exposes [[transdimensional corporations]].


||1942 – Wilbur Scoville, American pharmacist and chemist (b. 1865)
||1942: Wilbur Scoville dies ... pharmacist and chemist.


|File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps modifies [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to power new type of [[scrying engine]] intended to detect and counterattack [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps modifies [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to power new type of [[scrying engine]] intended to detect and counterattack [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

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