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||1769: André-Jacques Garnerin born ... balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. Pic.
||1769: André-Jacques Garnerin born ... balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute. Pic.
||1836: John Cheyne dies ...  physician and author. He was one of the first to identify Cheyne–Stokes respiration. Pic.


||1839: Fox Talbot read a paper before the Royal Society, London, to describe his photographic process using solar light, with an exposure time of about 20 minutes: Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing or the Process by which Natural Objects may be made to Delineate Themselves without the Aid of the Artist's Pencil.  Pic.
||1839: Fox Talbot read a paper before the Royal Society, London, to describe his photographic process using solar light, with an exposure time of about 20 minutes: Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing or the Process by which Natural Objects may be made to Delineate Themselves without the Aid of the Artist's Pencil.  Pic.

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