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File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1809: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] uses [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] to power new type of [[scrying engine]].
File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1809: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] uses [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] to power new type of [[scrying engine]].
||1832: Octave Chanute born ... civil engineer and aviation pioneer, born in France. He provided many budding enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers, with help and advice, and helped to publicize their flying experiments. At his death he was hailed as the father of aviation and the heavier-than-air flying machine. Pic.


||1838: Ernst Mach born ... physicist and philosopher.
||1838: Ernst Mach born ... physicist and philosopher.

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