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||1596: Leonhard Rauwolf dies ... physician and botanist. Pic: book cover.


File:Jean Sylvain Bailly.jpg|link=Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician [[Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|Jean Sylvain Bailly]] born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community.
File:Jean Sylvain Bailly.jpg|link=Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician [[Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)|Jean Sylvain Bailly]] born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community.
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||1852: Jan Ernest Matzeliger born ... inventor who is best known for his shoe-lasting machine that revolutionished the shoe industry by replacing the hand work of attaching the sole to the upper of a shoe. He left his homeland of Dutch Guiana and sailed for America at age 19. He settled in Lynn, Massachussetts, by about age 25, where he became a shoe stitching machine operator. There he saw the tedious and slow process of finishing the shoe by hand, and resolved to develop a machine able to do that job more efficiently. Despite being so poor that obtaining materials was difficult, he made a wooden model. He obtained a patent for his invention, issued on 20 Mar 1883. With improvements, by 1885, he had a production model ready, able to produce shoes far more rapidly than hand workers. He died of tuberculosis at the early age of not yet 37. Pic.
||1852: Jan Ernest Matzeliger born ... inventor who is best known for his shoe-lasting machine that revolutionished the shoe industry by replacing the hand work of attaching the sole to the upper of a shoe. He left his homeland of Dutch Guiana and sailed for America at age 19. He settled in Lynn, Massachussetts, by about age 25, where he became a shoe stitching machine operator. There he saw the tedious and slow process of finishing the shoe by hand, and resolved to develop a machine able to do that job more efficiently. Despite being so poor that obtaining materials was difficult, he made a wooden model. He obtained a patent for his invention, issued on 20 Mar 1883. With improvements, by 1885, he had a production model ready, able to produce shoes far more rapidly than hand workers. He died of tuberculosis at the early age of not yet 37. Pic.


||1854: Traugott Sandmeyer (September 15, 1854 – April 9, 1922) was a Swiss chemist after whom the Sandmeyer reaction, which he discovered 1884, was named. Sandmeyer also invented a new synthesis for indigo. Pic.
||1854: Traugott Sandmeyer born ... chemist after whom the Sandmeyer reaction, which he discovered 1884, was named. Sandmeyer also invented a new synthesis for indigo. Pic.


||1857: Anna Winlock born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=anna+winlock
||1857: Anna Winlock born ... astronomer and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=anna+winlock
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||1883: Joseph Plateau dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
||1883: Joseph Plateau dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1883: Esteban Terrades i Illa born ... mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences.
||1883: Esteban Terradas i Illa born ... mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=esteban+terradas+i+illa


||1886: Paul Lévy born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
||1886: Paul Lévy born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.

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