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||1771: Éleuthère Irénée du Pont born ... chemist and businessman, founded DuPont. Pic. | ||1771: Éleuthère Irénée du Pont born ... chemist and businessman, founded DuPont. Pic. | ||
||1774: François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo born ... general and engineer. | ||1774: François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo born ... French Army general and military engineer during the French Revolution and First Empire. Pic. | ||
||1788: Thomas Blanchard born ... inventor ... pioneered the assembly line style of mass production in America, and also invented the major technological innovation known as interchangeable parts. Blanchard worked, for much of his career, with the Springfield Armory. In 1825, Blanchard also invented America's first car, which he called a "horseless carriage," powered by steam. Pic. | ||1788: Thomas Blanchard born ... inventor ... pioneered the assembly line style of mass production in America, and also invented the major technological innovation known as interchangeable parts. Blanchard worked, for much of his career, with the Springfield Armory. In 1825, Blanchard also invented America's first car, which he called a "horseless carriage," powered by steam. Pic. | ||
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||1916: Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract. | ||1916: Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract. | ||
||1917: Joan Clarke born ... cryptanalyst and numismatist. | ||1917: Joan Clarke born ... cryptanalyst and numismatist. Pic. | ||
||1918: First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. | ||1918: First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. | ||
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1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Battista Riccioli publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in detecting and preventing crimes against astronomical constants.
1709: Public test of Bartolomeu de Gusmão's airship fails to take place.
1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."
2016: Steganographic analysis of Boxes unexpectedly reveals previously unknown type of cryptographic numen. APTO's department of Gnomon algorithm research calls it "a remarkable breakthrough."