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1599: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel advises Dutch navy to "attack Neptune Slaughter on sight."
1619: Physician and philosopher Lucilio Vanini dies. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão uses primitive Brownian ratchet to design improved airship.
1737: Thomas Paine born. He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
1984: Advances in Time travel technology generate improved Brownian ratchets.
1985: New form of Brownian ratchet discovered.
1973: First test of Antikythera Team's self-assembling Brownian ratchets.

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 File:Cornelius Drebbel.jpg|link=Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|1599: Submarine inventor [[Cornelius Drebbel (nonfiction)|Cornelius Drebbel]] advises Dutch navy to "attack [[Neptune Slaughter]] on sight."
+File:Giulio Cesare Vanini.jpg|link=Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|1619: Physician and philosopher [[Lucilio Vanini (nonfiction)|Lucilio Vanini]] dies. He was the first literate proponent of the thesis that humans evolved from apes.
 File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] uses primitive [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]].
 File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1737: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] born.  He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.