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1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
1699: Omar Khayyam publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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 File:Thomas Savery.gif|link=Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|1698: [[Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|Thomas Savery]] patents the first steam engine.  Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
 File:Omar Khayyam.jpg|link=Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|1699: [[Omar Khayyam (nonfiction)|Omar Khayyam]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 File:Jean-Jacques Rousseau.jpg|link=Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|1778: Philosopher and author [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
+||Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS (b. 2 July 1862) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays".
 ||Boris Caesar Wilhelm Hagelin (b. 2 July 1892) was a Swedish businessman and inventor of encryption machines.