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||1810 – George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet (d. 1882) | ||1810 – George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet (d. 1882) | ||
||Elwin Bruno Christoffel (b. November 10, 1829) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity. | |||
||1887 – Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer and academic (d. 1973) | ||1887 – Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer and academic (d. 1973) | ||
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1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.