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||1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724) | ||1792 – John Smeaton, English engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge (b. 1724) | ||
||Robert Liston (b. 28 October 1794) was a pioneering Scottish surgeon. Liston was noted for his skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. | |||
||1804 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 1849) | ||1804 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (d. 1849) | ||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
Image of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.