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1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter Niles Cartouchian (1900s) accuses rival gem detective Egon Rhodomunde of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.
2002: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses actor-crytographer Niles Cartouchian of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral Rings 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.

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 ||1885: Alfréd Haar born ... mathematician. The Haar measure, Haar wavelet, and Haar transform are named in his honor. Pic.
+||1887: Patent #371,496 issued for the "comptometer," the first adding machine "absolutely accurate at all times." It was invented by Dorr Eugene Felt of Chicago; a model was constructed in 1884.
 File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.