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File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.  
File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born.  He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.  


||1799 Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, French physicist and engineer (d. 1864)
||1799: Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron born ... French physicist and engineer. Pic.


||1842 – Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and author (d. 1925)
||1842 – Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and author (d. 1925)

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