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||1787: Louis Daguerre born ... physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype. Pic.
||1787: Louis Daguerre born ... physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype. Pic.
||1821: Johann Jacob Schweppe dies ... watchmaker and amateur scientist who developed the first practical process to manufacture bottled carbonated mineral water, based on a process discovered by Joseph Priestley in 1767.  Pic.


||1830: Adam Weishaupt dies ... philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati. Pic.
||1830: Adam Weishaupt dies ... philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati. Pic.

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  • 1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.

    1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.

  • 1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.

    1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.

  • 1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.

    1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.

  • 1866: Physicist and crime-fighter Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

    1866: Physicist and crime-fighter Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

  • 1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.

    1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.

  • 1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

    1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

  • 2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

    2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.

  • 2018: Steganographic analysis of Cowries reveals "at least three hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2018: Steganographic analysis of Cowries reveals "at least three hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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