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||1877: Alexander Bain dies ... clockmaker, engineer, and inventor who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. Pic.
||1877: Alexander Bain dies ... clockmaker, engineer, and inventor who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. Pic.
||1889: Roger Adams born ... organic chemist. He is best known for the eponymous Adams' catalyst, and his work did much to determine the composition of naturally occurring substances such as complex vegetable oils and plant alkaloids.  Pic.


File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] dies. His achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|George Biddell Airy]] dies. His achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.

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