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File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] uses [[scrying engine]] technology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] uses [[scrying engine]] technology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1764: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to prevent outbreak of  [[Kingpin inclination]].
 
File:John Stuart Mill circa 1870.jpg|link=John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|1806: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher [[John Stuart Mill (nonfiction)|John Stuart Mill]] born. He will be one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.
 
File:Winfried Otto Schumann.jpg|link=Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|1888: Physicist [[Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|Winfried Otto Schumann]] born. He will predict the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.
File:Winfried Otto Schumann.jpg|link=Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|1888: Physicist [[Winfried Otto Schumann (nonfiction)|Winfried Otto Schumann]] born. He will predict the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.
File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1966: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
 
File:Kinetoscope.jpg|File=Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|1891: History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype [[Kinetoscope (nonfiction)|kinetoscope]].
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  • 1561: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen uses scrying engine technology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1561: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen uses scrying engine technology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1806: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill born. He will be one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

    1806: Economist, civil servant, and philosopher John Stuart Mill born. He will be one of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, and the first Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage.

  • 1888: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann born. He will predict the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.

    1888: Physicist Winfried Otto Schumann born. He will predict the existence of Schumann resonances, a series of low-frequency resonances caused by lightning discharges in the atmosphere.

  • 1891: History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

    1891: History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

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