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||1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (d. 1914) | ||1846 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman, founded the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (d. 1914) | ||
File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1866: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] born. He will | File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1866: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. | ||
||1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. | ||1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture. | ||
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1831: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind born. He will make important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1866: Inventor Reginald Fessenden born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.