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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:Clock Head (da Vinci version).jpg|link=Clock Head|1851: Mechanical soldier [[Clock Head]] co-founds the town of [[Periphery (town)|Periphery]]. | |||
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. | 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. | ||
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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.
1851: Mechanical soldier Clock Head co-founds the town of Periphery.
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.
1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.