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File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1709: Public test of [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s airship fails to take place. | File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1709: Public test of [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s airship fails to take place. | ||
||Olof Celsius (the elder) (d. 24 June 1756) was a Swedish botanist, philologist and clergyman, He was a professor at Uppsala University, Sweden. Celsius was a mentor of the botanist and scientist Carl Linnaeus. Celsius wrote his most famous book on biblical plants, Hierobotanicos, in 1745-47. Pic. | |||
||1771 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont (d. 1834) | ||1771 – Éleuthère Irénée du Pont, French chemist and businessman, founded DuPont (d. 1834) | ||
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1709: Public test of Bartolomeu de Gusmão's airship fails to take place.
1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."