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File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1592: Philosopher and author [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]] dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. | File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1592: Philosopher and author [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]] dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. | ||
|| | ||Oliver Evans (b. September 13, 1755) was an American inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam (vs. low pressure steam). A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. Pic. | ||
||Wilhelm Joseph Grailich (d. 13 September 1859, in Vienna) was an Austrian physicist, mineralogist and crystallographer. | ||Wilhelm Joseph Grailich (d. 13 September 1859, in Vienna) was an Austrian physicist, mineralogist and crystallographer. No pic. | ||
|| Mathematician Dmitry Semionovitch Mirimanoff (b. 13 September 1861) born. | || Mathematician Dmitry Semionovitch Mirimanoff (b. 13 September 1861) born. No pic. | ||
File:Constantin Carathéodory.jpg|link=Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|1873: Mathematician and author [[Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|Constantin Carathéodory]] born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach. | File:Constantin Carathéodory.jpg|link=Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|1873: Mathematician and author [[Constantin Carathéodory (nonfiction)|Constantin Carathéodory]] born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach. | ||
||1885 – Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1962) | ||1885 – Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1962). Pic. | ||
||1886 – Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) | ||1886 – Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) | ||
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1592: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1873: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
1898: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1900: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess shames math criminals into returning stolen digits, paying compensation for lost computational power, and personally apologizing to everyone who was inconvenienced by this sorry episode of bad behavior, which will never be repeated.
2014: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."