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||1797: André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris. | ||1797: André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris. | ||
||1811: Alexander Bain born ... clockmaker, engineerm and inventor who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. Pic. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out). | ||
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1659: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl born. His works on phlogiston will be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1904: Illustration of The Eel fighting Neptune Slaughter awarded Pulitzer Award for Best Investigative Reporting.
1905: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
1927: Physicist, engineer, and inventor Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.
2005: The Venus Express detects evidence of electrical artificial intelligence AESOP in orbit around the planet Venus.