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||1757: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle born ... author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment. Pic. | ||1757: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle born ... author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment. Pic. | ||
||1793: Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. | ||1793: Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. Pic. | ||
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] dies. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. | File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] dies. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. | ||
||1816: Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. | ||1816: Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. Pic. | ||
||1839: The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. | ||1839: The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. | ||
||1843: William Hedley dies ... engineer. | ||1843: William Hedley dies ... engineer. One of the leading industrial engineers of the early 19th century, and was instrumental in several major innovations in early railway development. He built the first practical steam locomotive which relied simply on the adhesion of iron wheels on iron rails. Pic. | ||
File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1848: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] dies. She discovered several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. | File:Caroline_Herschel_1829.jpg|link=Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|1848: Astronomer [[Caroline Herschel (nonfiction)|Caroline Herschel]] dies. She discovered several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name. | ||
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||1958: Willis Rodney Whitney dies ... chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company. Pic. | ||1958: Willis Rodney Whitney dies ... chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company. Pic. | ||
||1963: Enea Bossi, Sr. dies ... engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante. Pic. | |||
||1972: Gottlob "Espe" Espenlaub born ... inventor who specialized in early types of aircraft, specifically gliders and rocket propulsion systems designed for them. He invented a number of different aircraft, focusing on tailless designs. Pic. | ||1972: Gottlob "Espe" Espenlaub born ... inventor who specialized in early types of aircraft, specifically gliders and rocket propulsion systems designed for them. He invented a number of different aircraft, focusing on tailless designs. Pic. | ||
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1799: Mathematician, philosopher, theologian, and humanitarian Maria Gaetana Agnesi dies. She is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.
1848: Astronomer Caroline Herschel dies. She discovered several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet, which bears her name.
1894: New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts. (Shown here: another telephone exchange circa 1900.)
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1918: Scientist, inventor, and educator Charles-Émile Reynaud dies. He invented the Praxinoscope (an improved zoetrope) and was responsible for the first projected animated films.
1955: Mathematician and criminologist J. H. C. Whitehead publishes a new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1989: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone dies. He contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.
2018: The Museum of Greedy algorithms runs over budget, demands emergency bailout from APTO (Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization).