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||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley buried. Pic search French wiki: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathaniel+Torporley
||1605: Clergyman, mathematician, and astrologer Nathaniel Torporley buried. Pic search French wiki: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathaniel+Torporley


||1774: Friedrich Gottlob Koenig born ... inventor best known for his high-speed steam-powered printing press, which he built together with watchmaker Andreas Friedrich Bauer. This new style of printing press could print up to 1,100 sheets per hour, printing on both sides of the paper at the same time.
||1774: Friedrich Koenig born ... inventor best known for his high-speed steam-powered printing press, which he built together with watchmaker Andreas Friedrich Bauer. This new style of printing press could print up to 1,100 sheets per hour, printing on both sides of the paper at the same time. Pic.


File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1781: Physicist [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] invents an electrophorus which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to calculate the latent heat of ice.
File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1781: Physicist [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] invents an electrophorus which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to calculate the latent heat of ice.


||1790: Benjamin Franklin dies ... inventor, publisher, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania.
||1790: Benjamin Franklin dies ... inventor, publisher, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania. Pic.


||1798: Étienne Bobillier born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Étienne+Bobillier
||1798: Étienne Bobillier born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Étienne+Bobillier

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