Template:Selected anniversaries/August 22

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  1647: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin born. He will invent the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.

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  1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.

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  1919: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants based on the states of gases and liquids.

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  1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".

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  1943: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC traded for freshly minted 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt dime.

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  1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.