Template:Selected anniversaries/May 14

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  1888: New form of Brownian ratchet discovered.

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  1888: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to seize control of Brownian racket.

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  1889: Canterbury scrying engine generates new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

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  1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.

1679 – Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1764)

1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1782)

1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1903)

1863 – John Charles Fields, Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (d. 1932)

1761 – Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710)

1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810)

1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.