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1848: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster invents new type of scrying engine.
1931: Neon lighting says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting electricity into light.

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 File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1931: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
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-– Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1940)
-– Werner Fenchel, German-Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1988)
-– Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001)
-– John Winthrop, American mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1714)
-– Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1908)
-– The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
-– A total solar eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy.