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||1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)
||1871 – Charles Babbage, English mathematician and engineer, invented the mechanical computer (b. 1791)


||1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808) - voice-communication apparatus
||1889 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (b. 1808) - voice-communication apparatus Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo meˈuttʃi]; 13 April 1808 – 18 October 1889) was an Italian inventor and an associate of Giuseppe Garibaldi.[1][2] Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.


||1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (d. 1980)
||1902 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist and theorist (d. 1980)

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