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File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1647: [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] uses [[scrying engine]] technology to locate fossils. These will later prove useful in detecting and counteracting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] born. Millikan will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.


File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1868: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] born. He will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] born. Rosen will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.


File:Thomson_tide_calculator.jpg|link=Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|1869: Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] steals [[Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|Thomson tide calculator]] for personal use; Steampunks outraged.
File:Gerald Bull 1964.jpg|link=Gerald  Bull (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer [[Gerald  Bull (nonfiction)|Gerald  Bull]] assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit.
 
File:Nathan Rosen.jpg|link=Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|1909: Physicist [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] born. He will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
 
||1909 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian engineer (?) and author born. There is a quotation by her on the back of the Canadian $20 bill that reads: "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?"
 
File:Tempest prognosticator.jpg|link=Tempest prognosticator (nonfiction)|1910: [[Tempest prognosticator (nonfiction)|Tempest prognosticator]] used to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1929: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] attends birthday party for [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]]. They will later collaborate on ideas which will lead The Eel to construct a portable wormhole generator.
File:Philippe_Flajolet.jpg|link=Philippe Flajolet (nonfiction)|2011: Computer scientist [[Philippe Flajolet (nonfiction)|Philippe Flajolet]] dies. Flajolet contributed to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity.
 
File:Gerald Bull 1964.jpg|link=Gerald  Bull (nonfiction)|1990: Engineer [[Gerald  Bull (nonfiction)|Gerald  Bull]] assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit.


File:Exploded electrolytic capacitor.jpg|link=Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|2001: [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|Capacitor plague]] affects several brands of [[portable envy]] devices.
File:An Alien Home Companion.jpg|link=An Alien Home Companion|2006: Premiere of '''''[[An Alien Home Companion]]''''', an American science fiction comedy film about the behind-the-scenes activities at a long-running public radio show which encounters an aggressive alien guest star. Director: Robert Altman.


File:Portable envy clock generator.jpg|link=Portable envy|2002: [[Portable envy]] components at risk of [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]].
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