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File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1816: The British Admiralty dismisses [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]]'s new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore. | File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1816: The British Admiralty dismisses [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]]'s new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore. | ||
||1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008. | ||1888 – Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008. | ||
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File:LED_Traffic_Light.jpg|link=Traffic light (nonfiction)|1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric [[Traffic light (nonfiction)|traffic light]] is installed. | File:LED_Traffic_Light.jpg|link=Traffic light (nonfiction)|1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric [[Traffic light (nonfiction)|traffic light]] is installed. | ||
File: | File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1822: Statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] publishes his monumental study of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Rule 90 trees.svg|link=Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|1921: New version of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family tree]] powered by [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]]. | File:Rule 90 trees.svg|link=Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|1921: New version of [[Bernoulli family (nonfiction)|Bernoulli family tree]] powered by [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]]. | ||
File:George Tooker.jpg|link=George Tooker (nonfiction)|1920: Artist [[George Tooker (nonfiction)|George Tooker]] born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality. | |||
||1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping. | ||1926 – Harry Houdini performs his greatest feat, spending 91 minutes underwater in a sealed tank before escaping. | ||
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1816: The British Admiralty dismisses Francis Ronalds's new invention of the first working electric telegraph as "wholly unnecessary", preferring to continue using the semaphore.
1914: In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
1822: Statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton publishes his monumental study of crimes against mathematical constants.
1921: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.
1920: Artist George Tooker born. His paintings will depict his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images will use flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.