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||1775 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715) - anti Liebniz | ||1775 – Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715) - anti Liebniz | ||
||Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (b. 18 October 1847) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Pic. | |||
||1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London. | ||1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London. | ||
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1791: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.