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File:Isaac Barrow.jpg|link=Isaac Barrow (nonfiction)|1666: Mathematician, theologian, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Isaac Barrow (nonfiction)|Isaac Barrow]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which anticipate the application of infinitesimal calculus in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Isaac Barrow.jpg|link=Isaac Barrow (nonfiction)|1666: Mathematician, theologian, and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Isaac Barrow (nonfiction)|Isaac Barrow]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions which anticipate the application of infinitesimal calculus in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1695: Henri Pitot born ... physicist and engineer, invented the Pitot tube. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=henri+pitot
||1695: Henri Pitot born ... physicist and engineer, invented the Pitot tube. Pic search.


||1764: Francesco Algarotti dies ... polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was "one of the first Esprits cavaliers of the age,"[citation needed] a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and music and a friend of most of the leading authors of his times
||1764: Francesco Algarotti dies ... polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was "one of the first Esprits cavaliers of the age,"[citation needed] a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and music and a friend of most of the leading authors of his times
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||1874: Vagn Walfrid Ekman born ... oceanographer and academic ... icebergs tend to drift not in the direction of the prevailing wind but at an angle of 20°-40° to the right. Bjerknes invited Ekman, still a student, to investigate the problem. Later, in 1905, Ekman published his theory of the Ekman spiral which explains the phenomenon in terms of the balance between frictional effects in the ocean and the Coriolis force, which arises from moving objects in a rotating environment, like planetary rotation. Pic.
||1874: Vagn Walfrid Ekman born ... oceanographer and academic ... icebergs tend to drift not in the direction of the prevailing wind but at an angle of 20°-40° to the right. Bjerknes invited Ekman, still a student, to investigate the problem. Later, in 1905, Ekman published his theory of the Ekman spiral which explains the phenomenon in terms of the balance between frictional effects in the ocean and the Coriolis force, which arises from moving objects in a rotating environment, like planetary rotation. Pic.


File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1890: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] uses radio waves to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1892: George Paget Thomson born ... physicist and academic ... discovered of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Pic.
 
||1892: George Paget Thomson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1901: The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
||1901: The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.

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