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File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1901: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel chamber]] publishes autobiography. | File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1901: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel chamber]] publishes autobiography. | ||
File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1932: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1932: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | ||
File:Deep Impact.png|link=Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2005: [[Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Deep Impact]] launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. | File:Deep Impact.png|link=Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2005: [[Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Deep Impact]] launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface. | ||
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1665: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown.
1876: Author Jack London born. He will become one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1877: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to perform scrying engine functions.
1901: Time travel chamber publishes autobiography.
1932: Neon lighting says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting electricity into light.
2005: Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface.