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||1836 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (b. 1785) | ||1836 – Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist and engineer (b. 1785) | ||
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1872: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | }File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|1872: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]]. | ||
||1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs. | ||1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs. | ||
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||1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee. | ||1911 – The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee. | ||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1944: [[Extract of Radium]] distributor and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] programs the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory to fatally irradiate physicist and crime-fighter [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]]. | |||
File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | ||
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1660: Mathematician and engineer Hubert Gautier born. Gautier will write several published works on engineering, civil engineering and geology.
1944: Extract of Radium distributor and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung programs the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory to fatally irradiate physicist and crime-fighter Harry Daghlian.
1945: Physicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945: The Custodian stops Baron Zersetzung from stealing the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.