Template:Selected anniversaries/August 14
1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.
1843: Artist Eugène Delacroix publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on his study of the optical effects of color. He will soon use these functions to detect and prevent art-related crimes against mathematical constants.
1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1889: Signed first edition of The Eel and Radium Jane Arm Wrestling sells for eighty thousand dollars (US) at charity benefit auction in Periphery.
1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and made precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.