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11 Feb 1617
Giovanni Antonio Magini |
death Giovanni Antonio Magini Giovanni Antonio Magini, Italian astronomer (born 1555). |
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11 Feb 1626
Pietro Cataldi |
death Pietro Cataldi Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (born 1548) |
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11 Feb 1650
René Descartes |
death René Descartes René Descartes, French mathematician (born 1596) |
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11 Feb 1657
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle |
birth Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientific populariser (died 1757) |
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11 Feb 1706
Nils Rosén von Rosenstein |
birth Nils Rosén von Rosenstein Nils Rosén von Rosenstein, Swedish pediatrician (died 1773) |
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11 Feb 1800
H. Fox Talbot |
birth H. Fox Talbot H. Fox Talbot, English pioneer of photography (died 1877) |
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11 Feb 1808
Anthracite |
Anthracite (technology) Anthracite coal is first burned as fuel by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; the discovery leads to the use of coal as a key fuel source of the industrial revolution in the United States. |
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11 Feb 1809
Robert Fulton |
Robert Fulton (technology) Robert Fulton patents the steamboat in the United States. |
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11 Feb 1812
Massachusetts |
Massachusetts (mathematics, statist) Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry invents gerrymandering. |
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11 Feb 1847
Thomas Edison |
birth Thomas Edison Thomas Edison, American inventor (died 1931) |
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11 Feb 1862
Luther V. Bell |
death Luther V. Bell Luther V. Bell (born 1806), American psychiatric physician |
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11 Feb 1868
Léon Foucault |
death Léon Foucault Léon Foucault (born 1819), physicist. |
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11 Feb 1873
Louis Charles Christopher Krieger |
birth Louis Charles Christopher Krieger Louis Charles Christopher Krieger (died 1940), American mycologist |
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11 Feb 1878
United Kingdom |
United Kingdom (meteorology) The first weekly weather report is published in the United Kingdom. |
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11 Feb 1893
János Csonka |
János Csonka (technology) János Csonka and Donát Bánki apply for a patent for the carburetor in Hungary. |
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11 Feb 1894
Izaak Kolthoff |
birth Izaak Kolthoff Izaak Kolthoff (died 1993), Dutch 'father of analytical chemistry'. |
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11 Feb 1898
Leó Szilárd |
birth Leó Szilárd Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-American physicist (d. 1964) |
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11 Feb 1901
Henry Willis |
death Henry Willis Henry Willis (born 1821), English organ builder. |
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11 Feb 1908
Vivian Fuchs |
birth Vivian Fuchs Vivian Fuchs (died 1999), English geologist and explorer. |
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11 Feb 1917
Laura Forster |
death Laura Forster Laura Forster (born 1858), Australian physician, died on war service. |
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11 Feb 1924
Jacques Loeb |
death Jacques Loeb Jacques Loeb, German-born physiologist (born 1859) |
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11 Feb 1931
Sir Charles Parsons |
death Sir Charles Parsons Sir Charles Parsons (born 1854), British inventor of the steam turbine. |
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11 Feb 1958
solar maximum |
solar maximum (astronomy and space ) The strongest ever known solar maximum is recorded. |
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11 Feb 1958
Ernest Jones |
death Ernest Jones Ernest Jones (born 1879), Welsh psychoanalyst |
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11 Feb 1970
Japan |
Japan (astronomy and space ) Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit. |
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11 Feb 1973
J. Hans D. Jensen |
death J. Hans D. Jensen J. Hans D. Jensen (b. 1907), German nuclear physicist |
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11 Feb 1993
Robert W. Holley |
death Robert W. Holley Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1922) |
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