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Science on the 24th of February in history

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Date	Type	Text
24 Feb 1588 Johann Weyer	science	death Johann Weyer Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist (born 1515)	0
24 Feb 1664 Thomas Newcomen	science	birth Thomas Newcomen Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (died 1729)	0
24 Feb 1697 Bernhard Siegfried Weiss	science	birth Bernhard Siegfried Weiss Bernhard Siegfried Weiss, later known as Albinus, German-born Dutch anatomist (died 1770)	0
24 Feb 1709 Jacques de Vaucanson	science	birth Jacques de Vaucanson Jacques de Vaucanson, French engineer and inventor (died 1782)	0
24 Feb 1810 Henry Cavendish	science	death Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish, English physicist and chemist (born 1731).	0
24 Feb 1812 Étienne-Louis Malus	science	death Étienne-Louis Malus Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist (born 1775)	0
24 Feb 1815 Robert Fulton	science	death Robert Fulton Robert Fulton, American engineer (born 1765)	0
24 Feb 1839 William Otis	science	William Otis (technology) William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.	0
24 Feb 1841 Carl Gräbe	science	birth Carl Gräbe Carl Gräbe, (died 1927) chemist.	0
24 Feb 1868 John Herapath	science	death John Herapath John Herapath (born 1790), physicist.	0
24 Feb 1923 Edward Morley	science	death Edward Morley Edward Morley (born 1838), chemist.	0
24 Feb 1955 Steve Jobs	science	birth Steve Jobs Steve Jobs (died 2011), American computing entrepreneur.	0
24 Feb 1967 Brian Schmidt	science	birth Brian Schmidt Brian Schmidt, Australian winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics (2011).	0
24 Feb 2001 Claude Shannon	science	death Claude Shannon Claude Shannon (b. 1916), American mathematician.	0

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