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Science on the 12th of June in history

Science

Date	Type	Text
12 Jun 1776 Karl Friedrich Burdach	science	birth Karl Friedrich Burdach Karl Friedrich Burdach, German physiologist (died 1847)	0
12 Jun 1806 John A. Roebling	science	birth John A. Roebling John A. Roebling, German American bridge engineer (died 1869)	0
12 Jun 1817 Karl Drais	science	Karl Drais (technology) German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Laufmaschine), the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim.	0
12 Jun 1822 Edward Banks	science	Edward Banks (awards) Edward Banks knighted, the first such honour for work in civil engineering.	0
12 Jun 1837 Cooke	science	Cooke (technology) Cooke and Wheatstone file their patent for the electrical telegraph in the United Kingdom.	0
12 Jun 1843 David Gill	science	birth David Gill David Gill (died 1914), Scottish astronomer.	0
12 Jun 1878 James Oliver Curwood	science	birth James Oliver Curwood James Oliver Curwood, American novelist and conservationist (died 1927)	0
12 Jun 1885 Fleeming Jenkin	science	death Fleeming Jenkin Fleeming Jenkin (born 1833), English engineer	0
12 Jun 1888 Zygmunt Janiszewski	science	birth Zygmunt Janiszewski Zygmunt Janiszewski (died 1920), mathematician.	0
12 Jun 1955 Redcliffe N. Salaman	science	death Redcliffe N. Salaman Redcliffe N. Salaman (born 1874), English botanist.	0
12 Jun 1979 Human-powered aircraft	science	Human-powered aircraft (technology) Human-powered aircraft Gossamer Albatross, built by an American team led by Paul MacCready and piloted by Bryan Allen, makes a successful crossing of the English Channel to win the second Kremer prize.	0
12 Jun 1982 Karl von Frisch	science	death Karl von Frisch Karl von Frisch (b. 1886), Austrian-born ethologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0

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