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21 Sep 1576
Gerolamo Cardano |
death Gerolamo Cardano Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician and physician (born 1501) |
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21 Sep 1645
Louis Jolliet |
birth Louis Jolliet Louis Jolliet, French Canadian explorer (died 1700) |
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21 Sep 1756
John Loudon McAdam |
birth John Loudon McAdam John Loudon McAdam, Scottish highway engineer (died 1836) |
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21 Sep 1866
H. G. Wells |
birth H. G. Wells H. G. Wells (died 1946), scientific populariser |
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21 Sep 1886
William Stanley, Jr. |
William Stanley, Jr. (technology) William Stanley, Jr. patents the induction coil in the United States, the first practical alternating current transformer device. |
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21 Sep 1940
American Bantam |
American Bantam (technology) American Bantam deliver the first prototype BRC Quarter-Ton General Purpose Vehicle – the four-wheel drive Jeep, designed by Karl Probst. |
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21 Sep 1950
Arthur Milne |
death Arthur Milne Arthur Milne (born 1896), British space physicist |
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21 Sep 2002
Robert Lull Forward |
death Robert Lull Forward Robert Lull Forward (b. 1932), science fiction author and physicist. |
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