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Science on the 18th of November in history

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Date	Type	Text
18 Nov 1691 Mårten Triewald	science	birth Mårten Triewald Mårten Triewald, Swedish mechanical engineer (died 1747)	0
18 Nov 1750 Westminster Bridge	science	Westminster Bridge (technology) Westminster Bridge across the River Thames in London, designed by the Swiss-born engineer Charles Labelye, is officially opened.	0
18 Nov 1787 Louis Daguerre	science	birth Louis Daguerre Louis Daguerre (died 1851), French inventor.	0
18 Nov 1814 William Jessop	science	death William Jessop William Jessop, English civil engineer (born 1745).	0
18 Nov 1821 Franz Brünnow	science	birth Franz Brünnow Franz Brünnow (died 1891), German astronomer.	0
18 Nov 1837 William Crompton	science	William Crompton (technology) William Crompton patents the cotton power loom in the United States.	0
18 Nov 1854 Edward Forbes	science	death Edward Forbes Edward Forbes (born 1815), naturalist	0
18 Nov 1887 Gustav Fechner	science	death Gustav Fechner Gustav Fechner (born 1801), German psychologist.	0
18 Nov 1891 Joseph Wolstenholme	science	death Joseph Wolstenholme Joseph Wolstenholme (born 1829), mathematician.	0
18 Nov 1906 George Wald	science	birth George Wald George Wald (died 1997), scientist.	0
18 Nov 1923 Alan Shepard	science	birth Alan Shepard Alan Shepard (died 1998), American astronaut.	0
18 Nov 1929 Grand Banks earthquake	science	Grand Banks earthquake (earth sciences) Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula area.	0
18 Nov 1939 John O'Keefe	science	birth John O'Keefe John O'Keefe, American-born British neuroscientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.	0
18 Nov 1941 Walther Nernst	science	death Walther Nernst Walther Nernst (born 1864), German physical chemist.	0
18 Nov 1962 Niels Bohr	science	death Niels Bohr Niels Bohr (born 1885), Danish physicist.	0
18 Nov 2004 Robert Bacher	science	death Robert Bacher Robert Bacher (b. 1905), nuclear physicist and one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project, Professor and Provost of the California Institute of Technology.	0

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