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Events
- On Earth, some core concepts of nanotechnology are discussed by the physicist Richard Feynman in his talk "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" -- though the term, spelled as "nano-technology", is not used until 1974 by Norio Taniguchi, and spelled "nanotechnology" by K. Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation: The Coming Age of Technology.
- Milestones in this field happen in different years in different timelines.
- Richard Daniels is sent on a mission from 3109 to this year to the town of Clear Lake, Iowa in the United States of America on Earth, in order to assure the deaths of three rock and roll musicians. (Times of the HG Wells: A Long, Long Time Ago)