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File:Maurice d'Ocagne.jpg|link=Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician and engineer [[Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne]] born. He will found the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he will called nomograms. | File:Maurice d'Ocagne.jpg|link=Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|1862: Mathematician and engineer [[Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne]] born. He will found the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he will called nomograms. | ||
File:No prison can hold me, not even the Nacreum - the Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|1923: Art critic and alleged time-traveler '''[[The Eel]]''' escapes from the Nacreum, a transdimensional prison made of artificially intelligent, self-assembling nacre. | |||
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations. | ||
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1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1857: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is receives a patent for the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
1860: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid dies. He was an important and influential pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy.
1862: Mathematician and engineer Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne born. He will found the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he will called nomograms.
1923: Art critic and alleged time-traveler The Eel escapes from the Nacreum, a transdimensional prison made of artificially intelligent, self-assembling nacre.
1925: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in the first of a three-week series of demonstrations.