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Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1924: Hilbert curve and Jan Kochanowski share research data, discover new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

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-– Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
-– Sir Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
-– The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
-– New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
-– Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
-– Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1926)
-– Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (d. 2004)
-– Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1688)
-– Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1718)
-– Charles-Émile Reynaud, French scientist and educator, invented the Praxinoscope (b. 1844)