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1636: Astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks uses Numbered cake algorithm (NCA) to pre-visualize the transit of Venus.
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.
1927: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture on numbered cake algorithms.
1954: Numbered cake algorithm used to build new type of scrying engine.
1964: The Hal Jordan Playbook spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.

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 File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1636: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Numbered cake algorithm]] (NCA) to pre-visualize the transit of Venus.
-File:Edward Davy.jpg|link=Edward Davy (nonfiction)|1885:  Physician, scientist, and inventor [[Edward Davy (nonfiction)|Edward Davy]] dies. He  played a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invented an electric relay.
 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_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1927: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture on [[numbered cake algorithms]].