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||1938: Ettore Majorana disappears ... theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On March 25, 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. Pic.
||1938: Ettore Majorana disappears ... theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. On March 25, 1938, he disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him. Pic.
||1939: Carl Richard Nyberg dies ... inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch. Pic.


||1940: Jean David Ichbiah born ... computer scientist and the initial chief designer (1977–1983) of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. Pic.
||1940: Jean David Ichbiah born ... computer scientist and the initial chief designer (1977–1983) of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. Pic.

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  • 1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

    1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

  • 1773: Physician, engineer, and APTO field engineer John Mudge publishes his landmark study Directions for making the best Computation for the Gnomon algorithm for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the Scrying Engine the true Parabolic Curve.

    1773: Physician, engineer, and APTO field engineer John Mudge publishes his landmark study Directions for making the best Computation for the Gnomon algorithm for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the Scrying Engine the true Parabolic Curve.

  • 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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

  • 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.

    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.

    1927: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture on numbered cake algorithms.

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