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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.
1924: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan uses the measurement of the elementary electronic charge to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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.

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 ||1538 – Christopher Clavius, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1612)
-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: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:Christiaan Huygens.jpg|link=Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|1655: Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by [[Christiaan Huygens (nonfiction)|Christiaan Huygens]].