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||1995: Lee Albert Rubel dies ... mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics renowned for his contributions to analog computing. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lee+Albert+Rubel
||1995: Lee Albert Rubel dies ... mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics renowned for his contributions to analog computing. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lee+Albert+Rubel
||1914: John Hugenholtz dies ... engineer and designer of racetracks and cars. Pic.


||1995: Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry dies ... chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant. He represented England in chess both before and after World War II. He worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, and was head of "Hut 6", a section responsible for deciphering messages which had been encrypted using the German Enigma machine. Pic.
||1995: Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry dies ... chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant. He represented England in chess both before and after World War II. He worked at Bletchley Park during World War II, and was head of "Hut 6", a section responsible for deciphering messages which had been encrypted using the German Enigma machine. 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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