Baltimore's own Babe Ruth pitched for the Orioles before being sold to the AL Boston Red Sox in 1914.

In particular, the regenerative circuit, which Armstrong patented in 1914 as a " wireless receiving system ," was subsequently patented by Lee De Forest in 1916 ; De Forest then sold the rights to his patent to AT & T.

* Modern Electrics — 1908 to 1914 ( sold in 1913 ; new owners merged it with Electrician and Mechanic )

First formulated by Dr. Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1879 as surgical antiseptic, it was given to dentists for oral care in 1895 and it was the first over-the-counter mouthwash sold in the United States, in 1914.

Orage met P. D. Ouspensky, a follower of Gurdjieff, in 1914 and began correspondence with Harry Houdini ; he became less interested in literature and art with an increased focus on mysticism and other spiritual topics ; the magazine was sold in 1921.

Tom Swift's adventures have been popular since the character's inception in 1910: by 1914, 150, 000 copies a year were being sold and in a 1929 study found the series to be second in popularity only to the Bible for boys in their early teens.

Royal Navy Stores Duties Instructions, article 447, dated 26 February 1914, specified that flags condemned from further service use were to be torn up into small pieces and disposed of as rags ( ADM 1 / 8369 / 56 ), not to be used for decoration or sold.

Property was sold beginning in 1914 and the city incorporated in 1938.

The first major housing development came in 1914 when the township sold land to the Majestic Land Company to be developed as the Oak Park subdivision.

O ' Shea sold out to Paal in 1914.

Blees Academy was sold, in 1914, to become Still-Hildreth Osteopathic Sanatorium.

The Northern Land and Townsite Company, a division of the Great Northern, platted the town and sold lots in June 1914.

By 1914, the mine was sold to the Union Coal and Coke Company and later to Bethlehem Steel which continued to extract coal until 1988, when the main conveyor caught fire.

English History 1914 – 1945 was an enormous bestseller and in its first year in print sold more than all of the previous volumes of the Oxford History of England combined.

After the 1914 season, the forlorn team was sold to Salt Lake City businessman Bill " Hardpan " Lane, who brought PCL baseball to Utah in the form of the newly-renamed Salt Lake Bees.

She was converted to a training ship and renamed HMS Britannia in 1869, hulked in 1909 and sold in 1914.

Sold to France in 1914, sold to Greece in 1920 and renamed.

Many German nationals living in France had their possessions sequestered by the French state, and as a result, Kahnweiler's collection was confiscated in 1914 and sold by the government in a series of auctions at the Hôtel Drouot between 1921 and 1923.

His children sold Systema by management buy out year 1914.

*, a Mississippi-class battleship, was launched on 9 December 1905 and was sold to Greece on 30 July 1914

Between 1912 and 1914, Lane – one of the earliest female real estate agents in California – and her husband sold farm land in what is now the San Jose / Silicon Valley area of northern California.

He designed Jutland, which Avalon Hill published in 1967, following it up with 1914 the next year, and PanzerBlitz in 1970, which eventually sold most than 300, 000 copies.

* HMS Galatea ( 1914 ) was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched on 14 May 1914 at William Beardmore and Company shipyard and sold 1921.

She was sold for scrap in 1914.

In August 1912, Lee De Forest, the inventor of the audion, had also observed oscillations in his amplifiers, but he didn't understand its significance until he read Armstrong's patents in 1914, which he promptly challenged.

When World War I came in 1914 and German patents were seized in the US, these two companies were left to compete with each other.

Two of Goddard's 214 patents — one for a multi-stage rocket design ( 1914 ), and another for a liquid-fuel rocket design ( 1914 ) — are regarded as important milestones toward spaceflight.

In 1914, his first two landmark patents were accepted and registered.

* James Gilbert Baker ( 1914 – 2005 ), American astronomer and optics expert ; designed U-2 spy plane lenses ; over 50 patents

* 1914: George Westinghouse dies, his life work including 361 patents and the founding of 60 companies.

The Brin brothers negotiated an agreement to use the Linde patents ; which gave Carl von Linde a stake and a board position in Brin's Oxygen Company, which he held until 1914.

Holt bought the patents related to the " chain track " track-type tractor from Richard Hornsby & Sons in 1914 for £ 4, 000.

In 1906 Linde negotiated a stake in Brin's Oxygen Company ( later The BOC Group ) in exchange for rights to Linde's patents in the UK and other countries, and held a board position until 1914.

The Intertype Corporation developed ( c. 1914 ) a modified version of the Linotype machine when the patents ran out and became quite popular as well.

However, in 1914 George Albert Smith sued Friese-Greene for infringing Kinemacolor's patents, slowing the development of Biocolour by Friese-Greene and his son Claude in the 1920s.

She continued to work with both of her inventions, obtaining patents on the canning process in 1903, 1905, and 1906, and additional patents relating to the oil burner in 1904, 1912, and 1914.

While Kayser's patents were filed in 1910 and granted in 1915, with Crisco appearing on the market in 1911, Hugh Moore, chief chemist for the Berlin Mills Company in Berlin, New Hampshire, filed his patents by 1914 and they were granted in 1914 and 1916, with the vegetable shortening later trademarked in 1915 as Kream Krisp appearing on the market in 1914.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

In 1914 when the town was chosen for the U. S. Amateur Golf tournament, a representative hurried here from the Boston manager's office.

Three works Team Cars with 16-valve twin cam engines were built for racing and record breaking: chassis number 1914, later developed as the Green Pea ; chassis number 1915, the Razor Blade record car ; and chassis number 1916, later developed as the Halford Special.

Between 1914 and 1915 talks were held for a proposed amalgamation with rugby league, the predominant code of football in New South Wales and Queensland was considered and trialled.

Examples include Edward Elgar's Great is the Lord ( 1912 ) and Give unto the Lord ( 1914 ) ( both with orchestral accompaniment ), Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb ( 1943 ) ( a modern example of a multi-movement anthem and today heard mainly as a concert piece ), and, on a much smaller scale, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' O taste and see ( 1952 ) ( written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II ).

The slab on top carries the inscription (" Here lies a French soldier who died for the fatherland 1914 – 1918 ").

Nimzowitsch never developed a knack for match play, though ; his best match success was a draw with Alekhine, but the match consisted of only two games and took place in 1914, thirteen years before Alekhine became world champion.

Gropius's design for the Dessau facilities was a return to the futuristic Gropius of 1914 that had more in common with the International style lines of the Fagus Factory than the stripped down Neo-classical of the Werkbund pavilion or the Völkisch Sommerfeld House.

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallant leadership: the citation for this award, published in the London Gazette in December 1914 reads:

* Mathews, L. K. “ Benjamin Franklin ’ s Plans for a Colonial Union, 1750 – 1775 .” American Political Science Review 8 ( August 1914 ): 393 – 412.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

At the start of the First World War, the Currency and Bank Notes Act 1914 was passed which granted temporary powers to HM Treasury for issuing banknotes to the value of £ 1 and 10 /- ( ten shillings ) in the UK.

It was their fear of the spectre of 1914 that emerged victorious in the conflict of goals between armament in breadth for a short war and armament in depth for a feared long war.

In late 1905 Balfour had requested of Charles Dreyfus, his Jewish constituency representative, that he arrange a meeting with Weizmann, during which Weizmann asked for official British support for Zionism ; they were to meet again on this issue in 1914.

Legislation introducing Home Rule, i. e. limited self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom, was passed by the British parliament in 1914, but its implementation was immediately postponed because of the outbreak of the First World War.

Following a Royal Commission report in 1906, work began on a new prayer book, work that was to take twenty years due in part to the demands of the Great War ( 1914 – 18 ) and in part to the constitution of the Church Assembly in 1920 which " perhaps not unnaturally wished to do the work all over again for itself.

A renowned Boer, Jopie Fourie, was executed for treason in 1914.

From the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and from 1918 he was even composing the music for them.

Attlee became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1912, but promptly applied for a Commission in August 1914 for World War I.