* 1916 PRR adopts new motto, " Standard Railroad of the World ".

Swengel suggested the 2-10-0 arrangement was ' obsolete ' by 1916, when the Pennsylvania Railroad ( PRR ) commenced an experiment with a 2-10-0 locomotive at its Juniata plant.

Swengel argued this commitment to the 2-10-0, nicknamed " Deks ", was controversial even in 1916 and was more so in 1922 when the PRR placed additional orders.

The sword carried by the Republic in the Marseillaise relief broke off on the day, it is said, that the Battle of Verdun began in 1916.

On the basis of McMahon's assurances the Arab Revolt began on 5 June 1916.

It began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, spreading to Berlin shortly thereafter.

William Everdell, for example, has argued that modernism began in the 1870s, when metaphorical ( or ontological ) continuity began to yield to the discrete with mathematician Richard Dedekind's ( 1831 – 1916 ) Dedekind cut, and Ludwig Boltzmann's ( 1844 – 1906 ) statistical thermodynamics.

The Vacuum Oil Company began operating in Australia in 1895, introducing its Plume brand of petrol in 1916.

It also appears in Lost Laysen, the novella Mitchell wrote as a teenager in 1916, and in Mitchell's last known novel, Gone with the Wind, which she began writing in 1926.

By 1916, Flaherty had enough footage that he began test screenings and was met with wide enthusiasm.

Also in December 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion.

Bush accepted a job with Tufts, where he became involved with the American Radio and Research Corporation ( AMRAD ), which began broadcasting music from the campus on March 8, 1916.

The Brookings Institution began in Washington in 1916.

In 1911, the choir and the crossing were opened, and the foundation for Cram's nave began to be excavated in 1916.

Holst became an occasional organist and choir master at Thaxted Parish Church and began an annual music festival at Whitsuntide in 1916, at which students from Morley College and St Paul's School performed.

Because of this delay, the battle began at 07: 15 on 21 February 1916 with a 10-hour artillery bombardment by 808 guns.

The Battle of Verdun began on 21 February 1916 after a nine-day delay due to snow and blizzards.

On March 3, 1916 the musicians began their job at Schiller's Cafe in Chicago under the name Stein's Dixie Jass Band.

During February 1916, plans for the joint offensive on the Somme were still in the hands of the General Staff when the Germans began an offensive against the French at Verdun.

In 1915, Chagall began exhibiting his work in Moscow, first exhibiting his works at a well-known salon and in 1916 exhibiting pictures in St. Petersburg.

Mikimoto finally made arrangements to use Nishikawa's methods after 1916, and Mikimoto's business began to expand rapidly.

Formal discussions for a spring offensive near Arras began following a conference of corps commanders held at British First Army Headquarters on 21 November 1916.

As a result, the German command began espousing a new defensive doctrine in December 1916, one that emphasized fighting an elastic defensive battle in depth, rather than rigidly holding successive lines of trenches.

A newspaper columnist in 1916, Dupont became a screenwriter and began directing his own crime-story scripts in 1918.

With Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird ( 1847 – 1923, later 11th Baron Kinnaird ) and Thomas Henry William Pelham ( 1847 – 1916 ), he rented rooms in York Place ( formerly Of Alley ), off The Strand in central London, for a boys ' school, initially a day school, which subsequently began to open in the evenings.

Riverside Hospital also known as Riverside Regional Medical Center ( a Regional Referral Hospital ), began serving the Virginia Peninsula community in 1916.

After the death of her brother Otis in 1916, the troupe began to lose money, and it wasn't until 1920 that Hattie received another big opportunity.

Among his substantial publications from this period were his book on " Time Perspective in the Aboriginal American Culture " ( 1916 ), in which he laid out an approach to using historical linguistics to study the prehistory of Native American cultures.

Alma-Tadema's meticulous archaeological research, including research into Roman architecture ( which was so thorough that every building featured in his canvases could have been built using Roman tools and methods ) led to his paintings being used as source material by Hollywood directors in their vision of the ancient world for films such as D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), Ben Hur ( 1926 ), Cleopatra ( 1934 ), and most notably of all, Cecil B. DeMille's epic remake of The Ten Commandments ( 1956 ).

In 1916, Khabarovsk Bridge across the Amur was completed, allowing Trans-Siberian trains to cross the river without using ferries ( or temporary rail tracks over the frozen river in winter ).

The route was designated in 1916 as part of pre-1927 Route 10, which was to run from Paterson east to the terminal of the Fort Lee Ferry in Edgewater, using the Paterson and Hackensack Turnpike between Paterson and Hackensack, the Bergen Turnpike from Hackensack to Ridgefield, and a new alignment between Ridgefield and Edgewater.

In 1916, using funds discretionary to himself, Lansing hired a handful of men who became the State Department's first special agents in the new Bureau of Secret Intelligence.

Hans Eysenck ( 1916 – 1997 ) was one of the first psychologists to analyze personality differences using a psycho-statistical method ( factor analysis ), and his research led him to believe that temperament is biologically based.

In 1916, he exhibited Orphist-like paintings, several of which had religious titles that also included his Portrait of Marcel Duchamp and his much discussed Les Forces MÈcaniques de l ' amour Mouvement, created by using found objects.

In 1916, Northey showed how to calculate the angle of view using ordinary carpenter's tools.

The pie fight scene paid homage to the early Mack Sennett practice of using a single thrown pie as comedic punctuation, but to a greater degree it was a celebration of classic movie pie fights such as Charlie Chaplin's Behind the Screen ( 1916 ), The Battle of the Century ( 1927 ) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, and The Three Stooges ' In the Sweet Pie and Pie from 1941.

Her debut book Dikter (" Poems "), which came out in the autumn of 1916 gained no great notice, even if a few critics were slightly perplexed – Södergran was already using associative free verse and describing selected details instead of entire landscapes.

The first United States patent for a snow-vehicle using the now recognized format of rear track ( s ) and front skis was issued to Ray H. Muscott of Waters, MI on June 27, 1916 with U. S. Patent # 1, 188, 981.

In 1916 Everard Calthrop, an early inventor of parachutes, patented an ejector seat using compressed air.

In 1916, Goldfish partnered with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn, using a combination of both names to call their movie-making enterprise Goldwyn Pictures.

* October 5-Maurice Wilkins ( b. 1916 ), Nobelaureate in Physiology for discovering the double helix structure for DNA using X-ray diffraction.

In the face of the competition, the governing board finally decided to electrify the NLR, on the two conductor rail at 600 V DC system, and electrified services started on 1 October 1916, using Oerlikon stock, though the Watford service was not electrified until 10 July 1922.

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in 1916 by Samual Goldfish in partnership with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn using an amalgamation of both last names to create the name.

Hurley was also the official photographer on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which set out in 1914 and was marooned until August 1916 ; Hurley produced many pioneering colour images of the Expedition using the then-popular Paget process of colour photography.

in 1916 and 1917 Paul Langevin and Chilowski filed two US patents disclosing the first ultrasonic submarine detector using an electrostatic method ( singing condenser ) for one patent and thin quartz crystals for the other.

Between 1912 and 1916 the company had an aviation department that built a number of seaplanes using the name Wight Aircraft:

It was constructed by the Germans ( using Russian PoWs as labour ) during the winter of 1916 – 17.

From 1916 onward, there was a Russian project by the Putilov plant to produce military half-tracks ( the Austin-Putilov model ), along the same lines, using trucks and French track parts.

A website using the name Mile High Club regards the " Club's " " founder " as pilot and design engineer Lawrence Sperry along with " socialite Mrs. Waldo Polk " citing their possibly apocryphal flight in an autopilot-equipped Curtiss Flying Boat near New York in November 1916.

They evidenced his travels to Spain during 1915 and 1916, both with an alias using a falsified Swiss passport.

With the successful introduction of Fokker's mechanism for synchronising the firing of a machine gun with the blades of a moving propeller, followed quickly by the widespread adoption of synchronisation gears by all the combatants in 1916 / 17, the tractor configuration became almost universally favoured and pushers were reduced to the tiny minority of new aircraft designs that had a specific reason for using the arrangement.