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1927 and Philo
* 1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
In 1927, Philo T. Farnsworth established the first electronic television.
Philo Taylor Farnsworth, the American inventor of all-electronic television in September 1927, contributed to this in an important way.
The Canary Murder Case ( 1927 ) is a murder mystery novel which deals with the murders of a sexy nightclub singer known as " the Canary ," and eventually, that of her boyfriend, solved by Philo Vance.
All-electronic television, first demonstrated in September 1927 in San Francisco by Philo Farnsworth, and then publicly by Farnsworth at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia in 1934, was rapidly overtaking mechanical television.
But in 1943, at the behest of Columbia history professor and former Philo president Jacques Barzun ( Class of 1927 ), several undergraduates competed for the Philolexian Centennial Washington Prize, an oratory competition endowed by J. Ackerman Coles ( Class of 1864 ), bestowed on the society on the occasion of its centennial in 1902.

1927 and Farnsworth
* The Moon Terror ( 1927 ) edited anonymously by Farnsworth Wright.
In January 1927, Farnsworth applied for a patent for his Television System that included a device for " the conversion and dissecting of light ".
Yet this same story became his first professional sale when editor Farnsworth Wright bought it and published it in Weird Tales ( Nov 1927 ).
Farnsworth submitted a patent application for the image dissector on January 7, 1927.
Because of this, Farnsworth, once considered to be one of the brightest young officers of the Navy, was brought to a court-martial in 1927.

1927 and made
With these aids, and a pair of skiis substituting for wheels on the Waco, Bob Fogg made the first landing on what is now part of the Barre-Montpelier Airport on November 21, 1927.
Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.
* In 1927, Charles Lindbergh made the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in an aircraft ( between New York City and Paris ).
Great progress was made in the field of aviation during the 1920s and 1930s, such as Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight in 1927, and Charles Kingsford Smith's transpacific flight the following year.
Trotskyists argue that the party was doomed to its present character, that of petty-bourgeois nationalism in the 1920s, because of the near-annihilation of the workers ' movement in the KMT betrayal of 1927, which was made possible by Stalin's order that the Communists join with the KMT in a centrist coalition, effectively disarming it, which opportunity the KMT swiftly exploited to defeat the communist revolution.
They made three feature films together during 1926 and 1927, all of them becoming successful with the critics and the public.
* 1927 film made in Phonofilm at SilentEra
However, in May 1927, during a row over clandestine Soviet support for the General Strike and the distribution of subversive propaganda, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made details from the decrypts public.
In 1927, the Gennett studios in Richmond, Indiana, made a recording of black fiddler Jim Booker with other instrumentalists ; their recordings were labeled " made for Hillbilly " in the Gennett files, and were marketed to a white audience.
The first was made in the company of his mother while traveling from the United States to Guam in 1927.
In February 1927 the first section, between Paddington and the West Central District Office, was made available for training.
In this period, Pickford also made Sparrows ( 1926 ), which blended the Dickensian with newly minted German expressionist style, and the romantic comedy My Best Girl ( 1927 ).
In 1927 Paramount and MGM, Hollywood's two top studios, noting the profits being made by companies like Pathé Exchange and Educational, both re-entered the production and distribution of short subjects after several years.
In early 1927, Mao returned to Hunan where, in an urgent meeting held by the Communist Party, he made a report based on his investigations of the peasant uprisings in the wake of the Northern Expedition.
File: Lemaitre. jpg | Georges Lemaître ( 1894-1966 ): first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law, made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant which he published in 1927 ( two years before Hubble's article ), proposed the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe
Before the release of Moana, Flaherty made two short films in New York City with private backing, The Pottery Maker ( 1925 ) and The Twenty-Four Dollar Island ( 1927 ).
The New York Times made an early reference to " Radio Row " in 1927, when Cortlandt Street celebrated a " Radio Jubilee ".
Around 1927, the virtuoso's situation brightened ; he had exciting commissions from Diaghilev and made concert tours in Russia ; in addition, he enjoyed a very successful staging of The Love for Three Oranges in Leningrad ( as Saint Petersburg was then known ).
* Leyland Titan ( front engined double-decker ), a chassis for double-decker buses, made from 1927 to 1970
The Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 made general strikes illegal and ended the automatic payment of union members to the Labour Party.
Paul Hindemith and Vadim Borisovsky made an early attempt at an organization in 1927 with the Violists ' World Union.
< imagemap > File: 1920s decade montage. png | From left, clockwise: Third Tipperary Brigade Flying Column No. 2 under Sean Hogan during the Irish Civil War ; Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol in accordance to the 18th amendment, which made alcoholic beverages illegal throughout the entire decade ; In 1927, Charles Lindbergh embarks on the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris on the Spirit of St. Louis ; A crowd gathering on Wall Street after the 1929 stock market crash, which led to the Great Depression ; Benito Mussolini and Fascist Blackshirts during the March on Rome in 1922 ; the People's Liberation Army attacking government defensive positions in Shandong, during the Chinese Civil War ; The Women's suffrage campaign leads to numerous countries granting women the right to vote and be elected ; Babe Ruth becomes the iconic baseball player of the time .| 420px | thumb
Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).

1927 and world's
* 1927 – At 07: 52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
* 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Major silent films presumed lost include Saved from the Titanic ( 1912 ); The Apostle, the world's first animated feature film ( 1917 ); Cleopatra ( 1917 ); Arirang ( 1926 ); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ( 1927 ); The Great Gatsby ( 1926 ); and London After Midnight ( 1927 ).
Remarkably, in 1927 Baird also invented the world's first video recording system, " Phonovision ": by modulating the output signal of his TV camera down to the audio range, he was able to capture the signal on a 10-inch wax audio disc using conventional audio recording technology.
In 1927, Baird transmitted a long-distance television signal over of telephone line between London and Glasgow ; Baird transmitted the world's first long-distance television pictures to the Central Hotel at Glasgow Central Station.
Since 1927, Kassel has been home to Bärenreiter, one of the world's most important music publishers.
Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).
Howard Marmon had begun working on the world's first automotive V16 engine in 1927, but was unable to complete the production ' Sixteen ' model until 1931.
In 1927, Emil Lerp, the founder of Dolmar, developed the world's first gasoline-powered chainsaw and mass-produced them.
Charles A. Lindbergh, arguably the world's most famous aviator, spent quite a bit of time in Hempstead both before and after his epic solo flight from nearby Roosevelt Field to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France on May 20, 1927.
Many design elements of the basilica symbolise nationalist themes: the portico, with its three arches, is adorned by two equestrian statues of French national saints Joan of Arc ( 1927 ) and King Saint Louis IX, both executed in bronze by Hippolyte Lefebvre ; and the nineteen-ton Savoyarde bell ( one of the world's heaviest ), cast in 1895 in Annecy, alludes to the annexation of Savoy in 1860.
By 1927, half of the world's supply of soybean was from Manchuria and the efforts by Mantetsu to expand production and to ship to export ports was a classic example of an extractive colonial economy dependent on a single product.
The world's first long-distance television pictures were transmitted to the Central Hotel in the station, on 24 May 1927 by John Logie Baird.
Flinders Street Station, intersection of Swanston and Flinders Streets in 1927 when it was the world's busiest passenger station.
Howard Marmon had begun working on the world's first V16 engine in 1927, but was unable to complete the production Sixteen until 1931.
* 7 April 1927: world's first videophone call via an electro-mechanical AT & T unit, from Washington, D. C. to New York City, by then-Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover.
In 1927, the settlement's huge sheep shearing shed was built, which is claimed to be the world's largest, with a capacity of five thousand sheep.
" By 1927 they had become the world's largest manufacturer of toy guns.
Close downstream of where Lough Derg empties into the Shannon are the falls of Doonass, the largest fall on the otherwise gently sloping river, with the nearby location of the world's then-largest hydroelectric power plant at Ardnacrusha in 1927.
In 1927, he managed to wrest control of Cecil Rhodes ' De Beers empire, building and consolidating the company's global monopoly over the world's diamond industry until his retirement.
* 1927 John Caples, who later will become the world's authority on copy testing, joins BDO.
By 1927, the vault contained 10 % of the world's official gold reserves.
Founded in 1927, it is the world's oldest and largest Koala sanctuary.

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