Although he often lied about his origins, he formally became a French citizen in 1908, and worked for the Vickers munitions firm from 1897 to 1927.

Promoted to wing commander on 1 July 1925, he attended the senior officers ' war course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1926 before taking over No. 7 Squadron flying Vickers Virginia bombers from RAF Worthy Down in March 1927 and concentrated on improving bombing accuracy.

Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927.

After the 1927 merger, the company possessed a major yard on each coast of Britain ; the Naval Construction Yard of Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria and the Naval Yard of Armstrong Whitworth at High Walker on the River Tyne.

In 1911 the company was renamed Vickers Ltd, and in 1927 became Vickers Armstrongs Ltd after a merger with Armstrong Whitworth, whose shipyard at High Walker on the River Tyne became the " Naval Yard ".

In 1927, Armstrong Whitworth merged its heavy engineering interests with Vickers to form Vickers-Armstrongs.

In 1927, it merged with Vickers Limited to form Vickers-Armstrongs.

When Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth merged in 1927 to form Vickers-Armstrongs, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft was bought out by J. D. Siddeley and became a separate entity.

It started to receive the Vickers Virginia bomber on 22 May 1924, being the first RAF Squadron to operate Virginias, although it did not dispose of the last of its Vimys until April 1927.

1927 Driving Motor Brake Third with Metropolitan Vickers equipment

When Vickers and Armstrong Whitworth merged in 1927 to form Vickers-Armstrongs, Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft and Armstrong Siddeley were bought out by J. D. Siddeley and did not join the new grouping.

Following receivership in 1927 it was bought from Vickers by William Morris as a personal investment and years later moved into his Morris Motors empire.

* Albany, Alabama ( 1887 – 1927 ; merged with Decatur, Alabama ), named in honor of Albany, New York in 1916

In 1927 Wuhan became the seat of a government established by left-wing elements of the Kuomintang, led by Wang Jingwei ; this government was later merged into Chiang Kai-shek's government in Nanjing.

This and the Arkansas Valley Council, founded in 1924, merged in 1927 to become the Spanish Peaks Council.

The George Rogers Clark Council was formed by Scouts of Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Scott, and Washington counties in 1927, and merged with Old Kentucky Home Council in 1993 to form the Lincoln Heritage Council, which serves Scouts in Kentucky and Indiana.

* Derby-Shelton Girl Scout Council ( 1927 – 1964 ) merged to form Connecticut Trails Council.

The Lutheran seminary established at Hartwick in 1797 was incorporated in 1816, moved to Oneonta after 1931 and in 1947 merged with the 1927 Hartwick College.

Weaverville High School, built by the WPA in 1927, opened on the south end of Main Street, but later merged secondary-school operations with four other area schools ( Flat Creek, Red Oak, French Broad, and Barnardsville ) in 1954 to form North Buncombe High School.

In 1932 the districts of Winsen and Harburg were merged ; the City of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg ( which had been merged in 1927 ) became the capital of the district, although it remained district-free and hence was not a part of the district.

In 1927 the city of Fulda left the district to become a district-free city, and in 1932 the remaining district was merged with the district of Gersfeld.

Charles became president of his father's company Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in 1927, and ran it until it was sold in 1957, when it merged with the McGraw Electric Company to form the McGraw-Edison Electric Company.

In 1927 it was merged with the nearby city of Wilhelmsburg to form the city of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg.

The two groups merged in 1927, becoming the German Freethinking Association in 1930.

In 1927, Doubleday merged with the George H. Doran Company, creating Doubleday, Doran, then the largest publishing business in the English-speaking world.

The three were merged into the Brookings Institution on December 8, 1927.

1927, some schools and colleges ( e. g. industrial and agricultural colleges / schools ) were merged into the Qiushi Academy.

In 1927 the " Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy " resulted in 77 churches splitting off to form the Union of Regular Baptist Churches-out of which the current Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada merged in 1953.

This company merged in 1927 with " Rand Kardex Company " to form " Remington Rand ", which continued to manufacture office equipment and later became a major computer company, as well as manufacturing electric razors.

In 1927, these four schools merged to found UMG, University of Minas Gerais, a private institution subsidized by the state government.

The station was later expanded to accommodate the Tamagawa Railway ( 1907 ; closed 1969 ), the Tōkyō Line ( 1927 ), the Teito Shibuya Line ( 1933 ; now the Inokashira Line ), the Tōkyō Rapid Railway ( 1938 ; began through service with the Ginza Line in 1939 and formally merged in 1941 ), the Den-en-toshi Line ( 1977 ), the Hanzōmon Line ( 1978 ) and the Fukutoshin Line ( 2008 ).

Harriman & Co. ( renamed Harriman Brothers & Company in 1927 ) well-positioned for this enterprise and rich in assets from their German and Russian business, merged with the British-American investment house Brown Bros. & Co. on January 1, 1931.

In 1927, the Regent's Canal Company bought the Grand Junction Canal and the Warwick Canals, the merged entity coming into force on 1 January 1929 as the Grand Union Canal Company.

On August 1, 1927 the governorates were abolished, and merged into newly established Leningrad Oblast.

In 1927, the school merged with Ogden College, which occupied an adjacent campus.

The opinion continues here that with a 162-game schedule, pitching spread thin through a 10-team league and a most inviting target in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field Jr., Mantle just might break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe Ruth's 60 homers of 1927.

But now, for the first time since Lou Gehrig ( with 47 home runs ) spurred Ruth on in 1927, two men playing for the same team have zeroed in on 60.

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

The Aaltos moved their office to Turku in 1927, and started collaborating with architect Erik Bryggman.

His many plays included Nobody's Widow ( 1910 ), starring Blanche Bates ; Fair and Warmer ( 1915 ), starring Madge Kennedy ( filmed in 1919 ); The Gold Diggers ( 1919 ), starring Ina Claire ( filmed in 1923 as The Gold Diggers, in 1928 as Gold Diggers of Broadway and also as Gold Diggers of 1933 ); Ladies ' Night, 1920, starring Charlie Ruggles ( filmed in 1928 ); the famous mystery play The Bat ( with Mary Roberts Rinehart ), 1920 ( filmed in 1926, 1930 and 1959 ); Getting Gertie's Garter ( with Wilson Collison ), 1921, starring Hazel Dawn ( filmed in 1927 and 1945 ); The Demi-Virgin, 1921, also starring Hazel Dawn ; The Alarm Clock, 1923 ; The Best People ( with David Gray ), 1924 ( filmed in 1925 and as Fast and Loose in 1930 ), the song-farce Naughty Cinderella, 1925, starring Irene Bordoni and The Garden of Eden in 1927 ( filmed in as 1928 ).

This approach was continued by Russell and Whitehead in their influential Principia Mathematica, first published 1910-1913, and with a revised second edition in 1927.

In 1927 a short nine-game series took place in Argentina, with the Lions winning all nine encounters ; the tour did however become a financial success for Argentine rugby.

In 1927 Fuller resolved to think independently which included a commitment to " the search for the principles governing the universe and help advance the evolution of humanity in accordance with them ... finding ways of doing more with less to the end that all people everywhere can have more and more.

Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season ( 1927 ), a mark first eclipsed by Roger Maris in 1961 with 61.

In 1927, when Williams moved to OKeh Records, he took Jefferson with him, and OKeh quickly recorded and released Jefferson's " Matchbox Blues " backed with " Black Snake Moan ," which was to be his only OKeh recording, probably because of contractual obligations with Paramount.

In 1927, Jefferson recorded another of his now classic songs, the haunting " See That My Grave Is Kept Clean " ( once again using the pseudonym Deacon L. J. Bates ) along with two other uncharacteristically spiritual songs, " He Arose from the Dead " and " Where Shall I Be.

In 1927, the Belgian Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began with the " explosion " of a " primeval atom "— which was later called the Big Bang.

The Croatian Peasant Party boycotted the government of the Serbian People's Radical Party throughout the period, except for a brief interlude between 1925 and 1927, when external Italian expansionism was at hand with her allies, Albania, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria that threatened Yugoslavia as a whole.

He directed dozens of silent films, including Paramount Pictures ' first production, The Squaw Man ( 1914 ), which was co-directed by Oscar Apfel, before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such films as Don't Change Your Husband ( 1919 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), and The King of Kings ( 1927 ).

Walter Heitler and Fritz London are credited with the first successful quantum mechanical explanation of a chemical bond, specifically that of molecular hydrogen, in 1927.

It is also sometimes confused with Religious Science, religious denomination in line with the New Thought tradition and founded in 1927.