* 1928 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.

This development led to the Cierva C. 8, which, on 18 September 1928, made the first rotorcraft crossing of the English Channel followed by a tour of Europe.

* Cierva C. 17, a 1928 English experimental autogyro

* 1928 – Jimmy Dean, American singer, actor, and businessman, founded the Jimmy Dean Food Company ( d. 2010 )

* 1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

* 1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

Though it was never officially adopted in any country, it was the official calendar of the Eastman Kodak Company from 1928 to 1989.

Eduard Spranger's personality-model, consisting of six ( or, by some revisions, 6 + 1 ) basic types of value attitudes, described in his book Types of Men ( Lebensformen ; Halle ( Saale ): Niemeyer, 1914 ; English translation by P. J. W. Pigors-New York: G. E. Stechert Company, 1928 ).

He merged his Oshkosh, Wisconsin-based operation with the Timken-Detroit Axle Company in 1928, rising to become chairman of its board in 1940.

Baird then set up the Baird Television Development Company Ltd, which in 1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York, and the first television programme for the BBC.

* 1928 Lyric, Hammersmith, Lewis Casson as Henry ( Old Vic Company )

* Mackenzie, Catherine C. " Alexander Graham Bell ", Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, p. 226, 1928.

* Mulan Joins the Army ( 1928 film ) – Mingxing Film Company production, directed by Hou Yao.

The name originated in 1928 when the Dopyera brothers formed the Dobro Manufacturing Company.

The large Routemaster tyres were moulded and cured, just to the south on the Great West Road in Brentford by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company whose factory was opened there in 1928.

However, the yo-yo would remain in relative obscurity until 1928 when a Filipino American named Pedro Flores opened the Yo-yo Manufacturing Company in Santa Barbara, California.

As the decade went on, production slowed, and by 1928 the Wilshire Oil Company was drilling in deep sand levels.

* Ignazio Vella ( 1928 – 2011 ) ran the Vella Cheese Company for many years and also served three terms on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors.

* 1928 – The first canned tomato juice was created by Walter Kemp from Kemp Brothers Canning Company in response to a physician's need for baby food.

Whittington was the president of defunct Bossier Bank and Trust Company and a Louisiana state senator from 1928 – 1932.

Chelmsford was the birthplace of the Chelmsford Spring Co. in 1901, which later became the Chelmsford Ginger Ale Company, acquired by Canada Dry in 1928.

On July 7, 1928, the Chillicothe Baking Company began selling pre-sliced bread " at quality grocers in the area ", marking the first time sliced bread was available commercially in the world.

In 1926, the Arthur D. Crane Company along with developer and designer Herbert L. Closs constructed a 600-foot dam across the Wallkill River to form Lake Mohawk in 1928.

Carolina Power & Light Company began construction of the Tillery Hydroelectric development in 1926 and started producing electricity in the spring of 1928.

It was manufactured in 1928 by the Spillman Manufacturing Company of North Tonawanda, New York.

Edward Hines bought the railroad and lumber company from Herrick in 1928, and a post office named Hines was established in 1931 to serve the Edward Hines Lumber Company mill and surrounding community.

In 1928, the Fire Department reorganized into two companies — Fire Company No. 1 and Fire Company No. 2.

Smith moved his family to Louisiana in 1928 because his wife contracted tuberculosis, and facilities in Shreveport had a good reputation for helping those with the disease.

The Parnall / Pobjoy design, the 7-cylinder 67 hp Pobjoy P, received its 50-hour type rating in 1928.

In 1928, MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Academy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on a scroll.

It provided a direct connection between the streamlined style which was popular in America between 1928 and 1938, and the concept of steady-flow which appeared in street and highway design in the same period.

The next few years saw a race to design, implement, and market several rival sound-on-disc and sound-on-film sound formats, such as Photokinema ( 1921 ), Phonofilm ( 1923 ), Vitaphone ( 1926 ), Fox Movietone ( 1927 ), and RCA Photophone ( 1928 ).

Thomas R. Bruce ( postmaster 1898 – 1928 ) was the first islander to design a postage stamp, the 1922 – 1937 George V ship-design — this significantly contributed to island revenues for several years.

In 1928 Vickers-Armstrongs took over Supermarine as Supermarine Aviation Works ( Vickers ) Ltd and in 1938 all Vickers-Armstrongs aviation interests were reorganised to become Vickers-Armstrongs ( Aircraft ) Ltd, although Supermarine continued to design, build and trade under its own name.

Dobro is a registered trademark now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar. 1928 Dobro style 37 tenor guitar from Lowell Levinger's collection

Chaplin officially began pre-production of the film in May 1928 and hired Austrian art director Henry Clive to design the sets that summer.

A new medal obverse was introduced at these Games, replacing the design by Giuseppe Cassioli that had been used since the 1928 Games.

Tiffin is the home of the historic Ritz Theatre, built in 1928 as a vaudeville house with an Italian Renaissance design.

From 1965-76, Mamod made a steam engine for Meccano, the design of which was based on the 1928 version, with a similar chassis but using a standard Mamod horizontal boiler and engine parts.

In October 1928 he began design of the " R " engine while walking with some of his leading engineers on the beach at West Wittering, sketching ideas in the sand.

A new culture developed in and around Berlin, including architecture and design ( Bauhaus, 1919 – 33 ), a variety of literature ( Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1929 ), film ( Lang, Metropolis, 1927, Dietrich, Der blaue Engel, 1930 ), painting ( Grosz ), and music ( Brecht and Weill, The Threepenny Opera, 1928 ), criticism ( Benjamin ), philosophy / psychology ( Jung ), and fashion.

The design of the circulation threepence remained the same as that of the Maundy threepence until 1928, when a new design was introduced for the circulating coins.

In 1948 the Eight was replaced by what is probably the most famous Morris car, the Morris Minor designed by Alec Issigonis ( who later went on to design the Mini ) and reusing the small car name from 1928.

Leslie Earl Robertson ( born February 12, 1928 ) was one of the structural engineers of the World Trade Center in New York, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and was responsible for the design of the buildings ' sway-reduction features.

King George V was depicted in 1911 as Admiral of the Fleet in a widely-admired design that continued in use until 1928.

In April 1928, the design of one Mr C. R. Wylie, having won the competition, was sent to the College of Arms, in London, for approval.

After minor adjustments, King George V granted the design by Royal Warrant dated 8 October 1928.

The early shopping center in the United States took shape at the Grandview Avenue Shopping Center ( the " Bank Block ") in Grandview Heights, Ohio in 1928, the first regional shopping center in America that integrated parking into the design.

Ju 52 development had started in 1928 as a single-engined commercial transport and evolved, initially to a two-engined, later into the classic " trimotor " design for which the Tante Ju became world famous.

Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE ( 19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982 ) was an influential English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of Lotus Cars.

The Metropolitan Police ( Met ) introduced police boxes throughout London between 1928 and 1937, and the design that later became the most well-known was created for the Met by Gilbert MacKenzie Trench in 1929.