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.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Charles Holden designed a series of modernist and art-deco stations for which the Underground remains famous.

A working solar cell, of low efficiency, was constructed by Charles Fritts in 1883 using a metal plate coated with selenium and a thin layer of gold ; the device became commercially useful in photographic light meters in the 1930s.

For all his four 1930s musicals, Novello wrote the book and music, Christopher Hassall wrote the lyrics, and the orchestrations were by Charles Prentice.

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.

The MDR was later bought by Charles Yerkes, forming part of the " Underground " group until it was nationalised in the 1930s.

Pastoralists arrived in the area shortly afterward with Charles Brockman setting up Boolatha Station in 1877 and the region experienced success in wool production until the 1930s when the overgrazing, drought and the great depression caused most businesses to fail.

In the 1930s, the Swedish Nazis held celebrations on the date of Charles XII's death, and shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Adolf Hitler received from Sweden a sculpture of the king at his birthday.

Two European retired circus stars, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gay, operated this tourist attraction, which has been called “ the Disneyland of the 1920s and 1930s ” by historian Jack Barton, and many others of that era.

In the 1920s and 1930s Richard W. Schabacker published several books which continued the work of Charles Dow and William Peter Hamilton in their books Stock Market Theory and Practice and Technical Market Analysis.

" The Shadow Strikes " often led The Shadow into encounters with well-known celebrities of the 1930s, such as Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, union organizer John L. Lewis, and Chicago gangsters Frank Nitti and Jake Guzik.

In response to the rise of European fascism in the 1930s he was asked to write We Europeans with the ethnologist A. C. Haddon, zoologist Alexander Carr-Saunders and historian of science Charles Singer.

In the 1930s, a famous radio evangelist of the period was Roman Catholic priest Father Charles Coughlin, whose strongly anti-Communist and anti-Semitic radio programs reached millions of listeners.

Other early Christian radio programs broadcast nationwide in the U. S. beginning in the 1920s – 1930s include ( years of radio broadcast shown ): Bob Jones, Sr. ( 1927 – 1962 ), Ralph W. Sockman ( 1928 – 1962 ), G. E. Lowman ( 1930 – 1965 ), The Lutheran Hour ( 1930 – present ), and Charles E. Fuller ( 1937 – 1968 ).

He was also an ancestor of actor Charles B. Middleton, who played Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon movies of the 1930s.

Charles O ' Connell, who produced many of Toscanini's RCA Victor recordings in the 1930s and early 1940s, said that RCA quickly decided to record the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, whenever possible, after being disappointed with the dull-sounding early recordings in Studio 8-H in 1938 and 1939.

A four-wheeled, two-seater, pedal-propelled car called the ' Velocar ' was built in the 1930s by French inventor and light car builder Charles Mochet.

Additionally in the 1930s through the 1950s several jazz and blues singer-songwriters emerged like Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, and Nina Simone, as well as in the rock n ' roll genre from which emerged influential singer-songwriters Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Richie Valens, and Paul Anka.

In the 1930s, Anne and Charles together explored and charted air routes between continents.

Michael Kazin's The Populist Persuasion ( 1995 ) argued that Populism reflected a rhetorical style that manifested itself in spokesmen like Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s and Governor George Wallace in the 1960s.

He often contributed to the scripts of his films, under unusual pseudonyms such as the seemingly prosaic " Charles Bogle ", which appeared on most of his films in the 1930s ; " Otis Criblecoblis ", which contains an embedded homophone for " scribble "; and " Mahatma Kane Jeeves ", a play on mahatma and on a phrase an aristocrat might use when about to leave the house: " My hat, my cane, Jeeves ".

By the early 1930s, it has placed France under the rule of King Charles XI, and spends the decade re-arming for a rematch with Germany.

It would take the Lindbergh kidnapping trial in the 1930s to eclipse the high profile of the Hall-Mills murder.

In the 1930s, as caving became increasingly popular, small exploration teams both in the Alps and in the karstic high plateaus of southwest France ( Causses and Pyrenees ) transformed cave exploration in both a scientific and recreational activity.

It formed its first government under parliamentarism in 1889, and continued to alternate in power with the Liberals until the 1930s, when Labour became the dominant political party.

By the 1930s, the five-line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar.

He immigrated to the U. S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s.

Capra became one of America's most powerful directors during the 1930s, winning three Oscars as Best Director.

In Kenya, Christian missionaries in the 1920s and 1930s forbade their adherents from practising it — in part because of the medical consequences, but also because the accompanying rituals were seen as highly sexualized — and as a result it became a focal point of the independence movement among the Kikuyu, the country's main ethnic group.

This reduced manufacturing costs and, combined with a wider use of colored glass, led to cheap glassware in the 1930s, which later became known as Depression glass.

By the 1930s, Genosha Bay later became a United States extraterritorial prison which hold prisoners of the worse cases from around the world and was notorious for practicing inhumane punishments on its prisoners ranging from sleep deprivations and water torture.

In the process, Prussia became too heterogeneous, lost its identity, and by the 1930s had become an administrative shell of little importance.

Whilst the general public was not aware of nature observation ( formally conducted as field research ) during the 1930s, practitioners of the hobby went on to become the pioneers of the conservation movement that flourished in the UK from 1965 onwards ; a movement that eventually became a global political movement within a generation's timespan.

Some of them founded Action Française in 1898, during the Dreyfus Affair ; it became an influential movement throughout the 1930s, in particular among the conservative Catholic intellectuals.

After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s.

The IALA became a major supporter of mainstream American linguistics, funding, for example, numerous studies by Sapir, Collinson, and Morris Swadesh in the 1930s and 1940s.

Conceived in the early 1930s, the electric guitar became a necessity as jazz musicians sought to amplify their sound.

When Fairbanks ' romance with Sylvia, Lady Ashley became public in the early 1930s he and Pickford separated.

To the north, the foreshore used to be around Government Avenue in the 1920s but it shifted to a new road, King Faisal Road, in the early 1930s which became the coastal road.

In the late 1930s, Meher Baba invited a group of Western women to join him in India, where he arranged a series of trips throughout India and Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) that became known as the Blue Bus Tours.

In the 1930s, the first travel trailers became available, and this made camping even more popular.

Long-neglected 1930s through 1950s roadside diners, filling stations and other abandoned highway infrastructure became a target for historic preservation.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Daytona Beach became known as the place to set world land speed records, supplanting France and Belgium as the preferred location for land speed records, with eight consecutive world records set between 1927 and 1935.

It was updated in his dictionary Novial Lexike in 1930, and further modifications were proposed in the 1930s, but the language became dormant with Jespersen's death in 1943.

In the late 1930s, John W. Campbell became editor of Astounding Science Fiction, and a critical mass of new writers emerged in New York City in a group called the Futurians, including Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Donald A. Wollheim, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Judith Merril, and others.

The screwball comedy is a principally American genre of comedy film that became popular during the Great Depression, originating in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s.

The city then flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became the undisputed financial hub of the Asia Pacific in the 1930s.