An early pioneer of radio astronomy was Grote Reber, an amateur astronomer who constructed the first purpose built radio telescope in the late 1930s to follow up on the discovery of radio wavelength emissions from space by Karl Jansky.

His first major published work was in 1911, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, and was arguably the most prominent US folk music scholar of his time, notably during the beginnings of the folk music revival in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Roma returned to form after being inconsistent for much of the late 1930s ; Roma recorded an unexpected title triumph in the 1941 – 42 season by winning their first ever scudetto title.

In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally.

The first β sheet structure was proposed by William Astbury in the 1930s.

The formal definition and the distinction between pointwise continuity and uniform continuity were first given by Bolzano in the 1830s but the work wasn't published until the 1930s.

This is the diagnosis used in Robert Graves ' Claudius novels, first published in the 1930s.

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.

The first known badge, from the 1930s, consisted of the letters CAF in the shape of a club from a pack of cards.

The first three issues were an adaptation of the original story, while the latter three were a sequel set in the 1930s.

Her first stories appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s, including two significant series in Weird Tales.

Italian composer Sylvano Bussotti, whose composing career spans from the 1930s to the first decade of the 21st century, wrote a solo work for bass in 1983 entitled Naked Angel Face per contrabbasso.

With numerous people experimenting with electrical instruments in the 1920s and early 1930s, there are many claimants to have been the first to invent an electric guitar.

Its main competitors were the Bélinograf by Édouard Belin first, then since the 1930s the Hellschreiber, invented in 1929 by German inventor Rudolf Hell, a pioneer in mechanical image scanning and transmission.

While Fokker would pursue steel tube fuselages with wooden wings until the late 1930s, and Junkers would focus on corrugated sheet metal, Dornier was the first to build a fighter ( The Dornier D. I ) made with pre-stressed sheet aluminium and having cantelevered wings, a form that would replace all others in the 1930s.

Also, in spite of ideological differences, Fascist Italy was the first western country to recognize the Soviet Union, in 1933 Fascist Italy had signed a friendship and nonaggression treaty with the Soviet Union, and in the late 1930s both Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany supported rapproachment with the Soviet Union.

After the first crude X-ray diffraction images of DNA were collected in the 1930s, William Astbury had talked about stacks of nucleotides spaced at 3. 4 angström ( 0. 34 nanometre ) intervals in DNA.

Electronic signalling of the control surfaces was first tested in the 1930s, on the Soviet Tupolev ANT-20 .< ref > Official cite of PSC " Tupolev ".

The narrative is interwoven with a love story and an examination of women's struggles to enlarge their roles and achieve some independence within the social climate of 1930s England, and the novel has been described as " the first feminist mystery novel.

Although " posterity has treated Maurice Evans less kindly ", throughout the 1930s and 1940s he was regarded by many as the leading interpreter of Shakespeare in the United States and in the 1938 / 9 season he presented Broadway's first uncut Hamlet, running four and a half hours.

Trick-or-treating does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the first U. S. appearances of the term in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939.

The first mass-produced Halloween costumes appeared in stores in the 1930s when trick-or-treating was becoming popular in the United States.

Over time, the club has become a symbol of the nation's culture and italianità (" Italianness "), due to their tradition of success, some of which have had a significant impact in Italian society, especially in the 1930s and the first postwar decade ; and the ideological politics and socio-economic origin of the club's sympathisers.

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

The modern culture of cognitive science can be traced back to the early cyberneticists in the 1930s and 1940s, such as Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, who sought to understand the organizing principles of the mind.

Recent technology has changed the speed of communication between fans and the technology available, but the basic concepts developed by science fiction fanzines in the 1930s can be seen online today.

Comics were mentioned and discussed as early as the late 1930s in the fanzines of science fiction fandom.

Meanwhile, much pulp science fiction published during 1920s and 1930s carried an exaggerated view of masculinity along with sexist portrayals of women, a view subtly satirized by Stella Gibbons in Cold Comfort Farm ( 1932 ).

Gernsback combined his fiction and science into Everyday Science and Mechanics magazine, serving as the editor in the 1930s.

The major Egyptian influence on Mahfouz's thoughts of science and socialism in the 1930s was Salama Moussa, the Fabian intellectual.

Philosophers of science began to pay increasing attention to developments in biology, from the rise of the Modern synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s to the discovery of the structure of Deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA ) in 1953 to more recent advances in genetic engineering.

Visually it was a mesh of various styles, ranging from 1930s Hollywood glamour, through 1950s pin-up sex appeal, pre-war Cabaret theatrics, Victorian literary and symbolist styles, science fiction, to ancient and occult mysticism and mythology ; manifesting itself in outrageous clothes, makeup, hairstyles, and platform-soled boots.

* Pigs in Space – Parody of science fiction programmes like Star Trek, but also 1930s sci-fi serials.

C. L. Moore was Catherine Lucille Moore, who wrote in the 1930s male-dominated science fiction genre, and S. E. Hinton, ( author of The Outsiders ) is Susan Eloise Hinton.

Asimov read this story at the age of 11, and acknowledged it as a source of inspiration in Before the Golden Age ( 1975 ), an anthology of 1930s science fiction in which Asimov told the story of the science fiction he read during his formative years.

The concept of zines clearly had an ancestor in the amateur press movement ( a major preoccupation of H. P. Lovecraft ), which would in its turn cross-pollinate with the subculture of science fiction fandom in the 1930s.

A science fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day.

" He was also a frequent contributor of prose stories to the pulp science fiction magazines of the 1930s and 1940s.

While most mineral water resorts fell out of favor as medical science began to question the healing properties of mineral springs, Red Boiling Springs persisted, reaching its peak in the 1920s and 1930s.

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.

Computability theory, also called recursion theory, is a branch of mathematical logic, of computer science, and of the theory of computation that originated in the 1930s with the study of computable functions and Turing degrees.

Category: 1930s science fiction novels

Use of a technique called therapeutic touch was especially reviewed by Sokal, who concluded, " nearly all the pseudoscientific systems to be examined in this essay are based philosophically on vitalism " and added that " Mainstream science has rejected vitalism since at least the 1930s, for a plethora of good reasons that have only become stronger with time.

In the 1930s there were several big budget science fiction films, notably Just Imagine ( 1930 ), King Kong ( 1933 ), Things to Come ( 1936 ) and Lost Horizon ( 1937 ).

Other notable science fiction films of the 1930s include Frankenstein ( 1931 ), Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ), Doctor X ( 1932 ), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ), F. P. 1 ( 1932 ), Island of Lost Souls ( 1932 ), Deluge ( 1933 ), The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), Mad Love ( 1935 ), Trans-Atlantic Tunnel ( 1935 ), The Devil-Doll ( 1936 ), The Invisible Ray ( 1936 ), The Man Who Changed His Mind ( 1936 ), The Walking Dead ( 1936 ), Non-Stop New York ( 1937 ), and The Return of Doctor X ( 1939 ).