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The year 1933 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy. October 13 – The British Interplanetary Society is founded.
1933: The first industrially practical polyethylene synthesis discovered by Eric Fawcett and Reginald Gibson at the Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) works in Northwich, England. [10] 1935 Nylon is invented and patented by DuPont [6] 1938: Nylon is first used for bristles in toothbrushes. It features at the 1939 worlds fair and is famously ...
The further away from the camera, the slower the speed. The multiplane effect is sometimes referred to as a parallax process. As a former director and animator of Walt Disney Studios, Ub Iwerks in 1933 invented the multiplane camera using four layers of flat artwork before a horizontal camera. [252] 1933 Frequency modulation
The first flight over Mount Everest is made by the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston. [15] April 4 – American airship Akron crashes off the coast of New Jersey, killing 73 of its 76 crewmen. It is the worst aviation accident in history up to this date (and until ...
Radar was invented, known as RDF (Radio Direction Finding), such as in British Patent GB593017 by Robert Watson-Watt in 1938 The Place de Varsovie in Paris during the World Expo in 1937, photographed using newly invented Agfacolor process. In 1933, the 3M company marketed Scotch Tape; In 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first long-playing ...
Now called the Rutherford gold foil experiment, or the Geiger–Marsden experiment, these measurements made the extraordinary discovery that although most alpha particles passing through a thin gold foil experienced little deflection, a few scattered to a high angle. The scattering indicated that some of the alpha particles ricocheted back from ...
2004: First podcast, invented by Adam Curry and Dave Winer, is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet and it usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. [543] [544] [545] 2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded
Brief footage of the fairground sideshows is used in the 1933 film Hoop-La, the plot of which revolves around the fair. It was the last film made by Clara Bow. Also shown is a panorama of the Century of Progress concourse. [citation needed] In her novel The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand describes a world fair named The March of the Centuries.