1. Lever Brothers — 2023-10-09 23:43:45

   …ng staff to live. {{Image url="SunlightVillage.jpg" class="right" title="Sunlight Village" width="450" }} == UniLever 1930 == Lever wanted to expand and in 1930 merged with the Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie and under the Unilever b…

2. Air Traffic Control — 2023-10-07 10:51:35

   … Johnson's record-breaking flights - the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia took off from Croydon in May 1930. == Links == More info: [[http://www.nats.aero/about-us/what-we-do/atc-explained| NATS]] {{Tag ids="Radio flight rad…

3. Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18

   …s television" }} == Big screen == He demonstrated a theatre television system, with a screen two feet by five feet, in 1930 at the London Coliseum, Berlin, Paris, and Stockholm. By 1939 he had improved his theatre projection system to televise…

4. Trouser Press — 2021-08-26 11:11:31

   … width="" birth_date="July 8 1924" birth_place="Leamington Spa" death_date="5/8/2021" death_place="" }} === Peter Corby 1930 === [[Domestic]]:[[Society]]:[[1900s]] The Corby trouser press, an electrical appliance used to smooth the creases from…
   … a pair of trousers, was invented by Peter Corby in 1930. Peter began producing the press in Windsor with the help of his father. His first customer was Austin Reed. ::c:: {{Im…

5. Cary Grant — 2021-08-20 10:57:47

   …ollywood's definitive leading men. Cary Grant exuded style, charm and sophistication. Grant performed in films from the 1930s through the 1960s. He starred in several **Hitchcock** films, including the 1959 hit North by Northwest. Archie Leach…

6. Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08

   …ets for Horlicks today are the UK, India and Malaysia. It is ""GlaxoSmithKline's"" top selling product in Malaysia. In 1930 Horlicks even had an Antarctic mountain named after it. == Links == [[http://www.deanweb.info/history5.html | Horlick…

7. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

   …playing field hockey in 1890, with the Field Hockey Association of America, which regulates men's play, being formed in 1930. Hockey, or "Field Hockey" as it is also known, is now played in every continent with many nations competing in the th…

8. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25

   …the RAF thought Whittle was onto something, in particular Johnny Johnson convinced him to patent the idea in '''January 1930''' *. Since the RAF was not interested in the concept they did not declare it secret, which meant that Whittle was able…

9. Plastic Surgery — 2020-08-06 08:24:01

   …00 operations on more than 5,000 soldiers. == Knighthood == Gillies was knighted in the Birthday Honours list of June 1930. == Pioneering sex reassignment surgery == In 1946, he carried out one of the earliest sex reassignment surgeries, f…

10. Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25

    …o was commissioned. Meccano Ltd's turnover for the 1910 financial year was 12,000 pounds. == Rags to Riches == By the 1930s, Hornby had become a millionaire. He owned a mansion and was chauffeured to Binns Road every day by limousine. …

11. UniLever — 2016-05-26 10:35:52

    …UniLever :: [[Domestic]] == UniLever 1930 == In 1930 the Lever Brothers from Bolton, [[Lancashire]] [[England]] merged with Margarine Unie to form Unilever. {{redirect pa…

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