Chemical Engineering - 1927

• Babe Ruth earns home run record by hitting 60 home runs in a single season. (1927)
• Charles Lindberg flies nonstop solo from New York to Paris. (1927)
• Philo Farnsworth demonstrates working television model. (1927)
• Georges Lemaitre proposes Big Bang Theory. (1927)
• German economy collapses.  Socialists riot in Vienna; general strike follows acquittal of Nazis for political murder.
• Trotsky expelled from Russian Communist Party.
• The Jazz Singer, with Al Jolson, is the first part-talking motion picture.

College of Engineering, 1927. (1927 GEMS)

Engineering Hall, 1927. (1927 GEMS)