Editing 1928 in science (section)

==Technology==
* February 8 – British inventor [[John Logie Baird]] broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to [[Hartsdale, New York]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Transatlantic Television in 1928|url=http://www.bairdtelevision.com/1928.html|work=Baird Television|accessdate=2015-09-29}} Extract from ''[[The New York Times]]'' 1928-02-09.</ref>
* June 11
** [[Hungarians|Hungarian]] inventor [[Kálmán Tihanyi]] files [[patent]]s in [[Germany]], the [[United Kingdom]] and [[France]] for a [[cathode ray]] television transmission system.<ref>''[http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&adjacent=true&locale=en_V3&FT=D&date=19301111&CC=GB&NR=313456A&KC=A Improvements in television apparatus]''. European Patent Office, Patent No. GB313456. Convention date (Germany): 1928-06-11, UK application: 1928-06-11, published: 1930-11-11, retrieved: 2009-12-25. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160202032140/http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?DB=EPODOC&adjacent=true&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=19301111&CC=GB&NR=313456A&KC=A Archived] 2012-02-20.</ref>
** The [[Lippisch Ente]] becomes the first aircraft to fly under [[rocket]] power, completing a {{convert|1,500|m|ft|abbr=off|sp=us|adj=on}} circuit of the landing strip at the [[Wasserkuppe]] in Germany as part of the [[Opel RAK]] program led by [[Max Valier]] and [[Fritz von Opel]].
* July 3
** British inventor [[John Logie Baird]] demonstrates the world's first [[color television]] transmission, using scanning discs.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Factfinder|publisher=Helicon|year=1999|isbn=978-1-85986-000-7 }}</ref>
** [[Ulster]]-born engineer [[Harry Ferguson]] obtains a British patent for his [[three-point linkage]] for [[tractor]]s.<ref>No. 320084.</ref>
* July 7 – The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in [[Chillicothe, Missouri]], using [[Otto Frederick Rohwedder]]'s technology.
* September 3 – [[Philo Farnsworth]] demonstrates to the Press the world's first working [[History of television#Electronic television|all-electronic television]] system, employing electronic scanning in both the pickup and display devices.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/philo.html |title=Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906-1971) |work=The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco |accessdate=2011-06-22 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622033654/http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/philo.html |archivedate=22 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Farnsworth|first=Elma G.|year=1989|title=Distant Vision: Romance & Discovery on an Invisible Frontier|location=Salt Lake City|publisher=PemberleyKent|page=[https://archive.org/details/distantvisionrom00farn/page/108 108]|isbn=978-0-9623276-0-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/distantvisionrom00farn/page/108}}</ref>
* December – Completion of the [[Maurzyce Bridge]] near [[Łowicz]] in central [[Poland]], the world's first road bridge of wholly [[Welding|welded]] construction, designed by [[Stefan Bryła]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chen|first1=Wai-Fah|last2=Duan|first2=Lian|title=Handbook of International Bridge Engineering|year=2013|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4398-1029-3|pages=600–01}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Pescatore|first1=Jean-Pierre|last2=Borgeot|first2=Jean-Henri|year=2010|chapter=Chapter 10: Welding Steel Structures|editor1-last=Blondeau|editor1-first=Regis|title=Metallurgy and mechanics of welding: processes and industrial application|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9780470393895|page=359}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wojdyga|first1=Piotr|year=2009|title=Mosty firmy K. Rudzki i S-ka|trans-title=Bridges of K. Rudzki and Co.|journal=Rocznik Mińsko Mazowiecki|volume=2009|issue=17|pages=63–74|issn=1232-633X|url=http://mazowsze.hist.pl/19/Rocznik_Minsko_Mazowiecki/437/2009/15610/|format=pdf|accessdate=2013-11-07|archive-date=2013-12-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203002551/http://mazowsze.hist.pl/19/Rocznik_Minsko_Mazowiecki/437/2009/15610/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The [[concrete pump]] is invented by German [[Max Giese]].
* [[Magnetic tape]] is invented by German [[Fritz Pfleumer]].