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==Technology== * January 24 β The first [[beer can]] is sold in [[Richmond, Virginia]], United States, by the [[Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Maxwell|first=D. B. S.|title=Beer Cans: A Guide for the Archaeologist|journal=Historical Archaeology|year=1993|volume=27|issue=1|pages=95β113|doi=10.1007/BF03373561|jstor=25616219|s2cid=160267011}}</ref> * June 12 β Conrad Bahr and George Pfefferle file a United States [[patent]] for an adjustable ratcheting [[torque wrench]].<ref>{{cite patent|country=US|number=2074079|title=Torque measuring wrench|pubdate=1937-03-16|inventor=Charles, Bahr Conrad & Pfefferle, George H.|url=http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2074079.html}}</ref> * July 16 β The world's first [[parking meter]] is installed in [[Oklahoma City]] to a design by Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale [[patent]]ed by [[Carl Magee]].<ref>United States patent #2,118,318 for a "coin controlled parking meter" filed 13 May 1935.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cityofinglewood.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=466 |publisher=[[Inglewood, California]] |title=Inglewood Did Not Invent The Parking Meter |access-date=2012-02-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314022517/http://www.cityofinglewood.org/news/displaynews.asp?NewsID=466 |archive-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pom.com/|title=POM Parking Meters|access-date=2012-02-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wN8DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA519|title=Coin-in-Slot Parking Meter Brings Revenue to City|journal=[[Popular Mechanics]]|date=October 1935|page=519|last1=Magazines|first1=Hearst}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=70 Years Ago β Tick Tick Tick|journal=Smithsonian |page=18 |date=May 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118574808780081653?mod=hps_us_editors_picks|last=Crossen|first=Cynthia|title=When Parallel Parking Was New and Meters Seemed Un-American|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=2007-07-30|access-date=2012-02-17}}</ref><ref>[[History (U.S. TV channel)|The History Channel]]. ''History's Lost and Found''.</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Chan|first=Sewell|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/nyregion/20cnd-meter.html?ex=1324270800&en=1b3d441d5381e8c5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss|title=New York Retires Last Mechanical Parking Meter|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2006-12-20|access-date=2012-02-17}}</ref> * November 6 ** [[Edwin H. Armstrong]] presents his paper on [[FM broadcasting]], "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation", to the New York section of the [[Institute of Radio Engineers]]. ** First flight of the [[Hawker Hurricane]] British [[fighter aircraft]], designed by [[Sydney Camm]]. * [[Callender-Hamilton bridge]] patented by [[A. M. Hamilton]]. * Helical lobe [[rotary-screw compressor]] patented by [[Alf Lysholm]] of Ljungstroms Angturbin in Sweden.
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