Documents in Year 1927                     

Links of Interest:

• Calvin Coolidge, Thirtieth U.S. President

(1923-1929)

• Ford reaches 15 million Model T's manufactured.

• Charles Lindbergh lands "Spirit of St. Louis" in Paris

May 21, 1927 "Lucky Lindy" successfully completed the first trans-Atlantic flight.

• PBS Biography on Lindbergh

• First Motion Picture - The Jazz Singer

Audiences see the first of motion pictures with sound, known as "talkies", The Jazz Singer on
6 October 1927 produced by Warner Brothers.

• First Electronic Image

by Philo Farnsworth that led to television.

• Tamiami Trail built through Florida Everglades Swamp

Land Boom to Miami, Florida
BBC Atlas of the Natural World North America "Land of the Eagle" Documentary 2006.

• Edward S. Curtis

(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)

• A Nebraska chemist concocts Kool-Aid. Stainless-Steel cutlery appears, automatic toaster arrives and Milk is homogenized.
  Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 153 & 161