Technology
- February - Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda publish the first description of the Yagi-Uda antenna.
- July
- Alan A. Griffith publishes An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design, proposing an airfoil shape for turbine blades.
- Carl Zeiss, Jena, open a planetarium housed in a geodesic dome designed by Walther Bauersfeld.
- November 23 - The aerosol spray can is patented by Erik Rotheim, a Norwegian chemical engineer.
- Ulster-born engineer Harry Ferguson is granted a British patent for his 'Duplex' hitch linking tractor and plough.
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