Timeline February 1935

Events in February 1935 6

• 1929 – 1935 The fast rescue boats Plymouth and Bridlington Lawrence spent his last RAF years developing high-speed marine craft for rescuing ditched aircrew, testing hulls himself. The 200 Class seaplane tender he helped refine saved many lives in the next war — work he valued more than anything he did in Arabia.
• 1935 Prontosil antibacterial published Gerhard Domagk reports the first sulfa drug Gerhard Domagk published his finding that the dye Prontosil cured streptococcal infections in mice. It was the first commercially available antibacterial drug and began the era of sulfonamides.
• 1935 – 1998 Sonny Bono (1935-1998) Died 5 January 1998, aged 62 Sonny Bono, singer and later a US Congressman from California, died in a skiing accident at Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe on 5 January 1998. He had risen to fame in the 1960s as half of the duo Sonny & Cher before entering politics.
• 1935 Daventry radar experiment Radio waves detect an aircraft Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins showed that radio waves reflected from a bomber could be detected, using the BBC transmitter at Daventry. The result led directly to Britain's Chain Home radar network.
• 1935 He leaves the RAF Bridlington, United Kingdom Discharged at 46 with no plans, he cycled to Clouds Hill and wrote to a friend that he felt like a leaf fallen from a tree.
• 1935 Nylon first synthesised Wallace Carothers produces nylon 6,6 at DuPont DuPont chemist Wallace Carothers and his team first produced nylon 6,6, the first fully synthetic fibre to become a commercial success. It went on sale in toothbrushes and stockings a few years later.