Fact of the day:
The word "unfriend" appeared in print all the way back in 1659.
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Words That Are Much Older Than They Seem)
A baby can cost new parents 750 hours of sleep in the first year.
Things to ponder:
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously over looked
something.
Support bacteria -- they're the only culture some people have.
1950s Inventions
For those of you born within the last two decades, your experience with
science and technology is
unique with respect to the speed and frequency of inventions and
innovations.
But it wasn't always so.
We may have thought there were great new things, like colored kitchen
appliances and transistor radios,
but we could not have anticipated the PC, cellphones, DVDs or the like. We
thought it was cool when 78
rpm (rotations per minute) records became 33s. We were astonished when
records could be heard in
stereo.
Here's a list of some of the major inventions and innovations of the
Fifties.
1950
Zenith introduces "lazy bones" tuning - change all television stations from
the comfort of your easy
chair. Hand held device plugs into TV Antihistamines enter popular use for
treatment of allergies and
head-colds.
Leo Fender's guitar company introduced their Broadcaster and Esquire models,
the first mass-produced
solid body electric guitars.
Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories and Western
Electric.
1951
UNIVAC
First commercial computer.
A.E.C. (Atomic Energy Commission) produces electricity from atomic energy.
Super glue invented.
American automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation introduces power
steering., which they called
Hydraguide.
Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
J. Andre-Thomas invents the first heart-lung machine, allowing advanced
life-support during open-heart
surgery.
Still camera gets built-in flash units.
1952
Mr. Potato Head patented.
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The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors
Joseph Woodland and Bernard
Silver American automobile manufacturer Chrysler Corporation introduces
power steering., which they
called Hydraguide.
Sony, a brand new Japanese company, introduces the first pocket-sized
transistor radio
1953
Radial tires invented.
The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA The first 3-D movie is shown:
Arch Oboler's Bwana Devil,
starring Robert Stack.
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Francis Crick and James Watson discover the "double helix" of DNA.
Con-Tact paper debuts
Dr. Jonas Salk announces discovery of the vaccine for poliomyelitis White
Rose Redi-tea is the world's
first instant iced tea Dow Chemical creates Saran Wrap TV color broadcasting
began in 1953
1954
The first nonstick pan produced.
The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
The first successful kidney transplant is performed in the U.S. by Harvard
physicians.
The patient will survive for seven more years.
General Electric introduces colored kitchen appliances. Bye, bye white!
1955
Tetracycline invented.
Optic fiber invented
Zenith engineer Eugene Polley invented the "Flashmatic," which represented
the industry's first wireless
TV remote.
Gregory Pincus develops the first oral contraceptive The first home
microwave ovens are manufactured
by Tappan. They cost $1300 which really slows sales!
1956
The first computer hard disk used.
The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
As a result of the joint research of Sherman and `Smith, the ScotchgardT
Protector was launched in the
marketplace Secretary Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out" later
renamed, Liquid Paper Los
Alamos Laboratory discovers the neutrino, an atomic particle with no
electric charge.
Anti-protons detected in the atmosphere.
The first commercial videotape recorder is introduced. The device is
intended for industrial applications,
and it quickly revolutionizes the way television programming is produced.
1957
Fortran (computer language) invented.
Velcro is patented by George de Mestral of Switzerland.
Eveready produces "AA" size alkaline batteries
1958
The modem invented.
Gordon Gould invents the laser.
The Hula Hoop
invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
Sterophonic recordings, which use two separately recorded channels of sound
to recreate a sense of
space, come into commercial use.
1959
The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch. In 1959 Joseph-Armand
Bombardier of
Valcourt, Quebec, Canada patented the Ski-Doo, originally christened the
Ski-Dog, but renamed because
of a typographical error that Bombardier decided not to change. You know it
as a snowmobile.
http://fiftiesweb.com/pop/inventions/
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