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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 19, 2017 15:17:02 GMT
I asked this on the IMDb History board, and I'll ask it again here.
What are your favourite inventions of the 1950s?
This can include:
Inventions invented and introduced in the 1950s;
Inventions invented prior to the 1950s, but came to greater use in the 1950s (such as television);
Inventions invented in the 1950s, but came to greater use in a later decade (such as satellites)
Some of my favourites include: television, cinemascope, the vaccine for polio, space rockets/satellites, and believe it or not, the first computer games (such as "Tennis for Two") began as experiments in the 1950s, though it would be years before the invention reached the commercial market.
(yes, I have a lot threads on this board, but I keep coming up with thread ideas. I'm surprised this board is so slow, given the vast range of possible topics).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 15:25:17 GMT
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 - 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.
The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver
Sony, a brand new Japanese company, introduces the first pocket-sized transistor radio
1953 - Radial tires invented.
The first 3-D movie is shown: Arch Oboler’s Bwana Devil, starring Robert Stack.
1954 - The first nonstick pan produced.
1955 - 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 hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
As a result of the joint research of Sherman and Smith, the Scotchgard™ Protector was launched in the marketplace
Secretary Bette Nesmith Graham invented “Mistake Out” later renamed, Liquid Paper
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.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 19, 2017 17:35:53 GMT
Wow, didn't know AA batteries were already around then! Being both a gamer and a user of 1980s cameras I'm rather addicted to AA batteries!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 17:48:31 GMT
Yeah I was surprised as well. It basically means that the batteries were around before there was anything to use them in!
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 19, 2017 18:01:31 GMT
Yeah I was surprised as well. It basically means that the batteries were around before there was anything to use them in! AA batteries used to be known as "penlight" batteries. I come across the term in old camera manuals. I guess they were mainly flashlight batteries in those days (maybe also used in transistor radios? Can anyone confirm this?). |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 18:59:28 GMT
Yeah I was surprised as well. It basically means that the batteries were around before there was anything to use them in! AA batteries used to be known as "penlight" batteries. I come across the term in old camera manuals. I guess they were mainly flashlight batteries in those days (maybe also used in transistor radios? Can anyone confirm this?). Yeah they were, I'm old enough to have heard the term growing up. |
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Mar 12, 2017 8:00:13 GMT
I asked this on the IMDb History board, and I'll ask it again here.
What are your favourite inventions of the 1950s?
This can include:
Inventions invented and introduced in the 1950s;
Inventions invented prior to the 1950s, but came to greater use in the 1950s (such as television);
Inventions invented in the 1950s, but came to greater use in a later decade (such as satellites)
Some of my favourites include: television, cinemascope, the vaccine for polio, space rockets/satellites, and believe it or not, the first computer games (such as "Tennis for Two") began as experiments in the 1950s, though it would be years before the invention reached the commercial market.
(yes, I have a lot threads on this board, but I keep coming up with thread ideas. I'm surprised this board is so slow, given the vast range of possible topics).
I don't know about favourite, but if I was to think of most important, four come to mind. The LEO Computer, probably the first commercial computer, which just sneaked into the 1950s. Late 1951. While there were several hand-built boxes of valves and wires used by scientists for various things, a couple even adhering to what we would define as a computer, one with input and output, and with a programmable interface, the LEO, based upon EDSAC was built for a business and several were built and sold commercially, signalling the death-knell of the office sector as we knew it then. The laser, a variant of the maser is now ubiquitous, from hi-fi music recording and playback to high speed data communications and accurate measurements in many technical and scientific areas. The polio vaccine was mentioned, and while not innovative as there were other vaccines developed prior to the polio vaccines, the Salk and then the Sabin vaccines were the first to herald a huge change in community medicine, with vaccines now wiping out two scourges (polio-almost and smallpox) and substantially reducing the incidence of many other diseases. Sputnik. Moon exploration, Mars and solar system exploration, GPS, satellite phones, satellite TV, global communication. |
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 19, 2017 19:25:07 GMT
Topps baseball cards premiered in 1952. The premier card in the set is the Mickey Mantle rookie card. Worth around $50K in perfect condition.
The Iconic Ford Edsel came about around 1957.
Daisy air rifles for kids.
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