Technologies+inventions+and+discoveries

Squeeze plastic bottles for toiletries. Underwater camera with fins and rudder, the 35-mm French Eclair Aquaflex. Radio paging service—Aircall—in New York City. GE robot mechanism for handling radioactive materials. First gas-turbine automobile, from Rover. F-86 U.S. sweep-wing fighter. Squeezit plastic bottles for food and household items. Air-conditioning unit in 1953 Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles. Three-color traffic light in New York City eliminating the 3.5-second dark period between the red and green. Portable clock-radio with long-life batteries. Hydraulic-lift ambulance for large airplanes. Tetracycline, which will become one of the world's most widely prescribed antibiotics. Miltown, one of the first tranquillizers, later found to be addictive. Industrial-quality synthetic diamonds from GE Fast 35-mm Ektachrome from Kodak. Experimental automaticket in 60 New York Central railroad stations. 15-inch sun-powered automobile model from GM. Crystallization of an animal virus. Test of the Rolls-Royce Vertijet, the first aircraft able to shift from vertical to horizontal flight. Test flight of the French Mach 2 fighter Mirage. Motorized go-carts, in Los Angeles. Electric can opener. Electric portable typewriter weighing 19 pounds from Smith-Corona, $197. Auto-pilot from Chrysler, later called cruise control. Bifocal contact lenses, with distant vision in the center. Ski-Doo snowmobile from Joseph-Armand Bombardier in Quebec. First U.S.-produced rear-engine car, the Chevrolet Corvair. Telephone cable between North America and Europe.

1951 1952
 * 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. ||
 * || UNIVAC 1 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. ||  ||   ||
 * || Mr. Potato Head patented. ||
 * || 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. ||
 * || 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
 * || Oral contraceptives invented. ||
 * || 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 Scotchgard™ 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. ||