- 1950
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1950:
Regular color television transmission.
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1950:
Vidicon camera tube improves television picture.
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1950:
Changeable typewriter typefaces in use.
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1950:
A.C. Nielsen's Audimeters track viewer watching.
- 1951
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1951:
One and a half million TV sets in U.S., a tenfold jump in one
year.
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1951:
Cinerama will briefly dazzle with a wide, curved screen and three
projectors.
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1951:
Computers are sold commercially.
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1951:
Still camera get built-in flash units.
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1951:
Coaxial cable reaches coast to coast.
- 1952
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1952:
3-D movies offer thrills to the audience.
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1952:
Bing Crosby's company tests video recording.
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1952:
Wide-screen Cinerama appears; other systems soon follow.
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1952:
Sony offers a miniature transistor radio.
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1952:
EDVAC takes computer technology a giant leap forward.
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1952:
Univac projects the winner of the presidential election on
CBS.
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1952:
Telephone area codes.
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1952:
Zenith proposes pay-TV system using punched cards.
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1952:
Sony offers a miniature transistor radio.
- 1953
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1953:
NTSC color standard adopted.
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1953:
CATV system uses microwave to bring in distant signals.
- 1954
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1954:
U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik.
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1954:
Radio sets in the world now outnumber newspapers printed
daily.
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1954:
Regular color TV broadcasts begin.
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1954:
Sporting events are broadcast live in color.
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1954:
Radio sets in the world now outnumber daily newspapers.
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1954:
Transistor radios are sold.
- 1955
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1955:
Tests begin to communicate via fiber optics.
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1955:
Music is recorded on tape in stereo.
- 1956
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1956:
Ampex builds a practical videotape recorder.
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1956:
Bell tests the picture phone.
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1956:
First transatlantic telephone calls by cable.
- 1957
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1957:
Soviet Union's Sputnik sends signals from space.
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1957:
FORTRAN becomes the first high-level language.
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1957: A
surgical operation is televised.
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1957:
First book to be entirely phototypeset is offset
printed.
- 1958
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1958:
Videotape delivers color.
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1958:
Stereo recording is introduced.
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1958:
Data moves over regular phone circuits.
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1958:
Broadcast bounced off rocket, pre-satellite communication.
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1958:
The laser.
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1958:
Cable carries FM radio stations.
- 1959
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1959:
Local announcements, weather data and local ads go on cable.
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1959:
The microchip is invented.
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1959:
Xerox manufactures a plain paper copier.
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1959:
Bell Labs experiments with artificial intelligence.
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1959:
French SECAM and German PAL systems introduced.