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Credit Card
The first credit card was made in 1950. It was invented by Ralph Schneider, Frank McNamara, Matty Simmon. This card allowed member to charge the cost of restaurant bills only. -
Colored TV
CBS was the one to instroduce the colored TV. You could only watch TV in black and white. Selling the colored TV's was difficult the in 1970 it started to boom. -
Passenger Jets
In the 1950's passengers jets entered the sevice for people. It was called the boeing 707. The boeing became most successful of it early manufactuers. -
Hydrogen Bomb
The Hydrogen bomb was made by Edward Teller. They tested the bomb at Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States an advantage in the Soviet Union. -
Polio Vaccine
Dr. Jonah Salk devolped the vaccine. This helped people prevent the disease that would put them in a wheel chair. Now days the Polio cases are very rare. -
Nuclear Submarine
Cornelis Drebbel intvented and lauched the nuclear submarine. The Submarine was lauched in Groton, Connecticut. It helped fight in the World War 2. -
automattic doors
Inventor D. Horton ad Lew Hewitt created it. They invented it becasue of the difficulty people had opening the doors. These doors will open when some aperson would enter or leave the sensors that were in the doors. -
microwave oven
This oven was large, expensive, and had a power of 1600 watts. Engine Dr.Percy LeBaron Spencer. It was called the 1661 Radarange. -
Transmiter radio
This radio was invented by Regency division and Texas Instiments. It was useful for phone companies and scientist and building cumputers. It was good for music and information became portable. -
Pollypropylene
It was invented by an Italian chemist Giulio Natta. This helped people climb mountains without the rope breaking. The is technology because it changed the way we climb -
Solar Battery
R.S. Ohl discovered that sunlight striking a wafer of silicon. could produce large numbers of free electrons. Three sientist created an array of several strips of sillicon and placed them into the sun, and it had free electrons that it let them use. They ended up calling it the first solar battery. -
TV Remote
Eugene J. Polley invented the first wireless Tv remote. This device made the cost of a tv go up $100. The TV originally cost $500 in 1955. -
Ultrasound
Ultrasounds were used in clinical perposes. This didn't become common until late 1950s. Hospitals in the US and Britten adoptied the machines. -
Video Tape Recorder
Charles Ginsburg lead a group to invent the first video tape recorder. Ampex sold the first VTR in 1956 for $50,000. This allowed to capture live images. -
3-D
These created allosions that people have never seen before. You had to were special goggles to see the allusion. The older people were so exited to have this. -
Satellite
The called the satllite Sputnik. It was sucessfully placed in orbit around Earth. The satllite was visible at night from the ground. -
Birth conrol pills
The pill was only used for severe menstral disorders. They helped prevent pregnensey now days. They were 50 cents a pill back then (that was enough to buy a pig.) -
Fortran
It provied support for programing. It allowed programers to create funtions. It lead to many computer manufactures to make thier own version. -
Microchip
Invinted by an engeneer, Jack Kilby. Without this chip we wouldn't ne able to use person computer and internet. There was a story in New York Times about how amazing it was. -
Copy Machine
It was the first sucessful plain paper photo copier. It weighed 648 pounds. It made 136 copies per hour. They shipped it with a fire extinguisher in case it got to hot.
