1950 Technology

Video Tape Recorder

1951

Inventor: Charles Ginsburg The history of recording television signals and broadcasts on tapes started after the second world war and has changed and improved television broadcasting since then.

Wireless Television Remote

1955

Inventor: Eugene Polley
The first television remote control was invented in 1950 by Zenith Radio Corporation. It was called lazy bone as it can be operated from a distance and is capable of switching the television on and off. It can also change channels, but it is a wired connected remote control. The wire connects the remote to the television.

Artificial Pacemaker

1956

Inventor: Wilson Greatbatch
An artificial pacemaker is a medical implement used to stimulate the heart by replicating the action of a natural pacemaker. It was invented in 1956 by Wilson Greatbatch. This pacemaker is a special invention, because of its size and understory.

Integrating Circuit

1958

Inventors: Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby
Jack initially built a solid circuit, the size of 11 by 1.5mm.
Another inventor, named Robert Noyce worked with his colleagues in California to develop unitary circuits. He wrote a detailed application for his patent, and both patents were granted. Jack Kilby was later awarded a Nobel Prize in the year 2000 for his invention.

Microchip

1959

Inventor: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
A microchip is a small device, smaller than the fingernail, and it contains an integrating circuit in a microprocessor. The microchip was invented a year after the integrating circuit was invented by the same inventors, Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.