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The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II , aided by the post-World War II economic expansion .
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant technological inventions and their inventors, ... 1950: Bertie the Brain, ...
1950 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the ... German entrepreneur, who invented the coffee filter in 1908 (b. 1873) July
The concept of flying cars has been a longstanding vision of the future … and the first flying cars were invented in the 1950s. Perhaps the most famous flying car prototype was the Aerocar ...
Hungarian-British physicist Dennis Gabor invented holography. 1950s: Solid electrolyte tantalum capacitor was invented by Bell Laboratories. 1950: French physicist Alfred Kastler invented the MASER. 1951: First nuclear power plant in the US 1952: Japanese engineer Jun-ichi Nishizawa invented the avalanche photodiode [20] 1953
In May 1981, William A. Brastad was awarded a patent for a product he invented three years earlier. His invention, the microwave popcorn bag, incorporated kernels, butter, and spices in a folded ...
The first Little People toy, "Looky Fire Truck," was introduced in 1950, and it sold so well, the company introduced the "Super-Jet" and "Racing Rowboat." BUY NOW Getty
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century;