Favourite inventions of the 1950s?

The television

Since I was just listening to one of my favorite albums by Rush 'Signals' and reminiscing about all the pleasure that the various synthesizers have given me over the years.

1953

The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA -Though part of the history of electronic music, the RCA was hardly ever used. Made to United States Air Force construction specifications (and even sporting a USAF oscilloscope), its operating electronics were constructed entirely out of vacuum tubes, making the machine obsolete by its tenth birthday, having been surpassed by more reliable (and affordable) solid state modular synthesizers such as the Buchla and Moog modular synthesizer systems. It was prohibitively expensive to replicate, and an RCA Mark III, though conceived of by Belar and Olsen, was never constructed. Nor was RCA long for the synthesizer business, prompting Columbia to purchase enough spare parts to build two duplicate synthesizers

(Also necessary- 1958-Sterophonic recordings, which use two separately recorded channels of sound to recreate a sense of space, come into commercial use).


That is for myself, umm for the good of humanity I would probably say when Salk announced the polio vaccine in 1953,

Although I am quite sure there were quite a few people outthere who creamed themselves when General Electric introduced colored kitchen appliances in 1954-LOL

In the USA three foot square would be 1 x 3....do you actually mean three foot squared ? Three by three ?

-egg McMuffin.
-bikini swimming suit.
-jet plane
-plastic dashes

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Rock n' Roll.

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