American Decades

Important Events in Science and Technology, 1950–1959

Commercial color transmission of CBS television "Color-cast," starring Ed Sullivan and Arthur Godfrey.
The Sulzer weaving machine begins modern commercial production of cloth using an automatic loom.
In January, inventor George Eastman develops a method to use regular movie cameras to produce color movies. Before this, only Technicolor cameras produced color movies.
On March 29, RCA demonstrates the first electronic color television tube.
In November, dairy scientists implant an embryo in the uterus of a cow at the University of Wisconsin.

The first 3-D movies are produced.
The first transcontinental television transmission is broadcast from the United States.
In February, American mathematician Dirk Brouwer uses a computer to predict the orbits of the nine planets in our solar system.
In February, Du Pont produces Orlon, a...

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