1950's Science and Technology | Important Events in Science and Technology, 1950–1959

1950

• 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.

1951

• 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...