American Decades
Publications
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958);
Atomic Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955);
David R. Bates, Space Research and Exploration (New York: W. Sloane, 1958);
The Book of Popular Science (New York: Grolier Society, 1959);
Erik Bergaust, Satellite! (Garden City, N.Y.: Hanover House, 1956);
Edward Callis Berkeley, Computers, Their Operations and Applications (New York: Reinhold, 1956);
Berkeley, Symbolic Logic and Intelligent Machines (New York: Reinhold, 1959);
Franklyn Mansfield Branley, Experiments in Sky Watching (New York: Crowell, 1959);
Andrew Donald Booth, Automation and Computing (New York: Macmillan, 1958);
Otis W. Caldwell, Everyday Science (Boston: Ginn, 1952);
Groff Conklin, ed., Science Fiction Thinking Machines (New York: Vanguard,...
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1950's Science and Technology
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Chromosome Number in Humans
- Communication
- The Computer Comes of Age
- Computer Predicts Election
- Computer Technology: Evolving Science
- Cyclotron/Bevatron
- DNA
- Dental Drills: High Speed and Painless (More or Less)
- Fossil Dating
- H-Bomb
- ICBM
- Jets
- Mapping the Ocean Floor
- Maser/Laser
- The Microwave Oven
- The New Frontier
- Nuclear Submarines
- Oral Contraceptives
- Radio Astronomy
- Radioimmunoassay
- The Saint Lawrence Seaway
- Sex Change
- Telephones in the Age of Technology
- Television
- Transatlantic Cable
- The Transistor
- Women in Science and Technology
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Science and Technology, 1950–1959
