American Decades
Television
Just a Quiet Evening.
After World War II Americans wanted peace, Korea and the cold war notwithstanding, and they found it at night in their living rooms where a few hours of escapism were delivered for free by a new gadget, the television. Television technology allowed transmission of high-quality images, and mass-production techniques meant that sets were available and affordable. But the pictures on those televisions were blackand-white, and industry leaders hoped for more.
Goldmark.
In 1951 a CBS engineer named Peter Goldmark devised a method of color television Broadcasting. The concept of color television is simple. All pictures are transmitted and received as combinations of red, green, and blue. Goldmark's system required a set of whirling red, green, and blue filters placed in front of the camera lens; a similar set of filters inside the television set decoded the color signals. A black-and-white...
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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
