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1951
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1951
1.5 million television sets in US
launch of commercial radio in Japan
Cinerama
Wang Laboratories founded
still cameras get built-in flash units
coaxial cable reaches coast to coast in the US
André Deutsch founded
Peter Owen founded
Australian Financial Review
Treaty of Paris establishes European Coal & Steel
Community
1952
Bing Crosby's company tests video recording
Nixdorf Computer founded
US government sues IBM for monopolizing punched-card machine
industry
Sony produces first transistor
radios
Univac projects the winner of the presidential election
on CBS
Zenith proposes pay-TV system using punched cards
est. 22m television sets in US homes
1953
Anne Blaine and Gilbert Harrison buy The New Republic
1954
Hubert Beuve-Mery founds Le
Monde diplomatique
1955
first issue of TV Guide
Axel Springer buys Die Welt
launch of commercial TV in Japan
Fairfax grabs Associated Newspapers
National Cash Register enters computer market through
purchase of Computer Research Corporation
1954
Village Roadshow media group
founded
Television Act establishes UK Independent Television Authority
(ITA)
FORTRAN created by John Backus
IBM markets 650 computer, using drum storage
USSR launches Sputnik
regular colour TV broadcasts begin in the US
TV ad revenue exceeds radio revenue in US for first time
Robert Borkenstein patents breathalyser
1955
NBC
president David Sarnoff says "Television will never be
a medium of entertainment"
Disneyland opened
Howard Hughes splits RKO into RKO
Theatres and RKO Pictures (sold to General Teleradio for
US$25m)
EMI buys Capitol Records in US
launch of L'Espresso
Remington-Rand & Sperry Gyroscope merge as Sperry-Rand
rebranding sees start of Marlboro Man campaign
first fluoride toothpaste, Crest
music recorded on tape in stereo
US record sales reach US$277m pa
1956
television broadcasting in Australia
Granada TV starts broadcasting
in UK
first transatlantic telephone cable
television in 71% of US households
first hard disk drive at IBM
IBM settles punch card dispute through DOJ consent decree
Australia's SILLIAC and UTECOM computers go live
Ampex builds practical videotape recorder
Bell Labs tests picture phone
first transatlantic telephone calls by cable
term 'artificial intelligence' devised
first use of "Elvis has left the building"
Burroughs Adding Machine Company enters computer market
through purchase of Electrodata
1957
Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community
Control Data Corporation formed
Digital Equipment (DEC) formed
National Opinion Polls (NOP) founded in UK
Mirisch Company founded
Soviet Union's Sputnik sends signals from space
Taft buys Hanna-Barbera Productions
first Japanese car sold in US
FORTRAN becomes first high-level computer language
UNIVAC II marketed
Sony TR63 is first pocket transistor radio
surgical operation is televised
Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders
Chomsky's Syntactic Structures
first book to be entirely phototypeset is offset printed
1958
US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency founded
Minsky founds AI Lab at MIT
Warner Bros records formed
UNIMATE is first industrial robot
colour videotape recording
Fairfax buys Norton's Truth &
Sportsman (inc Daily Mirror)
laser invented at Bell Labs
integrated circuit
cable carries FM radio stations
Galbraith's The Affluent Society
Bank of America launches first US credit card
AT&T markets first modems
1959
local ads go on cable TV in the US
Xerox's first automatic paper copier
"A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play"
French SECAM and German PAL television systems
first packaged program sold by Computer Science Corporation
Advance buys Conde Nast magazine
group
Axel Springer buys majority of Ullstein
AG
Grundy Productions founded in Australia
Tisch brothers buy Loews cinema
chain from MGM
US record sales reach US$600m pa
1960
computer industry has first billion dollar year
IBM markets 1401 computer
UNIVAC III marketed
6,000 computers in operation in US
est. 60m television sets in US homes
Echo I, US balloon in orbit, reflects radio signals to
Earth
Zenith tests subscription TV in the US
David & Charles founded
Murdoch buys Sydney Daily Mirror
Sullivan v New York Times in US
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