1950's inventions

  • First Video Tape Recorder

    First Video Tape Recorder

    Charles Ginsberg, an researcher at Ampex Corporation, invented the videotape recorder in 1951. The contraption worked by taking live images from cameras and converting them into electrical impulses stored on magnetic tape. Ampex sold the first video tape recorder for $50,000 in 1956.
  • The First TV Broadcast With Color

    The First TV Broadcast With Color

    The first commercial network television broadcast in color in the United States occurred over the CBS field-sequential color television system, when a musical variety special titled Premiere was shown over a network of five East Coast CBS affiliates.
  • The first 3-D Movie

    The first 3-D Movie

    The First movie to use 3D glasses
    Movie description: Big-game hunters are called in when two man-eating lions disrupt the construction of an African railroad.
  • Black Box Flight Recorder

    Black Box Flight Recorder

    In 1954 Dr David Warren first came up with the idea of a device that would record not only flight data but also voices and other sounds in aircraft cockpits immediately prior to a crash.

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