atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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rise in public television broadcasting
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transistor developed by Bell Labs as the first
alternative to the vacuum tube
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Wiesner with Dr. Y.W. Lee invents auto-correlator, a device
used to decrease radar and radio noise
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Soviets test an atomic bomb
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North Korea invades South Korea
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UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer, is delivered
to the U.S. Bureau of the Census
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Merleau-Ponty, "Phenomenologie de la Perception"
Schrodinger, "What Is Life"
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network TV begins in the U.S.
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television viewing in the U.S. surpasses radio
listening in daily hours per household
radio audience enters decade-long decline to half
its size by decade's end
long decline in movie attendance begins
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