Technology of the 50’sPacemaker

Maser/Laser

Microchip

HovercraftWork’s cited page

Matt Brozenick

Pace Maker1959

John Hopps a Canadian inventor created

the first cardiac Pacemaker. He found out

a heart slows and stops due to cooling ,

and it could be started by mechanical or

electrical means.A Pacemaker works by electronically

monitor your heartbeats and when your

heart goes out of beat it sends a small

electrical shock to throw it back in

normal beats.

Micochip1959

Also Known as a Integrated Circuit, It was a thin substrate of semiconductor material used for holding information.

To create it two competing companies owned by Jack Kilby and Robert Novce had to work together and made a company worth over 1 TRILLION dollars and more every day.

Maser / Laser1958

Light

Amplification by the

Stimulated

Emission

RadiationEnstine created a theory of the laser and later it was invented by Charles Towns and Arthur Schowlow and named it maser

Microwave Amplification by

Stimulated

Emission

Radiation

A few things the laser was used for back then was, Laser lighting - Displays for advertising and entertainment, And Laser skin care - Hair removal, acne treatment and other dermatological uses.

Hovercraft1956

Funding from the military Christopher Cockrell invented the Hovercraft in 1956. The first design was tested in 1955 using an empty kitty kat cat food tin can inside a coffee tin, industrial air blower and a pair of kitchen scales.

Sources and other infohttp://inventors.about.com/lib

rary/inventors/blcardiac.htm

http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/laser.htm

http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/intergrated_circuit.htm

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blhovercraft.htm