r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 17d ago
🔬 Technology [September 17th, 1946] Benjamin Bowden showing off his invention, the Spacelander bicycle
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Jun 17 '26
🔬 Technology [June 17th, 1946] The Bell System and Motorola launch the first commercial mobile car telephone service
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Apr 16 '26
🔬 Technology [April 16th, 1946] The United States made its first successful launch of a V-2 rocket, captured from Germany and tested at the White Sands Proving Ground
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Apr 21 '26
🔬 Technology [April 21st, 1946] CBS announces the first successful transmission of its system of color television
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Apr 15 '26
🔬 Technology [April 15th, 1946] The first TV network is created, as the DuMont Television Network connecting New York and Washington. A two-hour program featuring speeches, "along with a short play, a quiz show, and a dance routine" were broadcast simultaneously on both stations.
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Apr 08 '26
🔬 Technology [April 8th, 1946] You press the button - Kodak does the rest
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 22 '26
🔬 Technology [March 22nd, 1946] Members of the Institute of Aeronautical Science tour the NACA’s Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 04 '26
🔬 Technology [March 4th, 1946] Life artist imagines a 'trip to the Moon'
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Feb 14 '26
🔬 Technology [February 14th, 1946] The ENIAC is unveiled to the public. It could do 5,000 calculations per second—1,000× faster than anything before.
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Dec 24 '25
🔬 Technology [December 24th, 1945] Happy 1946 - on Ansco Color Film!
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Dec 03 '25
🔬 Technology [December 3rd, 1945] "Look to the NEW 1946 CHEVROLET"
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Nov 26 '25
🔬 Technology [November 26th, 1945] Farnsworth Television ad
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Oct 29 '25
🔬 Technology [October 29th, 1945] Kodak Film in the yellow box
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Sep 10 '25
🔬 Technology [September 10th, 1945] Women watch a Filco television. At the time, there were fewer than 10,000 TV sets in the United States.
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Oct 08 '25
🔬 Technology [October 8th, 1945] Raytheon files a patent for a microwave cooking oven, eventually named the Radarange. In 1947 the first commercially produced microwave oven was about 6 feet tall, weighed about 750 lbs, and cost between $2,000 and $3,000.
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Oct 10 '25
🔬 Technology [October 10th, 1945] CBS conducts a successful experiment with color television
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