1950s
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12:09I promise this story about microwaves is interesting.
9M views • 5 years ago
Tom Scott
Tom Scott investigates the claim that the microwave was invented to heat hamsters, and interviews James Lovelock about freezing and microwave-thawing hamsters in the 1950s. It traces early magnetron uses beyond radar.
17:49How Japan Learned Semiconductors
228K views • 4 years ago
Asianometry
Asianometry traces the 30-year rise and peak of Japan's semiconductor industry from the 1950s to the 1980s, covering how a postwar country gained competence in an emerging technology.
17:24The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!
1.8M views • 6 years ago
Technology Connections
Technology Connections explains how touch lamps work and traces them back through patents to the 1950s, far earlier than most people assume.