RCA Laboratories (now part of SRI) brings television to full-color life.
Firsts
Return to the Timeline of innovation.
Color television
Banking automation: ERMA
Easier money counting led to easier money making.
Solar energy
As early as 1955, we saw a viable energy source. And a few dozen patents.
Electrostatic discharge rods
Innovative rods help protect aircraft from potentially dangerous levels of static electricity.
Laser photocoagulation for ophthalmology
A better way to look at eye surgery.
All-magnetic logic computer
Virtually indestructible computer circuitry.
Anti-viral: Vidarabine
Drug originally intended to fight cancer discovered effective against herpes simplex and varicella zoster viruses.
TIROS 1 weather satellite
The world’s first space-based meteorology satellite.
Optical video disk
Optical recording paves the way for first video disk recording/playback system.