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1953-1954

 

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1953-1954

Students Receiving their issue of the '53-'54 Tornado Trail

Historical notes from 1954:

  • First atomic-power submarine, U.S.S. Nautilus, launched at Groton, Conn.
  • First launching of a three-stage rocket vehicle consisting of two Nike boosters
    in tandem and a Deacon Rocket.
  • Bell Laboratory announces invention of the silicon solar battery.
  • The first voice earth-to-earth messages are sent using the moon as a reflector of radio signals.
  • IBM demonstrates the first large transistorized calculator.
  • Texas Instruments produces the first commercial silicon transistor.
  • Magnetic tape is demonstrated fro recording television pictures by RCA.

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Best Picture-

"On The Waterfront"

Best Song-

"Three Coins In A" Fountain

 

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