Repeaters on phone lines quiet long distance call noise. Harvard's Mark I, first digital computer, put in service. Clarke envisions geo-synchronous communication satellites. Jukeboxes go into mass production. Automobile radio telephones connect to telephone network.
French engineers build a phototypesetting machine.
Hungarian engineer in England invents holography. The transistor is invented, will replace vacuum tubes. The LP record arrives on a viny disk. Airplane re-broadcasts TV signal across nine states. RCA offers the 45 rpm record.