1960: The Scientific/Technological Developments

The technological development for 1960 were in fact that the games were first televised in the United States, so finally people had to opportunity to see their favorites and support their country in the Olympic games. Taped footage of the Games was flown to New York City at the end of each day and broadcast on the CBS television network in the United States and Eurovision provided live television broadcasts throughout Europe.

"Rome 1960 Olympic Games." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2012. <http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/972452/Rome-1960-Olympic-Games>.


SOME OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

• Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh in the bathyscaph USS Trieste break a depth record when they descend to the bottom of Challenger Deep 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) below sea level in the Pacific Ocean
• France tests its first atomic bomb in Sahara and joins US, UK and USSR as Nuclear Power
• Over one hundred million television sets in use worldwide.
• Aluminum Cans used for the first time
• The MOT Test is introduced in Britain
• US Experimental rocket powered airplane travels at 2,200 MPH
• Xerox introduces the first Commercial Document reproduction Machine
• The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.
• Dr Kazuo Hashimoto Invents the Ansafone sold in the USA as a
  Automatic Telephone Answering Machine

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