There were some new technologies in
the fifties. Television was just one of them. In 1950 Paper Mate made it's first leak free ball point pen. The first copy
machine was made 1950 also. The Chevrolet Corvette becomes the first car to have a all-fiberglass body in 1953. In 1954
Bell Telephone labs produce solar battery. In 1954 you could get a yard of contact paper for only 59 cents. Polypropylene
was invented in 1954 . In 1955 Jonas Salk invented a polio vaccine which was given to more than seven million American students.
In 1956 a solar powered wrist watch was invented.
A surprise came in 1957; a 184 pound
satellite was launched by the Russians. They named it Sputnik 1. The space race begins 4 months later the United
States launch a smaller satellite. In 1958 the first plastic Coke bottle appeared.
