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Welcome to the decade of Rock 'n Roll, drive-ins and McCarthyism. An America flush with cash and terrified of the "Red Menace" defines the inventions of the 1950s. Featured inventions include: the transistor radio, Sputnik, the flight data recorder, the Breath-a-Lyzer, and the hovercraft.
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Hashima Hasan’s love for space started at the age of five. She was standing in her grandparents’ backyard in Lucknow, India watching Sputnik go by overhead. Her ultimate goal to work for NASA materialized in 1994 when she joined NASA Headquarters to manage missions and research programs in astrophysics. Part of the "Women@NASA" series.
What if the source codes for the Internet had remained with the U.S. military rather than being released to the world? How did civilians gain unfettered access to the Internet? Three key events contributed to the development of this modern technology: the launch of Sputnik, the United States military conducts an ambitious project, and computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invents the web and puts the very first Internet site on line. Part of the "Butterfly Effect" series.
