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Steve Essex
·The UK tested its first H bomb.
What was going on in 1957
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Canuck
·Durward Kirby was the tv personality who introduced the Hamilton Ventura Electric in (IIRC) January of 1957.
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X350 XJR
··Vintage Omega AficionadoThat’s right! And the first year of fuel injection in the Corvette!
Indeed, but bigger than that same Rochester fuel injection was also available on the 1957 Bel Air a far more attainable mainstream car, not just the stuff of sports cars.
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X350 XJR
··Vintage Omega Aficionado1957 Ford Skyliner, first production retractable hardtop.
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gemini4
··Hoarder Of Speed et aliaAny Milwaukee Braves fans wanna chime in?
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nonuffinkbloke
·I was invented in 1957! 😕
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Huus
·In '56 I was a twinkle in my dad's eye, in '57 my time started.😉
And did time fly.
And did time fly.
I was invented in 1957! 😕
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davy26
·The arrival of a further developed Vanwall Grand Prix car - the VW5. As a seven year old I was captivated by it, impressed by what seemed a super-modern shape, and, (as was still 'allowed' in those days), proud of it being an English enterprise able to compete with the Italian and German manufacturers. It was the thing that turned me into a motor racing nut, an affliction I still suffer, despite the efforts of today's F1 rule-makers to rob the sport of so much of the driver-centric and technologically diverse character that abounded in dear old '57.
BTW, most of us were also big Eagle (comic) fans back then, and some of us lucky enough to own a Dan Dare watch; here's mine:
BTW, most of us were also big Eagle (comic) fans back then, and some of us lucky enough to own a Dan Dare watch; here's mine:
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorIBM delivers the first compiler for the FORTRAN scientific programming language. It becomes the most widely used computer language for technical work.
First Frisbee Toy
First Nuclear Reactor plant
First Frisbee Toy
First Nuclear Reactor plant
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Canuck
·First flight of the Boeing 707, December 1957. A landmark event in the automotive world. Ford introduced the 1958 EDSEL in September, 1957. March 1957, John Lennon forms a skiffle group at his high school. Originally called Blackjacks, the name was changed to the Quarrymen.
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TimeODanaos
·So I am a historian by education (architectural historian to be specific), but like all historians we learn to follow threads and connect dots. There have been times in our history that changed paradigms (including the coining of the term “paradigm” and exploration of understanding scientific revolution versus evolution in the Book Structures of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn in 1962).
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Any scientific/ technology historians here that can shed light on what was going on during this post-war period that led to an almost simultaneous release of new technologies around the globe? I find the timing around the specific year- 1957, very intersting.
Really interesting thread, thanks for this. But as a proper historian, you know of course that any given year is a mere social construct, and any year you pick will have features that are notable - i.e. there's always a need to guard against selection bias and confirmation bias. But yes, there are always trends and movements that sometimes appear to culminate in specific "events", and we can label e.g. 1968 and 1989 in a similar fashion. My 2c is that what we (or rather, my parents and others) saw at the end of the 50s was the product of a lot of moving parts over a decade following WW2, as military technologies, innovators, and funding gradually became re-purposed to civilian (or at least less immediately military) ends. Aircraft fans will be familiar with this, e.g. the astonishing flowering of British aerospace technology, which unfortunately declined when it eventually ran into financial realities in the 60s. And as Philip Larkin memorably pointed out in the cultural sphere, a lot of attitudes had changed by the end of 1963! 📖
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Professor
·Wasn't 1957 when Hamilton introduced the first electric watch?
PS
1957 was the year my first automobile came out. A 57 Chevy station wagon. The color scheme became known as Lard Can Blue.
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Pun
·International Geophysical Year.
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Vercingetorix
··Spam RiskOr was it in 1958?
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Noted Sir. Thanks
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Professor
·First human testing of Salk's polio vaccine.
