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1950
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1951
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1952
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IRE Professional Group on
Communications Systems is formed.
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1953
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John Pierce proposes deep
space communication.
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1954
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US Air Force's SAGE system
sets precedent for computer
communications, including use of modems.
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1955
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Recorded announcements of
disconnected and changed numbers begin
to be used in some small
dial offices.
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1956
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The Bell System and the
British Post Office inaugurates service
on a transatlantic telephone
cable, TAT-1.
The 1956 Nobel Prize in
Physics is awarded to the inventors of
the transistor: Dr. Walter
H. Brattain, Dr. John Bardeen and Dr.
William Shockley.
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1957
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Soviet Union launches
Sputnik, humanity's first artificial
satellite, on 5 October.
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1958
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Jack S. Kilby and Robert
Noyce independently invent an Integrated Circuit.
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1959
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