Technology
- The first accurate atomic clock, a caesium standard based on a certain transition of the caesium-133 atom, is built by Louis Essen with J.V.L. Parry at the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom).
- Strömsund Bridge in Sweden completed, the first significant cable-stayed bridge of the modern era.
- Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral is granted a patent for the Velcro fabric hook-and-loop fastener.
- American electrical engineer Eugene Polley invents the Zenith Flash-Matic, the first wireless television remote control.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)