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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“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)