 USS Nautilus...first nuclear sub launched in 1951 |
 USS Forrestal...largest ship every built.. comissioned October, 1955 |
 First B-52 Bomber delivered to SAC (Strategic Air Command) June 1955 (Right)...H-bomb fireball is over 4 miles wide and a thousand times more powerful than an A-bomb |
 First 15 megaton H-Bomb Test in March 1954 |
 U.S.S.R. places "Sputnik" satellite in orbit (Oct-1957) |
 U.S. answers with launch of satellite 'Explorer' (Jan-1958) |
| Notes...Sputnik burns up within a year | Explorer is still in orbit...but retired years ago |
 Above- "Eniac" the worlds first digital computer is retired after 10 years of crunching numbers for our military. Right- IBM introduces first hard disk drive.. |
 Ramac held 5 million bytes using a stack of 50 platters, weighs a ton and costs over $100K |
| Note...Your desktop PC holds a chip the size of a dime and performs the work of over a thousand Eniac's...It's disk is the size of a deck of playing cards, has ten thousand times the data capacity and costs a fraction of the original IBM Ramac. More Computer Storage Comparisons |
 GM introduces Corvette convertible |
 55 Chevy... |
 Ford answers with "55" Thunderbird |
 55 Buick... |
 55 Olds... |
 55 Cad with new tail fins |
 Founded in 1955... |
 Opens in 1955... |
 Starts franchising in 1957 |
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Note...McDonalds & KFC founders were 55 and 65 years old when they started these businesses,
and IBM's CEO is 75 as he takes the company into the computer business. |
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