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Pages in category "Products introduced in 1948" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), [1] was the first electronic stored-program computer.It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.
The year 1948 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy and space science. February 16 ...
In-n-Out Burger claims to have built the first drive-through restaurant in 1948. Harry and Esther Snyder, the chain's founders, built their first restaurant in Baldwin Park, California, with a two-way speaker to enable patrons to order directly from their cars without the intermediation of a carhop.
1948: The first atomic clock is developed at the National Bureau of Standards. 1948: Basic oxygen steelmaking is developed by Robert Durrer . The majority of steel manufactured in the world is produced using the basic oxygen furnace; in 2000, it accounted for 60% of global steel output.
October 1 – National Guard Bureau made a Bureau of the Department of the United States Army and an Agency of the Dept. of the Air Force. October 8 – WMAQ-TV first airs in Chicago. October 11 – The Cleveland Indians defeat the Boston Braves to win the World Series, 4 games to 2.
1948 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1948th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 948th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1940s decade.
Mountain Dew also sponsors its own namesake festival, "The Dew Tour", which is an action sports tour made up of events held in five U.S. cities over several months. [77] The first Dew Tour was held in the summer of 2005 with events in skateboarding , BMX and Freestyle Motocross .