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Technology of 1954
Jonas Salk begins the mass inoculation of polio vaccine nationwide. It consists of one big "booster" shot and 3 subsequent injections. Doctors chase millions of children around their offices for two years.
Jonas Salk.
A meteorite crashes through the roof of a rural Sylacauga , Alabama home and hits the occupant Liz Hodges. The only person ever hit by the sky. Liz Hodges.
The United States Air Force Academy is opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The first nuclear submarine the USS Nautilus, is commissioned.
Regency TR-1 - The first transistor radio in introduced to the public by Texas Instruments. It has an radio. It comes with earpieces for personal listening. Regency TR-1
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