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The Innovative 50’s

Forget the swinging 60’s and the psychedelic 70’s the 1950’s were the most innovative and influential decade by far.

While teenagers were dancing along to the innovative rock and roll on the radio, innovative furniture designers such as Eames and Jacobsen could be seen in selective households. Whereas, kitchens across the UK were entertaining new innovative technologies such as fridge freezers, which unbeknown was to influence modern day cooking and bring domestic bliss!

The purpose of this blog is so we can see how the inventions look now compared to back then. Take radio for instance from the cumbersome wireless with huge amps, to the development of the transistor and the beginning of mobile radio …… now think to the radio in your house today, perhaps you have DAB and access to hundreds of radio channels or even listen to the radio through your mobile phone or playback missed shows on your laptop..

A lot different to the first radio and this is why innovation captures me.

It is exciting to see it over the years evolve, taking one thing and constantly exploring and adapting, modifying and pushing emerging technological boundaries.

“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.” Albert Einstein

As I keep mentioning innovation is not invention but without the inventions you would not have seen devices which empowered women to have more time away from the domestic chores, you wouldn’t have listened to rock stars and of course wouldn’t be reading this article on-line!

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Elizabeth Shaw .