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==Technology== * June 26 β [[Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant]], the first civilian nuclear power station, is commissioned in the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nuclear Power in Russia|publisher=[[World Nuclear Association]]|url=http://world-nuclear.org/info/inf45.html|access-date=2011-12-16|date=December 2011|archive-date=February 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213052522/http://world-nuclear.org/info/inf45.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * June 29 β [[Buckminster Fuller]] is granted a United States patent for his development of the [[geodesic dome]].<ref>[https://www.google.com/search?q=2682235&tbm=pts U.S. patent 2,682,235.]</ref> * September 30 β The [[submarine]] {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571}}, the first atomic-powered vessel, is commissioned by the United States Navy. * October 18 β [[Texas Instruments]] announces development of the first commercial [[transistor radio]], the [[Regency TR-1]], manufactured in [[Indianapolis]]; it goes on sale the following month. * December 16 β The first [[synthetic diamond]] is produced.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bundy|first1=F. P.|last2=Hall|first2=H. T.|last3=Strong|first3=H. M.|last4=Wentorf|first4=R. H.|year=1955|title=Man-made diamonds|url=http://www.htracyhall.org/papers/19550028.pdf|url-status=dead|journal=Nature|volume=176|issue=4471|pages=51β55|bibcode=1955Natur.176...51B|doi=10.1038/176051a0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108123004/http://www.htracyhall.org/papers/19550028.pdf|archive-date=2014-01-08|s2cid=4266566}}</ref> * New Zealand engineer [[Bill Hamilton (engineer)|Sir William Hamilton]] develops the first [[pump-jet]] engine (the "Hamilton Jet") capable of propelling a [[jetboat]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir William Hamilton OBE|url=http://www.hamiltonjet.co.nz/about_hamiltonjet/sir_william_hamilton|publisher=HamiltonJet|year=2007|access-date=2012-11-12}}</ref> * The first electric [[drip brew]] [[coffeemaker]] is patented in Germany and named the [[Wigomat]] after its inventor Gottlob Widmann.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sixty years of the Federal Republic of Germany β a retrospective of everyday life|url=http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lp/prj/mtg/typ/bun/en4922236.htminventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/coffee.htm|access-date=2002-12-28|archive-date=February 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225023359/https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/index.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Staley T. McBrayer]] invents the Vanguard web [[offset printing|offset press]] for newspaper printing in [[Fort Worth, Texas]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-18-me-staley18-story.html|title=Staley McBrayer, 92; Inventor of Offset Press for Newspaper Printing|date=2002-04-18|access-date=2017-10-19|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref> * The [[angle grinder]] is invented by German company Ackermann + Schmitt ([[Flex-Elektrowerkzeuge]]).
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