Editing 1952 in science (section)

==Technology==
* September 30 – The [[Cinerama]] [[widescreen]] film system, developed by [[Fred Waller]], debuts with the movie ''[[This Is Cinerama]]'' at the [[Broadway Theatre (53rd Street)|Broadway Theatre]] in New York City.
* October 7 – The [[barcode]] is [[patent]]ed in the United States by [[Norman Joseph Woodland|Norman J. Woodland]] and [[Bernard Silver]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Woodland |first1=Norman J. |last2=Bernard |first2=Silver |url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US2612994 |title=Classifying Apparatus And Method |id=U.S. Patent 2,612,994 }}</ref> though it does not make its first appearance in an American shop until [[1974 in science|1974]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19849141|title=Barcode birthday: 60 years since patent|first=Zoe|last=Kleinman|work=[[BBC News]]|date=2012-10-07|access-date=2013-06-17}}</ref>