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Era of Electronics 1950's - 1960's By Leah Kritter and Khay Alwassi The human race is always trying to create new things. The 50's and 60's saw a number of important inventions that changed the lives of the present generation. Many of these inventions were electronic that made life in the United States more entertaining as well as easier. Two of these inventions are the cordless phone and the color tv.

__Phones__ Phones used to be a large, stationary piece of equipment. But in 1965, Terri Pall invented the cordless phone. She was a jazz singer and came up with an idea to eliminate the wiring and make the phone wire free. A cordless phone, or also known as a portable phone, communicates through radio waves and has a base station that is connected to a telephone line. The telephone is powered by a rechargeable battery when the phone sits on the cradle on the base station. A cordless phone used to function at a low frequency and worked well only in small areas. Today, cordless phones are capable of functioning flawlessly in large spaces. Efficiency of high frequency phones is superior to that of low frequency phones with better security as it became difficult to interfere into calls. Phones now have been made to look sleek and have been improvised. They are made of lighter and more durable materials to make them much more efficient.

__Colored TV__ Televisions have been around since the 1920’s but didn’t become popular until the 1960’s when colored TV started to become popular. The first color television was invented in 1925 but was unsuccessful; however in 1953 on December 17th the first successful color television system began commercial broadcasting based on a design by RCA. The colored television started what is known as ‘**The Golden Age of Television’** which was from approximately 1949 to 1961. TV stations did not broadcast 24 hours per day, as has been customary in America since the 1990s, technical limitations in the design of TV transmitters at the time forced broadcasters to use a 12-hour to 18-hour-per-day broadcast schedule. Television did not quite play the role in people's lives in the 1950s that it does now. However, by about 1958, it had become the dominant form of home entertainment in the American household.



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sources - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Television http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcolortelevision.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordless_phones http://ezinearticles.com/?History-of-Cordless-Phones&id=408046