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Refrigerators and televisions were introduced to the public before WWII, but the combination of the poor economy in the 1930's and the war itself held off mass adoption until the post-war era.  One key development that was actually introduced after WWI instead of before it was electronic computing.  The ENIAC celectrical computing device was invented in 1946 to perform ballistics calculations.  It weighted 30 tons, took up 1800 square feet, and consumed 160 kilowatts of electrical power while operating.  The development of the transistor and integrated circuit in the 1950's began the trend in rapid miniaturization that puts more computing power in one of your students' cell phones than ENIAC ever had.  (I recall reading that a single modern laptop could handle all the computing used by NASA to run an Apollo mission, but can't find the reference now.) --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 11:44, 3 December 2008 (EST)

Refrigerators and televisions were introduced to the public before WWII, but the combination of the poor economy in the 1930's and the war itself held off mass adoption until the post-war era.  One key development that was actually introduced after WWI instead of before it was electronic computing.  The ENIAC celectrical computing device was invented in 1946 to perform ballistics calculations.  It weighted 30 tons, took up 1800 square feet, and consumed 160 kilowatts of electrical power while operating.  The development of the transistor and integrated circuit in the 1950's began the trend in rapid miniaturization that puts more computing power in one of your students' cell phones than ENIAC ever had.  (I recall reading that a single modern laptop could handle all the computing used by NASA to run an Apollo mission, but can't find the reference now.) --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 11:44, 3 December 2008 (EST)

==Neil Armstrong==

==Neil Armstrong==