1950s

The 1950s were a time of advancement. This is the time when cars, refrigerators, and many more everyday items were invented. Henry Ford not only made the first cars widely available to the public, but he also invented the assembly line. This is where workers formed a line and then did the same thing over and over constantly, pushing out a lot of new cars. Another great invention was the refrigerator, which saved a lot of money on produce every week. Not all good came out of the 1950s though. In the year 1950, President Truman ordered the construction of the hydrogen bomb, which was later dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Another great feat of the 50s was the creation of the first fast food restaurant, McDonald’s. This saved a lot of time for busy businessmen constantly working, with a short lunch break. A couple of other nice findings were the finding of a polio vaccine, discovery of DNA, and the founding of NASA.



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