In 1945, for his work in handling the Fermi line in the United States, Vasilevsky was appointed deputy director of Department S. For a short period in 1947 he was the director of the department of scientific and technological intelligence in the Committee of Information ( KI ).

Carl Barks ( March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000 ) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck ( 1947 ), Gladstone Gander ( 1948 ), the Beagle Boys ( 1951 ), The Junior Woodchucks ( 1951 ), Gyro Gearloose ( 1952 ), Cornelius Coot ( 1952 ), Flintheart Glomgold ( 1956 ), John D. Rockerduck ( 1961 ) and Magica De Spell ( 1961 ).

Modern versions of the Geiger counter use the halogen tube invented in 1947 by Sidney H. Liebson.

Instead, what Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invented in 1947 was the first bipolar point-contact transistor.

* 1947 – First germanium point-contact transistor invented

In 1947 Indiana Standard was the first company to drill off-shore, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in 1948 Stanolind Oil invented Hydrafrac, a hydraulic well fracturing process that increased oil production worldwide.

The halogen GM tube was invented by Sidney H. Liebson in 1947.

He claimed in 1947 that he simply invented the story as a possible line of defense, one that would put the affair in an entirely new light.

He became a British citizen in 1946, and it was while working at British Thomson-Houston that he invented holography, in 1947.

Holography was also invented in Rugby by the Hungarian inventor Dennis Gabor in 1947.

Lyle Yost invented an auger that would lift grain out of a combine in 1947, making unloading grain much easier.

In modern electronics, the vacuum tube has been largely superseded by solid state devices such as the transistor, invented in 1947 and implemented in integrated circuits in 1959, although vacuum tubes remain to this day in high-powered transmitters, as well as in television sets and computer monitors as the cathode ray tube display.

1947 In an interview with The New Yorker magazine, Cowan claims he invented the flashlight

Swarfega was invented in 1947 by Audley Bowdler Williamson ( 28 February 1916-21 November 2004 ), an industrial chemist from Heanor, Derbyshire.

* 1947: The Hungarian scientist Dennis Gabor invented holography at the BTH site in Rugby.

Sporting Life magazine invented the concept of an All-Australian Team in 1947.

" Coward brought the play to the Haymarket Theatre, London, in April 1947, where The Times praised it as " a wittily impudent and neatly invented burlesque of a French farce.

In 1947 the bipolar point-contact transistor was invented by Walter H. Brattain and John Bardeen under the direction of William Shockley at the Bell Telephone Laboratory.

Though the issue is disputed, Sharkey ’ s began serving spiedies in 1947, which makes Iacovelli more likely to have invented the dish first.

In 1991, AGCO purchased the Hesston Corporation ( one source states 1975 ) gaining hay and forage equipment as well as technologies such as the grain auger ( used to unload grain quickly from combines ), invented in 1947 by Lyle Yost.

Swiss photographer Carl Hans Koch invented the Sinar camera in 1947 due to his dissatisfaction with the imprecise nature of wooden view cameras and the limitations of technical ( e. g., Linhof Technika ) and field cameras of the day.

The Australian meat pie manufacturer Four ' N ' Twenty says that its pie was invented in 1947 by L. T. McClure in a small Bendigo bakery, to become the brand Four ' N ' Twenty.

From the dojo he taught Matsubayashi-ryu, a karate school he had invented in 1947, and named in honour of Sokon Matsumura and Kosaku Matsumora.

His work was only understood by a handful of scientists in the organization, one of whom was Dr. Walter Brattain ( one of the trio who invented the germanium bipolar transistor in 1947, and who would be awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1956 ).

The Four ' N Twenty Meat Pie was invented in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia by LT. McClure in 1947.

Thomas Mann's 1947 Doktor Faustus: Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn, erzählt von einem Freunde adapts the Faust legend to a 20th-century context, documenting the life of fictional composer Adrian Leverkühn as analog and embodiment of the early 20th-century history of Germany and of Europe.

In 1947, the design of the MIT Whirlwind introduced the concept of a control store as a way to simplify computer design and move beyond ad hoc methods.

* 1947 – First actual case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

The Williams tube, better called the Williams-Kilburn tube ( after inventors Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn ), developed in 1946 and 1947, was a cathode ray tube used as a computer memory to electronically store binary data.

Jan Węglarz ( born 1947 in Poznań ) is a Polish computer scientist.

On July 4, David devises a plan to use the 1947 spacecraft to sneak into the mothership and introduce a computer virus before detonating a nuclear weapon inside the ship.

In 1947 the Navy awarded ERA a contract, " Task 13 ", to develop what was destined to be the first stored program computer.

In 1947 Eckert and Mauchly formed the first computer company, the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation ( EMCC ); Mauchly was president.

By 1947, Forrester and collaborator Robert Everett completed the design of a high-speed stored-program computer for this task.

* John Robert Anderson ( psychologist ) ( born 1947 ), Canadian psychologist and computer scientist

In July 1947, an advisory committee for the Applied Mathematics Department discussed the plan to build the computer.

Ravi Sethi ( born 1947 ) is an Indian computer scientist retired from Bell Labs and president of Avaya Labs Research.

Subhash Kak (; Subhāṣ Kāk ) ( born March 26, 1947 in Srinagar, Kashmir ) is an Indian American computer scientist, most notable for his controversial Indological publications on history, the philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and the history of mathematics.

In 1947, Aiken completed his work on the Harvard Mark II computer.

* Gérard Huet ( born 1947 ), French computer scientist

* Giora Ram ( born 1947 ), interdisciplinary scientist in physics, mathematics, computer science, and medicine

* Jonathan Sachs ( born 1947 ), an American computer programmer

Davies describes computer projects at the U. K. National Physical Laboratory, from the 1947 design work of Alan Turing to the development of the two ACE computers.

* October 2 ( 11: 45 p. m .)-The ENIAC computer is deactivated at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, having been in continuous operation since 1947.

* Bill Stealey ( born 1947 ), retired U. S. Air Force pilot and computer game producer

* David Patterson ( scientist ) ( born 1947 ), American professor of computer science at UC Berkeley

Davies describes computer projects at the U. K. National Physical Laboratory, from the 1947 design work of Alan Turing to the development of the two ACE computers.

Robert Cailliau (), born 26 January 1947, is a Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, developed the World Wide Web.