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In 1955, Irving Rips of Younger Optics created the first seamless or " invisible " bifocal, a precursor to all progressive lenses.
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After two more failed expeditions, in 1955 and 1957, Masherbrum was first climbed in 1960 by George Irving Bell and Willi Unsoeld, part of an American-Pakistani expedition led by Nick Clinch.
Nelson received his Ph. D. in 1955 from the University of Chicago, where he worked with Irving Segal.
Edward B. Irving edited the poem twice, 1955 and 1981: the first edition excerpted the Noah and Abraham portion as a separate poem ; on later reflection, Irving recanted, admitting it was an integrated part of the Exodus poem.
* 1955 Morley Cohen, Herbert E. Warden, Richard L. Varco, Hoffmann-La Roch Research Laboratories, Squibb Institute for Medical Research, Edward H. Robitzek, Irving Selikoff, Walsh McDermott, Carl Muschenheim
Irving Rips at Younger Optics developed the first commercially viable blended lens in 1955 called the Younger Seamless Bifocal.
" Mood Indigo " ( 1930 ) & ( 1955 ) is a jazz composition and song, with music by Duke Ellington and Barney Bigard with lyrics by Irving Mills.
After that, producer-director Irving Cummings hosted the program until it ended in 1955.
During the initial investigation an American, Martin Irving Lipstein, was arrested, but later released when lawyer Rubén O. Miró confessed to the crime on January 12, 1955.
He kept his ties to burlesque, and appeared in Irving Klaw's feature-length theatrical film Teaserama ( 1955 ), a re-creation of a burlesque show.
In 1955, singer / songwriters Irving Burgie and William Attaway wrote a version of the lyrics for the Colgate Comedy Hour in which the song was performed by Harry Belafonte.
1955 and Younger
* James Edward George Younger, 5th Viscount Younger of Leckie ( b. 1955 )
James Paton Younger 15 August 1955 – 1966
Some of his more notable roles include Jason Brown in the 1955 historical drama about the abolitionist John Brown entitled Seven Angry Men and as Kit Caswell in the 1958 western Cole Younger, Gunfighter, based on the infamous outlaw.
1955 and created
The Bliss bibliographic classification ( BC ) is a library classification system that was created by Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), published in four volumes between 1940 and 1953.
In 1955, 21 years later, Petersen retired having created 12 major sculptures for the campus and hundreds of small studio sculptures.
The commission created a report in 1955 recommending the reorganisation of India's states.
Piaget created the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology in Geneva in 1955 and directed it until 1980.
Chuck Berry's 1955 classic " Maybellene " in particular features a distorted electric guitar solo with warm overtones created by his small valve amplifier.
' Traditional Taekwon-Do ' may refer to ITF Taekwon-Do as created by the founder of ITF Taekwon-Do General Choi Hong Hi on April 11 1955 ; or WTF Taekwondo, founded by Dr Kim Un Yong on May 25, 1973.
Her tour aboard Britannia to the British colonies in the Caribbean in 1955 created a sensation throughout the West Indies, and calypsos were dedicated to her.
Miffy was created in 1955 after Bruna had been telling his one-year-old son Sierk stories about a little rabbit they had seen earlier in the dunes, while on holiday at Egmond aan Zee.
The state Legislature created the Alameda and Contra Costa Transit District in 1955, which still exists today as AC Transit, the third-largest bus-only transit system in the nation.
The Philadelphia Historical Commission was created in 1955 to preserve the cultural and architectural history of the city.
This last attempt lasted from 1955 until final United States Supreme Court approval and merger in March, 1970, which created the Burlington Northern Railroad.
In 1955, future physics Nobel prize laureate Louis Néel created the Grenoble Center for Nuclear Studies ( CENG ), resulting in the birth of the Grenoble model, a combination of research and industry.
However, the first regular parachute unit was only created in 1955, by the Portuguese Air Force, as the Parachute Caçadores Battailon.
At the time the Hallstein Doctrine was born ( or at least named ), Heinrich von Brentano was the foreign minister, a post that had been recently created, after West Germany largely regained its sovereignty in 1955 — before this, political responsibility for foreign policy had been retained by the chancellor, Konrad Adenauer.
In 1955, ABC established a recording division, the AmPar Record Corporation, which founded and operated the popular label ABC-Paramount Records ( which became ABC Records in 1965 ) and the noted jazz label Impulse Records, created in 1961.
In 1955 a " Rosarium " of 29, 000 rose bushes was created beside the avenue of lindens overlooking the site of the old village.
In 1952, the manufacturer Charmilles created the first machine using the spark machining process and was presented for the first time at the European Machine Tool Exhibition in 1955.
The French army resumed an important role in local Algerian administration through the Special Administration Section ( Section Administrative Spécialisée, SAS ), created in 1955.
In 1955 Cheo Marquetti created a new band called Conjunto Los Salseros and recorded some new songs ( Sonero and Que no muera el son ).
* Pongo, pampered pet dragon in the British children's television series A Rubovian Legend ( 1955 ), created by Gordon Murray
The Panasonic brand was created by Matsushita in 1955 for the Americas region because the National brand, which was its principal brand in its home market of Japan, was already registered by others.
In 1955 the Golden Palm was created, replacing the Grand Prix du Festival which had been given until that year.
The core of the park was created in 1955 and was originally called Lake Pedder National Park.
Though unincorporated, it was first represented by the North Peninsula Zoning Commission, created in 1955.
Its coat of arms, which depicts a golden lamb carrying an archbishop's cross, can be traced from 1568, but was created in 1955.
1955 and first
The radio emission of a planet was first detected in 1955, when Burke and Franklin ( 1955 ) identified the origin of interference-like radio noise on their records at about 15 meters wave length as emission from Jupiter.
The first sampling census in the Congo extended over a three-year period, 1955 - 57 ; ;
The first time was in 1955 when a full-dress Big Four summit meeting produced the `` spirit of Geneva ''.
Atomic timekeeping services started experimentally in 1955, using the first caesium atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory, UK ( NPL ).
In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.
* 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan.
* 1955 – 29 nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
They started playing together as a duo, formed the influential London Blues and Barrelhouse Club in 1955, and made their first record together in 1957.
It was first tested as RDS-37 in 1955.
The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.
The first benzodiazepine, chlordiazepoxide ( Librium ), was discovered accidentally by Leo Sternbach in 1955, and made available in 1960 by Hoffmann – La Roche, which has also marketed diazepam ( Valium ) since 1963.
The Eastern leaders retaliated against these steps by integrating the economies of their nations in Comecon, their version of the Marshall Plan ; exploding the first Soviet atomic device in 1949 ; signing an alliance with People's Republic of China in February 1950 ; and forming the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe's counterpart to NATO, in 1955.
* The Cone Gatherers, a novel by the Scottish writer Robin Jenkins, first published in 1955
In 1958, while still in Singapore, Parkinson published his most famous work Parkinson's Law, a book that expanded upon a humorous article that he had first published in the Economist magazine in November 1955, satirizing government bureaucracies.
Attlee came first in both the first and second ballots, and subsequently retained the leadership, a post which he would keep until 1955.
Post-World War II Japan has historically been dominated by the Liberal Democratic Party but there was a brief coalition government formed after the 1993 election following LDP's first loss of its overall House of Representatives majority since 1955.
1955 saw Cessna's first helicopter, the Cessna CH-1, receive FAA type certification.
Cleveland won the league championship in its first NFL season, followed by two more in 1954 and 1955.
The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.
The Cy Young Award was first introduced in 1956 by Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.
Although first introduced by Hebert Candies in 1955, Mars, Incorporated was the first to produce white chocolate within the United States.
Chelsea had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship, and won various cup competitions during the 1960s, 1970s, 1990s and 2000s.
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