Three Russian instruments also appeared, Oubouhof's Croix Sonore ( 1934 ), Ivor Darreg's microtonal ' Electronic Keyboard Oboe ' ( 1937 ) and the ANS synthesizer, constructed by the Russian scientist Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1958.

The dome was successfully adopted for specialized uses, such as the 21 Distant Early Warning Line domes built in Canada in 1956, the 1958 Union Tank Car Company dome near Baton Rouge, Louisiana designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and specialty buildings like the Kaiser Aluminum domes ( constructed in numerous locations across the US, e. g., Virginia Beach, VA ), auditoriums, weather observatories, and storage facilities.

The Alan B. Shepard Civic Center (" The Dome "), a significant building in the city's history, was constructed in 1958, was dedicated to the career of former Virginia Beach resident and astronaut Alan Shepard.

On 16 October 1958, the first Atlas ICBM launcher ( 576A-1 ) constructed at Vandenberg AFB, California, was accepted from the contractor by the 1st Missile Division.

The Merriam School was constructed in 1958.

An addition of a library and home-economics room was added in 1950 and an elementary school building was constructed in 1958.

Brunswick saw a growth of industry through the mid-20th century, with the construction of an alfalfa drying plant constructed in 1939, the Chariton Electric Company in 1958, in 1965 the opening of the Tuloma Fertilizer blending plant, and in 1970 the establishment of a glove factory.

A sewage plant for the city was constructed in 1958 and expanded in 2007.

The courthouse was torn down in 1958 and a new building was constructed.

The current building was constructed in 1958, with additions in 1983 and 1999.

In 1944 a fourth line was constructed and it absorbed the branch of line 2 between Goya and Diego de León in 1958, a branch that had been intended to be part of line 4 since its construction but was operated as a branch of line 2 until the construction of line 4.

A prefabricated building in the Walks was used to hold the surviving books while a new Library was constructed, and the new building ( designed by Sir Edward Maufe ) was opened in 1958.

In 1994, a brand new terminal was constructed adjacent to the old 1958 building.

In 1958, the original section of the QEW west of Guelph Line was relocated on a new alignment known as the Freeman Diversion which improved access to the proposed Burlington Bay James N. Allan Skyway and allowed the Freeman Interchange ( a " semi-directional T " interchange ) to be constructed with the future Highway 403.

High-level bridges were constructed in 1958 ( the Burlington Bay James N. Allan Skyway over Hamilton Harbour in Burlington ) and 1963 ( the Garden City Skyway over the Welland Canal in St. Catharines ) to allow free movement of traffic without the need to stop for drawbridges.

The remnants of the bombed church were used as the basis for a new church designed by George Pace and constructed 1958 – 1963.

The government entered the housing business on a large scale for the first time in Mexican history, with a major programme being initiated to build low-cost housing in major industrial cities with over 50, 000 units of low-income housing constructed between 1958 and 1964.

In 1958, due to expansion, a new building was constructed across the road at 51 Lime Street.

The Canadian Headquarters for The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons was constructed in 1958 on 74 Stanley Ave in Ottawa, Ontario.

Euromast is an observation tower in Rotterdam, Netherlands, designed by Hugh Maaskant constructed between 1958 and 1960.

The first motorway constructed in Great Britain was the M6 Preston Bypass, opened in 1958.

The first stand was constructed in 1958, the opposite stand in 1997 and the old stand was renovated and extended in 2006.

This bridge, which was constructed from 1958 to 1959, is maintained by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, but currently is toll-free.

In 1958, at the height of the Cold War and the infancy of the ICBM threat, Carp was selected as the site for one of the Emergency Government Headquarters ( also known as Diefenbunkers, named for Canada's 13th Prime Minister John Diefenbaker ) complexes being constructed across Canada.

The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

The Title 8, program of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was a great spur to this trend toward area schools.

* 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 1 – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.

* 1958 – Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.

* 1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 ( the probe falls back to Earth and burns up ).

By 1958, roughly four years after Schriever had initiated his ballistic missile program, SAC activated the 704th Strategic Missile Wing to operate first the intermediate range Thor missile and then a year later the first true ICBM, the Atlas missile.

When NASA was formed in 1958, it was given authority over all non-nuclear aspects of the Rover program.

Similarly, the IBM 1401 system ( c. 1958 ) used a card reader to load a program from a punched card.

The concept of time-out was invented, named, and used by Arthur Staats in his extended work with his daughter ( and later son ), and was part of a long-term program of behavioral analysis beginning in 1958 that treated various aspects of child development.

Due to the high cost of the Regulus II ( approx one million dollars each ), budgetary pressure, and the emergence of the UGM-27 Polaris SLBM ( submarine launched ballistic missile ), the Regulus II program was canceled on 18 December 1958.

* 1958, NSS becomes the first chess program to use the alpha-beta search algorithm.

Under Mao's leadership, he broke with the Soviet model and announced a new economic program, the " Great Leap Forward ", in 1958, aimed at rapidly raising industrial and agricultural production.

CCTV Peking ( Beijing ) Television ( 北京电视台 ) broadcast its first program on 2 September 1958.

The former program, launched in 1958, made television history, winning every award in the field of educational television.

In his second book about the program, Alex Barris tells an anecdote about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger Jesse Owens about Adolf Hitler during a 1958 episode ; this is one of the episodes that does not survive.

The musical score of " Third from the Sun " hails from the June 8, 1958 radio broadcast of " The Invisible Ape " from the long running Suspense radio program series.

The U. S. manned satellite space program, using the Redstone as a booster, was officially named Project Mercury on November 26, 1958.

Another U. S. dramatic television program, titled " Cimarron City " ( 1958 – 60 ), was also set in the town.

Nathaniel Hawthorne used the Fountain in " Dr. Heidegger's Experiment " to demonstrate that positive thinking is a far better remedy than deluded journeys to Florida for legendary cures ; Orson Welles directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend ; and Tim Powers featured it in On Stranger Tides, a novel of 18th century pirate-voodoo adventure.

On March 17, 1958, the program successfully launched the Vanguard satellite TV-4.

In 1958, the program won a New York City Emmy award.

Along the way, moreover, the NSF's astronomy program has forged a close working relationship with that of NASA, which was also founded in 1958: just as NASA has responsibility for the U. S. effort in space-based astronomy, the NSF provides virtually all the U. S. federal support for ground-based astronomy.

In the U. K., telerecordings continued to be made after the advent of commercial broadcast videotape from 1958 as they possessed several distinct advantages, particularly for overseas program sales.

In 1958, a few months before companion station WKBW-TV ( channel 7 ) was launched, WKBW radio abandoned its adult approach and was converted into a personality-driven full service Top 40 music radio station, featuring foreground personalities, a tight playlist of current hits and an aggressive local news department, which it continued to program with great success for over 20 years.