A wireless remote control, the " Flashmatic ", was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley.

On June 11, 1955, NBC, The National Broadcasting Company, provided the 1st live remote broadcast to the nation from Niagara Falls, New York.

MCR studies, which had begun in 1955, grew out of the Transportation Corps ' interest in using nuclear energy to power heavy, overland cargo haulers in remote areas.

Positive reviews and the novelty of viewing art works in the artists own homes ( including Bawden's Brick House ) led to thousands visiting the remote village during the summer exhibitions of 1954, 1955 and 1958.

After finding the remote control to summon the DeLorean, players can time travel between 1955, 1985 and 2015.

His first national exposure came when CBS brought him aboard in 1955 to co-host the children's travelogue, Let's Take a Trip ..." Taking two children on sort of an electronic field trip every week -- live, remote location, no audience, no sponsors ", Fox himself described that show, during interviews for PBS's The American Experience.

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.

The system entered service in 1955 ; today only a very small number remains in service.

In 1955, Bob Casey, a well-known " sock hop " DJ, brought the two-turntable system to the U. S. Throughout the 1950s, payola continued to be a problem and one result of the payola scandal was tighter control of the music by station management.

* 1955 – The Government of Sindh abolishes the Jagirdari system in the province.

Greenberg is widely known for his development of a new classification system for the languages of Africa, which he published as a series of articles in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology from 1949 to 1954 ( reprinted together as a book in 1955 ).

In 1955, Prokhorov and Basov suggested optical pumping of a multi-level system as a method for obtaining the population inversion, later a main method of laser pumping.

Malaysia has a multi-party system since the first direct election of the Federal Legislative Council of Malaya in 1955 on a first-past-the-post basis.

In his 1955 article " The Role of Government in Education " Friedman proposed supplementing publicly operated schools with privately run but publicly funded schools through a system of school vouchers.

In 1914, Sweden put in place a rationing system, the Bratt System, in force until 1955.

In response they dramatically increased their efforts in SAM development, deploying the SA-1 Guild system around Moscow as early as 1955.

In 1955, the first commercial system was installed at the Reader's Digest, which used OCR to input sales reports into a computer.

This first intermodal system operated from November 1955 until 1982.

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.

In 1954 Citroën produced the world's first hydropneumatic self-levelling suspension system, then in 1955 the revolutionary Citroën DS, the first European production car with disc brakes.

Between 1930 and 1955, the only vehicular access to the island was provided by an elevator system in the Elevator Storehouse that transported cars and commuters between the bridge and the island.

Although the 17-point agreement had provided for an autonomous administration led by the Dalai Lama, a " Preparatory Committee for the Autonomous Region of Tibet " ( PCART ) was established in 1955 to create a parallel system of administration along Communist lines.

* Henry E. Bliss ( 1870 – 1955 ), devised the Bliss library classification system

* 1961 — J. Heinrich Matthaei cracked the first codon of the genetic code ( the codon for the amino acid phenylalanine ) using Grunberg-Manago's 1955 enzyme system for making polynucleotides.

This system continued until 1955 when Sindh was dissolved.

From 1955 to 1960, Chiang administered the construction and completion of Taiwan's highway system.

This system was broadly endorsed by Commissions chaired by Playfair ( 1874 ), Ridley ( 1886 ), MacDonnell ( 1914 ), Tomlin ( 1931 ) and Priestley ( 1955 ).

In 1955 DAF produced its first drafts of a car belt drive system.

Eurocopter and its predecessor companies have established a wide range of helicopter ' firsts ', including the first production turboshaft-powered helicopter ( the Alouette II of 1955 ); the introduction of the Fenestron shrouded tail rotor ( on the Gazelle of 1968 ); the first helicopter certified for full flight in icing conditions ( the AS332 Super Puma, in 1984 ); the first production helicopter with a Fly-by-Wire control system ( the NH90, first flown in full FBW mode in 2003 ); the first helicopter to use a Fly-by-Light primary control system ( an EC135 testbed, first flown in 2003 ); and the first ever landing of a helicopter on Mt.

1955 Yellow Book ( Interstate system ) | Yellow Book map of New York City, showing a planned Interstate Highway along part of the Route 23 corridor. Route 23 uses part of two 19th-century roads, the Newark-Pompton Turnpike, which was built between 1806 and 1811, and the Paterson-Hamburg Turnpike, which was incorporated in 1806.

* 1955 – Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist and engineer, invented the World Wide Web

* 1895 – Engelbert Zaschka, German engineer, designer, and inventor, invented the Human-powered aircraft ( d. 1955 )

In 1955 Jonas Salk invented a polio vaccine which was given to more than seven million American students.

Striped toothpaste was invented by a New Yorker named Leonard Lawrence Marraffino in 1955.

Jotto was invented in 1955 by Morton M. Rosenfeld and marketed by his New York-based Jotto Corp.

A successful early humbucking pickup was the so-called PAF ( literally " Patent Applied For ") invented by Seth Lover in 1955.

In the late 1940s Fischinger invented the Lumigraph ( patented in 1955 ) which others have called a type of color organ.

Throughout the 1950s, additional barefoot starting techniques were invented including the two-ski jump out, the beach start ( invented by Ken Tibado in 1955 ), and the deep water start ( invented by Joe Cash in 1958 ).

In 1955, Sigmon invented a specialized radio and tape recorder that the Los Angeles Police Department used to alert radio stations throughout the city to traffic conditions and emergencies.

Bennett invented radio frequency mass spectrometry in ( 1955 ).

* FORTRAN ( 1955 ), the " FORmula TRANslator ", invented by John Backus et al.

The first commercial bag-in-box system was invented by William R. Scholle in 1955 for the safe transportation and dispensing of battery acid.

The method of semantic tableaux was invented by the Dutch logician Evert Willem Beth ( Beth 1955 ) and simplified by Raymond Smullyan ( Smullyan 1968, 1995 ).

The Opinel Virobloc or safety twistlock mechanism was invented by Marcel Opinel in 1955, greatly increasing the safety and versatility of the knife by allowing the blade to be locked in the open position.

In 1955, Beckman established the seminal Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory as a division of Beckman Instruments to begin commercializing the semiconductor transistor technology invented by Caltech alumnus William Shockley.

The EFA is the heir of the first self-propelled bridging vehicle invented in 1955 by the French military engineer and general Gillois Jean ( born in Châteaubriant 1909 ).