| PREDICTED "IMPORTANT" INVENTIONS 1937-1962(a) |
ACTUAL IMPORTANT INVENTIONS 1937--1962 |
|---|---|
| Mechanical Cotton Picker | Antibiotics |
| Air Conditioning | Air Conditioning*** |
| Plastics | Plastics*** |
| Rayon | Nylon | Automobile Trailers | Jet Aircraft |
| Television | Television*** |
| Prefab Houses | Nuclear Weapons |
| FAX Transmission | Nuclear Medicine |
| Synthetic Rubber | Nuclear Power |
| Tray Agriculture | Rockets |
| Synthetic Gasoline from Coal | Molecular Biology |
| Steep Flight Aircraft | Lasers |
| Digital Computers | |
| Xerox Copiers | |
| Radar | |
| Solid State Electronics |
| (a) From "Technological Trends and National Policy," by the U.S. National Resources Committee, Department of Interior, 1937. |