ASTR 1210 (O'Connell) Lecture Notes



TECHNOLOGICAL PREDICTION


PREDICTED "IMPORTANT"
INVENTIONS
1937-1962(a)
ACTUAL IMPORTANT INVENTIONS
1937--1962
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Mechanical Cotton Picker  
Air Conditioning  
Plastics  
Rayon  
Automobile Trailers  
Photoelectric Cell  
Television  
Prefab Houses  
FAX Transmission  
Synthetic Rubber  
Tray Agriculture  
Synthetic Gasoline from Coal  
Steep Flight Aircraft  
(a) From "Technological Trends and National Policy," by the U.S. National Resources Committee, Department of Interior, 1937.