Jan. 3, 1957: Debut of the Electric Watch, a Space Age Marvel
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For blind faith in technology it's hard to top the 1950s, and Hamilton's revolutionary watch is an iconic reminder of that faith -- both good and bad.
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In 1958, Mr. Stewart helped launch the first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, while he kept tabs on rival efforts by the Russians.
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By Laurence Phelan  This camp, lavish, ahead-of-its-time Technicolor space opera stands apart from the the cycle of sci-fi films that Hollywood made in the 1950s - paranoid, earthbound, black-and-white B-movies featuring atomic mutation or alien (for which read Communist) invasion.
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BOULDER, Colo. -- Moviegoers may recall it as that nifty bit of high-speed technology used in 2010: The Year We Make Contact --  the space age equivalent of playing air bag bumper car with Jupiter.
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It's the birthplace of the transistor, the laser, the solar cell and the fax machine. Its researchers were the first to hear the echoes of the Big Bang. And now this American legend is part of a French company.
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PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro  - In Geneva or  Berlin, a Bulgari, Breitling or Tag Heuer wristwatch can cost a  month's salary.
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In the hours just before dawn on Dec. 16, 1944 -- 60 years ago today -- Art Schreckengost was trying to get some sleep. It was difficult in combat fatigues and the cold.
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The first privately financed manned rocket to fly into space has been named Time magazine&#39;s âInvention of the Year.&#39;&#39;.
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By SETH BORENSTEIN  CAPE CANAVERAL - NASA hopes to figure out what caused the latest problem keeping Atlantis earthbound: an electrical short in a 30-year-old motor.
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Atomic clocks may be headed into cell phones, thanks to a breakthrough by federal researchers. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the heart of an atomic clock
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Analog box in disguise? Few start-ups would have the guts or audacity to unveil their first product at the Computer History Museum. D-Wave Systems, however, did just that today by unveiling the world's most advanced quantum computer - a product that may one day be displayed at the museum as a breakthrough system or simply as a curious relic.â¦
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Seminal moments in television history? There was the first appearance of the Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964, the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, and, of course, the final "M*A*S*H" episode, watched by 106 million viewers in 1983.
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Einstein, Plato and other big thinkers grappled with the concept of time. Now it's your turn. In the Wired Wiki.
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The modern world wouldn't be what it is if it weren't for a little piece of technology that emerged from Bell Labs in 1947.Photos: Sixty years of transistors
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Johnson Space Center and SpaceRef.com report, âIf you look carefully at the large version of this image [of the International Space Station] you will see a 5th generation iPod attached to a Belkin external battery pack on the equipment rack directly in front of [astronaut] Thomas Reiter.â
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa - A World War I veteran's watch lost nearly 90 years ago, has stood the test of time. William B. Gill lost his watch in France, where he served in the U.S. Army. Another man, Carl Grothaus, won it in a poker game and brought it back to South Dakota.
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HOUSTON - It's a junkyard out there in space and sometimes astronauts accidentally contribute to the litter.In 1965, the first American spacewalker, Ed White, lost a spare glove when he went outside for the first time.