Have any of y'all lived during the first coming abouts of any of these inventions? If so...?

Question

Polio Vaccine
Portable Calculator
Smoke Detector
Fridge
Microwave

If so, can you tell me a little something (maybe just one or two sentances) about their coming about in your life?

Answer 1

I grew up in NYC, pre polio vaccine. Every summer, if any family could *possibly* afford it, the mom took the children out of the city during the "polio season" to someplace healthier. We'd see Dad on the weekend or not at all, from the time school let out at the end of June, until it started up again right after Labor Day.
There was a family on our block, nice people with children our age, whom my parents ordinarily would have encouraged us to be friends with, but we were told to avoid them completely because the little girl (my age) had had polio. She had fully recovered and there was nothing visibly wrong with her! Yet I was expected to cross the street to avoid her. Eventually the family moved, I assume so the kids could have a 'fresh start'.
Everyone I knew lived in terror of polio--there was no preventing it, it could kill or cripple little children, and there was no cure. The development of the Salk vaccine was like the development of penicillin, the first antibiotic; it was a modern-day miracle. It seemed almost too good to be true.

Answer 2

The Polio Vaccine becae available in the 1950's and it was given in public schools to children and itwas very successful because polio after vacinations became very rare.
Portable calculators became popular in the 60's
Smoke detectors became law in housing and apartments and mobile homes in the 70's. Refrigerators became popular in 1800s but were called ice boxes..and blocks of ice were delivered to peoples usinesses first them people started using them in there homes. the electric ones became available in the time frame when electicity became used in homes..
Microwaves hit the market in the 1980's and were expensive. Then by 1984 the prices came down to a good price and more people could buy them.
I remembermy first polio vaccine in 1959 in kindergarten in ohio..
hope this helps you .

Answer 3

Had an adding machine and then the calculator came out.
Very nice job. quite impressive.
Smoke detector....Sure I thought. We now consider it a life saver.
microwave. ha who cared about cooking in that thing when you have a perfectly good oven.
Now still learning many good ways to cook and thaw. amazing
Dish Washer Best invention I have ever been exposed to.
Rob me but please leave the dish washer.
Surgery. Could not have children. Was told I never would. too dangerous to keep trying. 10 years later they took another look into my uterus and found a wall had formed in the center and was preventing me from carrying a baby more than 3 months.
The surgery was called a metro plasty.
Finally had 1 child. A miricle
Have a great day now.

Answer 4

All different than the refrigerator. I have been given between the 1st all-digital calculators as a intense college commencement latest. It fee almost $2 hundred. (Bread became into 25 cents a loaf and gas 30 cents a gallon!) i bought a microwave and a hotplate for between the 1st properties my new bride and that i rented using fact it had no prepare dinner range. i think of I paid approximately 4 hundred for the MW and it might slightly carry a dinner plate. Bert