If you just take for example the turbomolecular pump, developed in 1958. Or from the nuclear viewpoint the various collision cross sections for different elements worked on as a result of the development of the H-Bomb.
It wasn’t until 1941 when Kolmogorov first developed his theories of turbulence, that were later applied to magnetic plasmas that any kind of hypotheses of how macroscopic forces cascaded the energy transport down to smaller scales was considered.
