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The first commercial 3D printer was invented by Charles Hull. Charles invented it in the night and his wife was the first person that he showed it to.
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The company 3D systems was founded by Charles Hull in Valencia, California. 3D systems creates consumer and industrial 3D printers.
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Scott Crump invented Fused Deposition Modeling. FDM works by heating and extruding thermoplastic filament and then depositing layers of semi-liquid beads along an STL-defined extrusion path.
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The first commercially successful 3D printer was invented by 3D systems. The SLA 250 cost around $187,000.
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Stratasys was founded by Scott Crump and his wife Lisa Crump in Edina, Minnesota. Stratasys ranges from small desktop printers to large, advanced 3D production systems.
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The first FDM 3D printer was invented by Stratasys. It cost $130,000 or $178,000 with a Silicon Graphics Personal Iris workstation and software.
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3D Systems bought SLA business from EOS. They paid $3.25 million and agreed to drop lawsuits made by them in 1993 and 1994.
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Scientists at Wake Forest Institute for Regeneratie Medicine printed the first ever 3d printed organ, a bladder, which was transplanted into a human. Created with the patient's own cells. there is little chance of the organ being rejected by the body.
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3D Systems bought DTM for $40.3 million dollars. They also bought French company Optoform and Swiss firm RPC. Optoform, was co-founded by André-Luc Allanic and Philippe Schaeffer in 1997.
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Stratasys launched RedEye RPM service. You can order in to a 24/7 service and get your 3D printed object(s) in 3-5 days.
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The RepRap 1.0 “self-replicating” 3D printer was released. It could make 50% of its own parts.
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Thingiverse was created by MakerBot. Thingiverse is an open-source website with 3D printer designs.
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Makerbot Industries was founded. Its first product had source files to build on Thingiverse and was called Cupcake CNC.
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The Urbee: A 3D-printed car was created. The bodywork is all 3D printed and the exterior components were made in ABS using Dimension 3D printers and Fortus 3D production systems.
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The first 3D printed blood vessels were created. A regenerative medicine company did it using NovoGen technology.
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First 3D printed chocolate. A project team headed by the University of Exeter, along with Brunel University and software developer Declam created it with ink-jet-style 3D printing.
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The first 3D printed aircraft was created by the University of Southampton. No tools were required and everything was printed on an EOS EOSINT P 730.
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3D systems buys Z Corporation and medicine/dental imaging specialist Vidar Systems. The deal cost $135.5 million in cash.
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The first 3D printed jaw was created by a Belgian firm called Layerwise. It was used to replace a senior patient’s osteomyelitis-affected mandible.
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The first 3D printed gun was printed. It is is fully functional, called the Liberator and was created by Cody Wilson.
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Stratasys made a move into the consumer desktop 3D printing space by buying Makerbot and Thingiverse. The total amount of the deal was $403 million.
