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English physicists John Randall and Harry Boot develop a compact magnetron for use in airplane radar navigation systems.
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John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invent the transistor, which allows electronic equipment to made much smaller and leads to the modern computer revolution
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Joseph-Armand Bombardier perfects his Ski-Doo® snowmobile
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Theodore Maiman invents the ruby laser
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William Armistead and S. Donald Stookey of Corning Glass Works invent light-sensitive (photochromic) glass.
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Ivan Sutherland develops Sketchpad, one of the first computer-aided design programs
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IBM helps to pioneer e-commerce with an airline ticket reservation system called SABRE
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Martin Cooper develops the first handheld cellphone (mobile phone).
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Ted Hoff builds the first single-chip computer or microprocessor.
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Compact discs (CDs) are launched as a new way to store music by the Sony and Philips corporations.
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Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web
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The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales.
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Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad.
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3D TV starts to become more widely available.
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Elon Musk announces "hyperloop"—a giant, pneumatic tube transport system.
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Supercomputers (the world's fastest computers) are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains.
