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vaccine againt hepatitis B
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How it changed the decade
These advances helped the U.S. in many ways. Life was made tremendously easier. It made the daily task easier to complete. -
Fully implantable pacemaker
-Medtronic
-Patient died 9 months later of other ailments -
First open heart surgery
-Patient age 7
-mercy hospital, oklahoma city -
audio cassette invented
-By Phillips -
Fiber tipped pen
-By Yukio Horie -
First computer video game
-Called spacewar
-200 hours of work -
Soft Contact Lenses
-expensive
-fragile
-led to creation of contact insurance; "replacement lense inc." -
Handheld Calculator
First one known as ANITA -
Computer Mouse
Finally could navigate between windows -
Artificial Heart
-First patient survived
-actually was replaced by a donor heart in patient -
ATM
-first to use "credit card'
-New York Chemical Bank
-"our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again!"
-At the begginning most resisted use because of machine handling money -
Barcode Scanner
-laser scanned -
Apollo 11
-first humans on moon
