Inventions of the 1960's

Halogen Lamp

Aug 25, 1960

Was invented by a general electric engineer, Fredrick Moby. The halogen lamps that moby invented could fit into a standard lightbulb socket.

Coffee Mate

Jan 20, 1961

Coffee Mate was invented in 1961. It was manufactured by Nestle.

Space War Video Game Realeased

Feb 14, 1962

This was the first computer game invented and it was invented by Steve Russell. Took 200 hours to make/write the game.

Video Disk

Oct 27, 1963

Dr. David Paul Gregg was the inventor of the Video Disk. The video disk was a camera that would store several minutes worth of images onto an optical video disk. Little was known about it since there was no files.

BASIC ( early computer language )

May 1, 1964

Invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC was first used to run programs on the schools general electric computer system 50 years ago.

Compact Disk

Aug 17, 1965

The optical digital technology was initially met with skepticism, as it was not believed that one could digitize sound.

1st video game that could be displayed on tv

Sep 1, 1966

Television engineer Ralph Baer created "The Brown Box" in 1966

First Handheld calculator

Aug 25, 1967

It was first invented at TI. The project was code named " Cal Tech"

Computer Mouse

Dec 9, 1968

It was publicly unveiled in 1968 by the inventor which was Douglas C. Engelbart. It was invented in the early 1960's but then later unveiled to the public.

ATM

Sep 2, 1969

Fred J. Gentile and Jack Wu Chang invented the atm network and were recognized by the United States Patent Office. The first ATM in the United States was installed in Rockville Centre, New York.

Home VCR

Mar 30, 1970

They were big bulky tapes that held movies and cartoons.