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1980-1989
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Hepatitis B Vaccine
Baruch Blumberg was the American research physician whose discovery of an antigen that provokes antibody response against hepatitis B led to the development by other researchers of a successful vaccine against the disease. Hepatitis B is a serious disease caused by a virus that attacks the liver. The virus, which is called hepatitis B virus (HBV), can cause lifelong infection, cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure, and death. -
MS-DOS
IBM introduced its new revolution in a box, the "Personal Computer" complete with a brand new operating system from Microsoft, a 16-bit computer operating system called MS-DOS 1.0.In 1980, IBM first approached Bill Gates of Microsoft , to discuss the state of home computers and what Microsoft products could do for IBM. However, ironically QDOS was based on Gary Kildall's CP/M. Bill Gates then talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the rights, to market MS-DOS separate from the IBM PC project -
IBM-PC
In July of 1980, IBM representatives met for the first time with Microsoft's Bill Gates to talk about writing an operating system for IBM's new hush-hush "personal" computer. secret plans were referred to as "Project Chess". The code name for the new computer was "Acorn". Twelve engineers, led by William C. Lowe, assembled in Boca Raton, Florida, to design and build the "Acorn". On August 12, 1981, IBM released their new computer, re-named the IBM PC. The "PC" stood for "personal computer" -
Apple Lisa
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers, visited PARC in 1979 (after buying Xerox stock) and was impressed by the "Alto", the first computer ever with a graphical user interface. Several PARC engineers were later hired by Apple and worked on the Apple Lisa and Macintosh. In 1978, Apple Computers started on a business system to complement their successful Apple 2/3 line of home computers. The new project was code named Lisa.The Lisa was finally released in January 1983. -
Cabbage Patch Kids
In 1976, Xavier Roberts invented 'Little Person' dolls, the first Cabbage Patch Kids. Roberts was a teenager when he started the Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia, where people could adopt a baby, complete with adoption papers. Roberts and five friends started the Original Appalachian Artworks company to produce the dolls. The Coleco toy company liked Roberts' ideas and began mass-marketing the dolls in 1983, under the new name of "Cabbage Patch Kids." -
Windows
On November 10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation operating system that would provide a graphical user interface (GUI) and a multitasking environment for IBM computers.That same November in 1983, Bill Gates showed a beta version of Windows to IBM's head honchos. Their response was lackluster probably because they were working on their own operating system called Top View. IBM did not give Microsoft courage. -
Synthetic Skin
This was the invention of G.Gregory Gallico III.The purpose of this invention was to heal parts of the skin that is damaged/hurt and it also prevented cancer.The skin was made out of plastic polymers that has molecules that organizes again and heal parts that are hurt.Other uses for the skin was that it corrects post-burn scars and it was also used on animal models.As time went on synthetic skin evolved to sun screen, barrier cream, and other protective creams. -
Super-Conductor
In 1986, Georg Bednorz and Alex Mueller , working at IBM in Zurich Switzerland, were experimenting with a particular class of metal oxide ceramics called perovskites. Georg Bednorz and Alex Mueller surveyed hundreds of different oxide compounds. Working with ceramics of lanthanum, barium, copper, and oxygen This discovery was very significant because now it became possible to use liquid nitrogenas a coolant. Because these materials superconduct at significantly higher temperatures. -
Prozac
Prozac is the registered trademarked name for fluoxetine hydrochloride and the world's most widely prescribed antidepressant to-date, the first product in a major new class of drugs for depression called selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. Prozac was first introduced to the US market in January 1988. It took two years for Prozac to gain its 'most prescribed' status. -
Doppler Radar
Doppler RADAR is named after Christian Andreas Doppler. Doppler was an Austrian physicist who first described in 1842, how the observed frequency of light and sound waves was affected by the relative motion of the source and the detector. This phenomenon became known as the Doppler effect.Robert Rines is the inventor of high definition radar and the sonogram, a patent attorney, the founder of the Franklin Pierce Law Center and a chaser of the Loch Ness monster.
