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Technological Revolution
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UNIVAC
U.S. Census Bureau wanted a new machine for tabulating its data and in 1951 took delivery of a Universal Automatic Computer or UNIVAC https://goo.gl/p6rezN. https://goo.gl/vsKGFv -
Direct Dial
The first transcontinental direct dial phone call was achieved in 1951. https://goo.gl/gMGtRw .
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Presidential Election
In 1952, CBS borrowed UNIVAC and used it to correctly predict Eisenhower's victory over Stevenson from the early results of the presidential election. https://goo.gl/p6rezN. https://goo.gl/HW8VTL -
Hydrogen bomb
By November 1, 1952, researchers were ready to explode the first Super, now known more officially as the hydrogen bomb. https://goo.gl/p6rezN.
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H-Bomb in Siberia
on 12 August 1953, the Soviets set off an H-bomb of their own in Siberia. https://goo.gl/p6rezN.
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Antihistamines
In 1955 the invention of antihistamines to remedy the effects of allergies was created. Meprobamate, the first tranquilizer, began to be marketed. https://goo.gl/p6rezN.
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Salk Vaccine
12 April 1955, researchers announced that the Salk vaccine had proven effective in preventing polio. https://goo.gl/p6rezN. https://goo.gl/QjteSo -
Sputnik
October 1957, Sputnik, the first man-made satellite to orbit Earth. It was passing over the United States every 92 minutes as it whizzed around the planet at 18,000 miles an hour. And it was a Russian creation. https://goo.gl/p6rezN.
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Kaputnik
December 1957, the US tried to launch a tiny 3-pound satellite. But the Navy Vanguard rocket disintegrated on the launch pad, and newspaper headlines labeled the failed test "kaputnik," "flopnik," and "stayputnik." https://goo.gl/p6rezN.
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NASA
In 1958, Eisenhower centralized all space efforts in a civilian agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). https://goo.gl/rufxGv.
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First Commercial Satellite
By 1962, some governments had already launched satellites, largely to carry out extraterrestrial experiments. That year, though, the first commercial satellite went into orbit, forever changing the face of communications. https://goo.gl/gMGtRw. https://goo.gl/r59u85 -
LED
1962 that the first LED was created. https://goo.gl/gMGtRw. https://goo.gl/3VjmLw.
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Network Control Protocol
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) began development on a new protocol called Network Control Protocol and made its first connection on a fateful day in 1969. This early internet protocol, which is just way of determining how computers function together, led to the creation of ARPAnet. https://goo.gl/gMGtRw.
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Floppy Disk Introduce
IDM introduced the Floppy Disk commercially. Made by David Noble-It the intended use is to store data in it's computer's. https://goo.gl/dUM4eC.
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GMO's invented
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Email invented
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Cell phone invented
The cell phone was invented by Martin Cooper for Motorola. This was the first handheld mobile phone. https://goo.gl/WHHzIe. https://goo.gl/CLak8h -
Digital Camera invented
Digital camera invented by Steve Sasson, now it took only 23 seconds to commit the picture through the tape. https://goo.gl/MZ9luK.
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Home Computer popularized
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Walkman Introduced
Sony introduced the Sony Walkman TPS-L2, a portable cassette player https://goo.gl/mcI7Rh.
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Hepatitis b vaccine invented
This new vaccine, invented by Pablo DT Valenzuela, was used to help fight Hepatitis B and is still used today. https://goo.gl/OyVjeD. https://goo.gl/cIJ5AS -
NASA launched the first space shuttle
The first space shuttle Enterprise, was rolled out in September 1976. Enterprise made some glide flights in 1977, but never reached space. However, the second orbiter to come off the line did. Columbia blasted off on April 12, 1981. https://goo.gl/611hQU
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CD-ROM invented
Co-developed by Sony and Philips, The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data https://goo.gl/Y3SMJ5
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First artificial heart transplanted
A Seattle dentist named Barney Clark becomes the first human recipient of a permanent artificial heart. He survives the heart, for 112 days. https://goo.gl/B98JGV
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The Doppler Radar invented
The Doppler radar has been invented since 1842, but the Doppler radar used today was invented in 1988 (WRS-88D), and is still used by the National Weather Service. https://goo.gl/pjsVI2
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The Hubble Space Telescope Was Launched
Hubble, the observatory, is the first major optical telescope to be placed in space,
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The Human Genome Project
Completed in April 2003, the HGP gave us the ability, for the first time, to read nature's complete genetic blueprint for building a human being.
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Second generation (2G) cell phones
Second generation (2G) cell phones came about in the 1990s after the first GSM network was launched in Finland. 2G service used digital transmission instead of analog and lead to the advent of SMS messaging. It also laid the foundation for 3G coverage and mobile data usage.
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The World Wide Web Was Created
The “world wide web”. was first proposed by Sir Tim Berners Lee of CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in 1989. By 1990, the proposal had grown to include a read-only system of distributed document linking called hypertext, which was based on a markup language called HTML.
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Linus Torvalds announced his program Linux to the public
Perhaps the most well-known open-source software, Linux was initially released by Linus Torvalds in 1991. Linux is still in development today.
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The MQ-1 Predator aircraft had its first flight
The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator is an American remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) built by General Atomics and used primarily by the United States Air Force (USAF) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). https://goo.gl/zBPEQx
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Java Programming Language
995 saw the first appearance of the Java programming language. Originally developed by Sun Micro-systems, it is now owned by Oracle since Sun was acquired in 2010.
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The digital video disc (DVD)
Appeared in the mid to late 1990s. The superior picture and sound of the DVD helped it quickly disrupt the existing VHS tape market.
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Amazon Launched
Amazon launches in July, having been established a year earlier, as an online book retailer.
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Ebay launched
September 1995, Pierre Omidyar launched a site called Auction Web, which would evolve to be the eBay we know today
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iMac
iMac was launched in 1998 and today it has become one of the most popular desktop computers in the world. The iMac was projected as an "out of the box" computer experience, and it actually became one because of its unique design and cool features
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Minimally Invasive and Robotic Techniques Revolutionize Surgery
Ten years ago a patient would typically be left with a 10-inch scar when a doctor removed a kidney, but in late 2007 the surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic began removing kidneys through a single incision in the patient's navel. https://goo.gl/AET3w6
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USB Flash Drive
Although not commercially available until 2000, the creation and subsequent patents for the USB flash drive came about in 1999. Initially sold with a capacity of a few megabytes, current models can carry hundreds of gigabytes.
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FMRI machine
The first ever medical FMRI machine was introduced to society
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US Govt passes the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act
Probably no area of research has so fired the public imagination and so ignited the fires of public controversy as that of stem cell research. https://goo.gl/Pwj00p
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