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About Walter Zinn
On December 20, 1951, the nuclear power reactor was invented by Walter Zinn. -
On April 7, 1953 IBM publicly introduced the 701, its first electric computer and first mass produced computer. Later IBM introduced its first personal computer called the IBM PC in 1981.
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Videotape Recorder
Videotape recorder invented by Ampex Company. -
Sputnik
Sputnik I was launched by the Russians. -
Sputnik II
Sputnik II is launched by the Russians. -
On November 3, 1957,the Soviets launched a space dog into outer space who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth.
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Optical disc was invented by David Paul Gregg.
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Integrated Circuit
The first integrated circuit, or silicon chip, is produced by the US Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce. -
Bibliography
The laser was invented by Theodore Harold Maiman. -
NASA
Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space. -
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The Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) was invented by John Shepherd-Barron. -
Video Game History
The video game console was invented by Ralph H. Baer. -
NASA
Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon. -
The first Internet message was sent from computer science Professor Leonard KleinRock's laboratory at UCLA, after the second piece of network equipment was installed at SRI. This connection not only enabled the first transmission to be made, but is also considered to be the first Internet backbone.
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Intel introduces the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004 on November 15, 1971.
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On March 10, 1973, the Space Theater at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center opened to the public, featuring America's first IMAX Theater and the first "tilted dome" planetarium in the world.
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Martin Cooper, a Motorola engineer and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment in front of reporters, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Martin Cooper weighed 2.5 pounds and measured 9 inches long, 5 inches deep and 1.75 inches wide. The prototype offered a talk time of just 30 minutes and took 10 hours to re-charge.
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Ethernet was invented by Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs.
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The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer, which was released on September 1975. The computer weighed 55 pounds and had a five inch CRT display, tape drive, 1.9MHz PALM processor, and 64KB of RAM.
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The first generation Sony Walkman was released to the public on July 1st, 1979. Before the Walkman was introduced, music could only be enjoyed through a stereo system at home or a car audio system.
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The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Microsoft released Windows amid a $10 million publicity blitz. In addition to making sure consumers knew about the product, Microsoft lined up a number of other applications ahead of time that ran under Windows 3.0, including versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
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The CD-R, released by Phillips and Sony, is an optical disk format. CD-R media can only be written on once. The disks generally hold around 650 MB of data.
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Dolly, a Finn Dorset sheep, was born on July 5th, 1996, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her birth, not revealed to the public until February 3rd, 1997, sparked controversy instantly, because Dolly was the world's first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.
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Laptops or portable computers began able to access the Internet through Wifi.
