The Future of Technology in Science

  • power steering; start of regualr color TV broadcasts; first credit card

    start of regular color TV broadcasts; first credit card (Diner's Club)
  • salk polio vaccine; 3-D movies

  • nuclear-powered submarine; photocell developed

  • nuclear-powered electricity generation; fiber optics

  • first desktop computer

  • Sputnik

  • first U.S. satellite

  • Russia sends unmanned spacecraft to the moon

  • lasers; light-emitting diodes; weather satellites

  • China tests nuclear bomb; IBM word processors

  • first space walk

  • electronic fuel injection; Russians make successful soft landing on the moon

  • American manned moon landing; first Concorde SST flight

  • microprocessor developed by Intel; Mariner 9 orbits Mars

  • CAT scan; photography from satellites;videodisks

  • genetic engineering; Skylab orbiting space station launched

  • Toronto Communications Tower opens

  • birth of the Apple computer; electronic cameras

  • Trans-Alaska pipeline system completed

  • Skylab, the orbiting space station, falls back to Earth

  • solar-powered aircraft

  • first launch of reusable space vehicle

  • artificial heart

  • compact disk player

  • DNA fingerprinting

  • NASA's Hubble Space Telescope deployed by space shuttle Discovery