The Future of Technology in Science By 2013emilyzheng May 14, 1950 power steering; start of regualr color TV broadcasts; first credit card start of regular color TV broadcasts; first credit card (Diner's Club) May 14, 1952 salk polio vaccine; 3-D movies May 14, 1954 nuclear-powered submarine; photocell developed May 14, 1955 nuclear-powered electricity generation; fiber optics May 14, 1956 first desktop computer May 14, 1957 Sputnik May 14, 1958 first U.S. satellite May 14, 1959 Russia sends unmanned spacecraft to the moon May 14, 1960 lasers; light-emitting diodes; weather satellites May 14, 1964 China tests nuclear bomb; IBM word processors May 14, 1965 first space walk May 14, 1966 electronic fuel injection; Russians make successful soft landing on the moon May 14, 1969 American manned moon landing; first Concorde SST flight May 14, 1971 microprocessor developed by Intel; Mariner 9 orbits Mars May 14, 1972 CAT scan; photography from satellites;videodisks May 14, 1973 genetic engineering; Skylab orbiting space station launched May 14, 1974 Toronto Communications Tower opens May 14, 1976 birth of the Apple computer; electronic cameras May 14, 1977 Trans-Alaska pipeline system completed May 14, 1979 Skylab, the orbiting space station, falls back to Earth May 14, 1980 solar-powered aircraft May 14, 1981 first launch of reusable space vehicle May 14, 1982 artificial heart May 14, 1984 compact disk player May 14, 1986 DNA fingerprinting May 14, 1990 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope deployed by space shuttle Discovery