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Science and technology history timelines

year	event
1900	The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
1900	Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
1901	King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
1901	The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
1901	Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
1902	Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
1902	French physicist George Claude invents neon light.
1902	The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
1902	The birth of the Teddy Bear.
1902	George Claude invented neon light.
1903	Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
1903	Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
1903	The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
1903	Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
1903	William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
1904	Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
1904	Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
1904	John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve.
1905	Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
1905	Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
1906	William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
1906	Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device.
1906	Lee Deforest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode).
1907	Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite.
1907	Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
1907	The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
1908	The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
1908	Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
1908	Model T first sold.
1908	J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter.
1908	Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.
1909	Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
1910	Thomas Edison demonstrated the first talking motion picture.
1910	Georges Claude invents neon light.
1911	Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
1912	Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
1912	The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
1912	Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
1913	The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
1913	The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy.
1913	Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
1913	Gideon Sundback invented the modern zipper.
1914	Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
1915	Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
1916	Radios tuners invented, that received different stations.
1916	Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
1917	Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper).
1918	The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Today, every radio or television set uses this invention.
1918	Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
1919	The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
1919	Short-wave radio invented.
1919	The flip-flop circuit invented.
1919	The arc welder invented.
1920	The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
1920	The Band-Aid (pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson.
1921	Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
1921	John Larson invented the lie detector.
1922	Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
1922	The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
1923	Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
1923	The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
1923	John Harwood invented the self-winding watch in 1923.
1923	Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
1924	The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
1924	Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
1926	Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
1927	Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy.
1927	JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
1927	Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
1927	Technicolor invented.
1927	Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
1927	Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
1927	Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
1928	Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1928	Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
1928	Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
1929	American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
1929	Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
1930	Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew.
1930	The frozen food process patented by Clarence Birdseye.
1930	Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents neoprene.
1930	The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
1930	Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine.
1931	Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
1931	Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent the electron microscope.
1932	Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
1932	The zoom lens and the light meter invented.
1932	Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter.
1932	Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope.
1933	Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
1933	Stereo records invented.
1933	Richard M. Hollingshead builds a prototype drive-in movie theater in his driveway.
1934	Englishmen, Percy Shaw invents cat eyes or roads reflectors.
1934	Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
1934	Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
1935	Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon ( polymer 6.6.)
1935	The first canned beer made.
1935	Robert Watson-Watt patented radar.
1936	Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
1936	Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
1937	Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
1937	The first jet engine is built.
1938	The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
1938	Strobe lighting invented.
1938	Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
1938	Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
1938	The first working turboprop engine.
1939	Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
1939	The electron microscope invented.
1940	Dr William Reich invents the orgone accumulator.
1940	Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
1940	Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
1941	Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
1941	Aerosol spray cans invented by American inventors, Lyle David Goodloe and W.N. Sullivan.
1941	Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor.
1942	John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
1942	Max Mueller designs a turboprop engine.
1943	Synthetic rubber invented.
1943	Richard James invents the slinky.
1943	James Wright invent silly putty.
1943	Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
1943	Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
1944	The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
1944	Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
1945	Vannevar Bush proposes hypertext.
1945	The atomic bomb invented.
1946	The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
1947	British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
1947	Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially until 1983, AT&T came up with the idea way back.
1947	Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
1947	Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
1948	The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
1948	Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
1948	Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
1949	Cake mix invented.
1950	The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
1951	Super glue invented.
1951	Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
1951	Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
1952	Mr. Potato Head patented.
1952	The first patent for bar code (US Patent #2,612,994) issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
1952	The first diet soft drink sold.
1952	Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.
1953	Radial tires invented.
1953	The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
1953	David Warren invented the black box - flight recorder.
1953	Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.
1954	Oral contraceptives invented.
1954	The first nonstick pan produced.
1954	The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
1954	Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
1955	Tetracycline invented.
1955	Optic fiber invented.
1956	The first computer hard disk used.
1956	The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
1956	Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter.
1957	Fortran (computer language) invented.
1958	The modem invented.
1958	Gordon Gould invents the laser.
1958	The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
1958	The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1959	The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
1959	Barbie Doll invented.
1959	Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.
1960	The halogen lamp invented.
1961	Valium invented.
1961	The nondairy creamer invented.
1962	The audio cassette invented.
1962	The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
1962	Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
1962	Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.
1963	The first videodisc invented.
1964	Acrylic paint invented.
1964	Permanent-press fabric invented.
1964	BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
1965	Astroturf invented.
1965	Soft contact lenses invented.
1965	NutraSweet invented.
1965	The compact disk invented by James Russell.
1965	Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek.
1966	Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
1967	The first handheld calculator invented.
1968	The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
1968	The first computer with integrated circuits made.
1968	Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
1969	The arpanet (first internet) invented.
1969	The artificial heart invented.
1969	The ATM invented.
1969	The bar-code scanner is invented.
1970	The daisy-wheel printer invented.
1970	The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
1971	The dot-matrix printer invented.
1971	The food processor invented.
1971	The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
1971	The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
1971	VCR or videocassette recorder invented.
1972	The word processor invented.
1972	Pong (first video game) invented by Nolan Bushnell.
1972	Hacky Sack® invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall.
1973	Gene splicing invented.
1973	The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
1973	Bic invents the disposable lighter.
1974	The post-it note invented by Arthur Fry.
1974	Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction.
1975	The laser printer invented.
1975	The push-through tab on a drink can invented.
1976	The ink-jet printer invented.
1977	Magnetic resonance imaging invented by Raymond V. Damadian.
1978	Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston invented the VisiCalc spreadsheet.
1978	The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
1979	Cellular phones invented.
1979	Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray.
1979	Walkman invented.
1979	Scott Olson invents roller blades.
1980	The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.
1981	MS-DOS invented.
1981	The first IBM-PC invented.
1981	The scanning tunneling microscope invented by Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.
1982	Human growth hormone genetically engineered.
1983	The Apple Lisa invented.
1983	Soft bifocal contact lens invented.
1983	First Cabbage Patch Kids sold.
1983	Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual reality".
1984	The CD-ROM invented.
1984	The Apple Macintosh invented.
1985	Windows program invented by Microsoft.
1986	A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller.
1986	Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III.
1986	Fuji introduced the disposable camera.
1987	The first 3-D video game invented.
1987	Disposable contact lenses invented.
1988	Digital cellular phones invented.
1988	The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented.
1988	Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler.
1988	Prozac® invented at the Eli Lilly Company by inventor Ray Fuller.
1988	The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart.
1988	Ralph Alessio and Fredrik Olsen received a patent for the Indiglo ® nightlight. The bluish green light is used to illuminate the entire face of a watch.
1989	High-definition television invented.
1990	The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
1991	The digital answering machine invented.
1992	The smart pill invented.
1993	The pentium processor invented.
1994	HIV protease inhibitor invented.
1995	The Java computer language invented.
1995	DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented.
1997	The gas-powered fuel cell invented.
1998	Viagra invented.

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