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Century of Inventions 1900 - 1999
Timeline of inventions of the 20th century (1900 to 1925).
1902
- Air Conditioning
Invented in 1902 by Willis Carrier, "The Father Of Cool".
1902
- Neon
Georges Claude's invention created color and light.
1904
- Monopoly
The most popular board game in the world has a controversial past.
1913
- MDMA
The Merck Chemical Company patented what is now know as ecstasy in
1913.
1921-
Robots
Artificial life begins.
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Century of Inventions 1900 - 1999
Timeline of inventions of the 20th century (1926 to 1950).
1929
- Yo-Yo
What goes up must come down, with this great toy fad.
1931
- Neoprene
Wallace Hume Carothers and the Dupont Research Team invented rubber.
1933
- Drive-In Movie Theater
Richard M. Hollingshead built the prototype in his driveway.
1935
- Nylon
Wallace Hume Carothers and the Dupont Research Team invented nylon.
1936 To
Present - The History Of Modern Computers
From Apple to Xerox, or should we say it the other way round.
1938
- Ball-Point Pen
Invented by Ladislo Biro, have you ever tried writing in a plane going
upside down.
1940
- Orgone Accumulator
The U.S. government wanted to destroy Dr William Reich's invention.
1947
- Mobile/Cellular Phones
How the FCC slowed the progress of a cellular phone system.
1947
- Transistor
Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley advanced electronics greatly with the
invention of the transistor.
1948
- VELCRO®
George de Mestral invented this modern fabric fastener, designed after
a plant.
1948
- Frisbee®
Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni made the pie plates
fly with this popular toy.
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Century of Inventions 1900 - 1999
Timeline of inventions of the 20th century (1951 to 1975).
1954
- Fortran
John Backus and IBM create the first high level computer programming
language.
1954
- Geodesic Dome
Richard Buckminster Fuller invented the building design of the century.
1958
- Integrated Circuit
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invented what some consider as one of the
most important inventions of the twentieth century.
1962
- Computer Game
Invented at MIT by Steve Russell.
1962
- Lava Lite®
Craven Walker invented the groovy Lava Lite.
1964
- Computer Mouse
Douglas Engelbart called his invention a mouse because the cord from
the mouse to the computer looked like a tail.
1969
- Internet
The internet began with just four remotely connected devices.
1970
- DRAM
Intel brought us computer memory on a chip.
1971
- "Floppy" Disk
IBM and Alan Shugart, named this portable storage device foe computers
after its' flexibility.
1971
- Microprocessor
Inventors Faggin, Hoff and Mazor revolutionized computers.
1973
- Ethernet
Xerox and Robert Metcalfe invented network computing, known as LANs.
1974
- Rubik's Cube
Hungarian Enro Rubik invented this popular puzzle.
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Century of Inventions 1900 - 1999
Timeline of inventions of the 20th century (1951 to 1975).
1979
- Word Star
The first popular word processor.
1979
- Cellular/Mobile Phones
How the FCC slowed the progress of a cellular phone system.
1981
- MS-DOS
Microsoft starts ruling the world with their disk operating sytem for
personal computers.
1983
- Apple Lisa
The first home computer with a GUI, graphical user interface.
1984
- Apple MacIntosh
The famous Apple home computer.
1985
- Windows
Microsoft's graphical user interface for personal computers.
1988
- Prozac®
The Eli Lilly Company and inventor Ray Fuller tried to make the world
a happier place.
1988
- Digital Cellular Phones
PCS Technology also called Personal Communication Services or digital
cellular phones.
1997
- Teleoperated Surgical Instrument
Akhil Madhani, was honored with the Lemelson-MIT Award for for his
Black Falcon teleoperated surgical instrument.
1998 - Viagra®
The patenting of an aphrodisiac.
1999 - Tekno Bubbles
Tekno Bubbles are a rave innovative variation on the old blowing bubbles,
but these bubbles glow under black lights and can smell like raspberries.
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