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In 1940,prior to RCA, CBS researchers led by Peter Goldmark invented a mechanical color televison system based on the 1928 designs of John Logie Baird.
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It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-1942
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On August 2, 1939, just before the outbreak of WWII, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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like many of today's great inventions, the microwave oven was a by-product of another technology.
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Tupperware was invented by Earl Tupper, a New Hampshire tree surgeon and plastics innovator, who began experimenting with polyethylene.
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A Swiss mountaineer called George de Mestral was out walking through the woods.
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In 1950, the Diner's Club issued the first credit card, invented by Diner's Club founder Frank McNamara.
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Super glue is actually a chemical substance called cyanoacrylate that was originally discovered by Dr. Harry Coover.
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David Warren of the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne,Australia was involved in the accident investigations related to the mysterious crash of the world's first jet- powered aircraft, the coment,in 1953.
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A McDonald's restaurant existed before 1954 but it was the introduction of Ray Kroc to the business in 1954
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Bette Nesmith Graham never set out to be an inventor, here vocation in life was to be an artist.
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The hovercraft was invented by Christopher Cockerell in 1956.
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the first working laser was made by Theodore H. Maiman in 1960 at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu,Califorina.
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The first human spaceflight was undertaken on April 12, 1961, when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made one orbit around the Earth.
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The first practical visible-spectrum(red) LED was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak Jr.
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Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute invented the mouse in 1963 after extensive usability testing.
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Astroturf was co-invented in 1964 by James M. Faria and Robert T. Wright, employees of Monsanto.
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De La Rue developed first electronic ATM, which was installed first in Enfield Town in North London, UK on June 27, 1967.
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The floppy disk was invented by Alan Shugart.
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In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, developed a "low tack", reusable pressure sensitive adhesive.
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The Rubik's Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik.
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GORE-TEX is waterproof/breathable fabric and a registered trademark of W.L. Gore & Associates.
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Two hockey enthuslasts,brothers Scott and Brennan Olson, found an old pair of in line skates in a sporting goods store in Minneapolis.
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The original blue-and-silver Walkman model TPS-L2 went one sale in Japan on July 1, 1979.
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Windows program was invented by Microsoft.
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Fuji introduced the disposable camera.
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The world of 3-D video games, any gamer will tell you, is almost as old as video games in color: Nintendo titles in the late 1980s like Rad Racer and 3-D WorldRunner.
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Digital cell phones are the second generation(2G) of cellular technology.
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Prozac invented at the Eli Lily Company by inventor Ray Fuller.
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HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD.
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The World Wide Web and Internet protocol(HTTP) and WWW language(HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
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Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform.
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DVD is an optical disc storage media format,invented and developed by Philips,Sony,Toshiba. and Panasonic in 1995.
