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1900's timeline
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1902
Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
The birth of the Teddy Bear. -
1921
Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
John Larson invented the lie detector.
1922 -
1930
Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent a jet engine. -
1937
Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
The first jet engine is built -
1940
Dr William Reich invents the orgone accumulator.
Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
Karl Pabst invents the jeep. -
1945
Vannevar Bush proposes hypertext.
The atomic bomb invented. -
1946
The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer. -
1948
The Frisbee invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
Velcro invented by George de Mestral.
Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox. -
1949
cake mix invented -
1952
Mr Potato Head patented.
The first patent for bar code issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
The first diet soft drink sold.
Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb. -
1956
The first computer hard disk used.
The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter. -
1959
the internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
Barbie Doll invented.
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip. -
1965
Astroturf invented.
Soft contact lenses invented.
NutraSweet invented.
The compact disk invented by James Russell.
Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek. -
1975
The laser printer invented.
The push-through tab on a drink can invented. -
1985
Windows program invented by Microsoft. -
1995
The Java computer language invented.
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented. -
2005
YouTube - the online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. YouTube was named Time Magazines Invention of the year in 2006.
Time Magazine Modern Inventions of the Year 2005 -
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