Engineering Timeline

By vigran
  • Air Bag

    Air Bag

    John W. Hetrick Invents first air bag
  • Artifical Human Heart

    Artifical Human Heart

    41-year-old Henry Opitek is considered to be the first operational mechanical heart successfully used while performing heart surgery.
  • Sputnik Launched

    Sputnik Launched

    First artificial satilltie
  • Integrated Circut

    Integrated Circut

    Invented by both Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor working independently of each other
  • Laser

    Laser

    Fisrt succesful laser developed by Theodore Maiman
  • Internet

    Internet

    Project MAC starts at MIT, The basis for the internet
  • Man Lands on the Moon

    Man Lands on the Moon

    Apollo 11 Lands on the moon
  • CD-Rom

    CD-Rom

    James T. Russell invents CD-ROM
  • Datapoint 2200

    Datapoint 2200

    First personal computer
  • Concorde

    Concorde

    First commerical supersonic transatlantic flight
  • Fiber Optic

    Fiber Optic

    Telephone companies start doing tests with fiber optic cables
  • Columbia

    Columbia

    First space craft to be launched and be able to be reused
  • Windows

    Windows

    Windows 1.0 released
  • Chernobyl

    Chernobyl

    Chernobyl Meltdown
  • Lamborghini Diablo

    Lamborghini Diablo

    First production car to reach 200 mph