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The war production board approves mass production of penicillin
Penicillin was a newly invented Antibiotic that cleaned wounds and increased surgery survival rates. They wanted to mass produce this to send to the soldiers in europe. -
ENIAC the first super computer, is invented
Students of the university of Pennsylvania invented this thing. It was faster than electro mechanical machines. -
The .203 type automoblie is released
The .203 was actually first shown to the public in a paris car show and then sold to the public -
The self develpoing film camera was invented
Edwin Land invented this,so says the name of the camera, and then was manufactured by polaroid and mass produced -
First frisbee invented
Invented by William fredrick morrison, he got the idea while tossing a cake pan back and forth with his future wife on the beach at santa monica, calfornia -
Park-davis introduces chlormphenicol
Park-Davis was a huge corporation in the drug making business and played a huge role in our medical history, this was hailed as the first breakthrough against tyhoid fever. -
Normand Macleod begins work on the claymore mine
this thing is no joke, it could easily mutilate a limb with its blast. Exactly why it was used in the military as soon as it was finished. -
About 55.7% of american households had a television set
thats alot of production -
A nationwide test of the polio vaccine was conducted
the polio epidemic of the late 40s to mid 50s was a disaster until the vaccine was develpoed. -
Arthur L. Samuel gives a demonstration of artificial intellegence
Yes, the artificial intellegence we are reading about in class is first demonstrated by this guy. -
NASA is formed
Yes, the famous executive branch organization all based on space and aeronautics is formed. -
90% of americans had televisions in their households
And to think these things started being produced in the 40s and got sold so much in 20 years. -
first oral polio vaccine developed by albert sabin
one less injection for all :D -
vaccine for measles developed by Dr. John Franklin Enders
He did it out of infected swabs of dna from his students in his study team -
Dr. Luther Terry released a smoking report to the U.S about the harms of smoking
He said it caused lung cancer, Bronchitus, and other diseases. -
General Electric's porta color tv was introduced
This thing sold till 78 at large amounts a year. -
Dr. Christiaan barnard preformes first succesful heart transplant
This was a shock to all -
The departament of defence launches project have blue
this project was significant to this timeline because this was the launch of the first stealth bomber to be made. -
floppy disk invented by alan shugart
the computer world has changed for a few decades -
Pong was invented by allen alcorn
Allen worked for atari at the time and made pong as a simulation but then decided to make it into a video game -
The first MR image published by Paul Lauterbur
he happened to be a chemist in NYU -
chicken pox vaccine developed by Dr. michiaki takahashi
Yes a china man developed the vaccine to one of the most fast spreading diseases, coinsidence? i think not. -
Mumps vaccine developed by Dr. Jeryl Lynn Strains
i dont know so much about mumps but.... yay no more mumps!! :D -
Hepatitus B vaccine founded by maurice hilman from merck enterprises
she did this by combining three treatments, pepsin,urea,and formaldehyde -
Genetech was the first to experiment with human growth hormones
This was rather odd at the time -
Dr. William Devries implants an artificial heart in patient
the patients name was barney clark and he was inplanted with the jarvik-7 and ived for 112 days -
HIV was found to be infecting AIDS victims
The answer was found by two teams of researchers led by robert galleo and Luc Mantagnier -
windows invented by microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen both changed the world forever -
Fujifilm introduces the first generation of disposable cameras
This is how they make money off tourists -
the first hydrogen cell powered automobile was made
and was also the first attempt of the state to go green -
JAVA was invented by James Gosling
Java is a computer programming language -
DVD was invented and developed by philips, sony, and time warner
this was a memory storage and entertainment revolutionary product -
Web Tv was established
web tv is basicly web series -
Ian wilmut, Keith campbell, and other of their colleauges made the first cloned sheep
the clone was named dolly, and was made from nuclear transfer and an adult somatic cell, -
The FDA approved the lyme disease vaccine
this ended the fear of dying from Lyme Disease without a fight being fought. -
Facebook developed
The day teenage life got better. -
Xbox 360 was released into the u.s
the day my life got an extra goal -
The Playstation 3 system was released into the public
The first few days this was released it got violent to get one -
The Iphone was released to the public in the U.S
Expensive back then but now its only a mere 29 dollars... this is why i want one sooooo bad! -
Ipad was released
Apple's way of making a great thing for business owners :D and more than 300 billion of them were sold in 80 days -
The Nook was released into the public
I thank barnes and noble for such a good E-reader -
world health organization annouced chicken pox has been terminated
No more bumps, no more itch, no more frowns! :D
