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In 1940, prior to RCA, CBS researchers led by Peter Goldmark invented a mechanical color television system based on the 1928 designs of John Logie Baird.
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Dr. William Reich invents the orgone accumulator.
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During World War I, the U.S. Army needed a fast, lightweight all-terrain vehicle. In 1940, the Army called on the automotive companies to create a working prototype (fitting army specifications) in forty-nine days. Willy’s Truck Company was the first company to create the right prototype. The new vehicle was nicknamed “the Jeep.” General Dwight D. Eisenhower said that America could not have won World War II without it.
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During World War II, the U.S. government funded research into a portable way for service men to spray malaria-carrying bugs. Department of Agriculture researchers, Lyle Goodhue and William Sullivan, developed a small aerosol can pressurized by a liquefied gas (a fluorocarbon) in 1943. It was their design that made products like hair spray possible, along with the work of another inventor Robert Abplanalp.
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The Z3 was completed in Berlin in 1941 by Konrad Zuse. The German Aircraft Research Institute used it to perform statistical analyses of wing flutter.
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John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry create the first electronic digital computer.
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Max Meuller's turboprop engine goes into poduction for the military
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In 1943, Richard James was a naval engineer trying to develop a meter designed to monitor horsepower on naval battleships. Richard was working with tension springs when one of the springs fell to the ground. He saw how the spring kept moving after it hit the ground and an idea for a toy was born.
