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The Laser
In 1960 the Ruby Laser was the first successful light laser. Laser stands for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. It's not sure who invented it but most people think it was Theodore Maiman. -
Jet Injector
It was invented in the early 1960 by Aaron Ismach as a way for treating mass outbreak. The desine eather came in foot powered by electric. It quick came into mass demanded thanks to the U.S. govorment for treating Smallpox and other diseases in small countries. The only downside was it could treat a disease as fast as it could spead it thanks to it soly using one neddle. -
Wearable Computer
Wearable computers can be worn on your body. It's very useful for softwear that requires using your hands. The computer was first thought of in America around 1955. -
First Man to Orbit Space
In April of 1961 The Solviet union sent the first man into space a month before america (2 russia, 1 America). The man Yuri Gagarin went into an orbit for 108 minutes before returning to earth. His main jod was to come back with information on how it felt to be waitless. -
Spacewars
One day a bunch of MIT nerd receved a PDP-1 (basicly a new computer sofware) and had to show off the tecnology some how.the game play involved two people trying to kill eachother while avoiding a gravity well. Gameplay mechanics were introduced into future games like shields, gavity, and fuel. This was one of the first games desined for computers. -
M79 Grenade Launcher
The desin of this weapos was to allow a soilder to carry a powerful explosive devise that was more accurate than a rifle grenade but more moble than a motar. The grenade launcher brought new combate material to the war allowing them to quickly take out a veicle or tank. The desin was easy, reliable, and light weight but was slow to relode and was crap in close range. They later made modles to compensate this like the China Lake Pump-Action and the M203 that could attach to rifles. -
Neutron Bomb
Sometime in 1963 Samuel Cohen invented this thing called teh Neutron Bomb. It was built by the United States to help out with wars. The bomb is designed to release a large portion of its energy as neutron radiation. -
ATM
The idea of a self checking bank has benn around for some time in the U.S.A, England, Sweden, and Japan for some time. Luther George Simjian came up with an early desin called the Bankograph and put in in New York in 1963 but wasn't very susessful. Later Japan, The U.K, and Sweden had greater susess before the idea came back to the U.S.A in 1969. -
Doctor Who
Doctor Who first aired at 5:15 GMT on Saturday November 13rd. The show was veiwed by many people in Britain about a time traveling alien called The Doctor. The show lead to the thought of time travel making people think about creating machines to travel in space and time. -
Cordless Phone
The first version was invented by a jazz Musisian named Teri Pall who quicly had to get rid of ther 2 mile range idea because it interfeared with planes. Later an old WWII clamed a patin to a "full duplex wireless communications appartus". He was working for AT&T Which wasn't to popular at the time and the product didn't come out till the 70s by other comanies like Sony. -
First Hand-Held Calculator
Pat Haggerty thought of the idea while on a buisness trip. He and his had a working modle in december of 1966. The calculator was able to add, subtract, multiply, and division. -
Prototype Mouse
The first prototype for the mderen day mouse was invented in 1963 by Douglas Engelbart. The mouse was made with one vertical wheel and one horizontal mouse making the arrow move on the screen. They were many other desines made for the screen movment like a head mounted mover.The creator to this day still dosn't understand why they called it the mouse. -
Artificial Heart
In 1969, two men inplanted the first clinical heart to fully take over the blood flow. The men Domingo Liotta and Denton A. Cooley replaced a dyings man heart with the device for 64 hours before replacing it with a downers. The patience then died of fungil infection a day lator. -
America Won the Space Race $&?? Yea.
On July 16, 1969, NASA launched it's fifth manned mission in the Apollo program. The crew consisted of three men, Neil Armstrong, the commander. Michael Colins, the Commander module pilot. And Buzz the lunar moduel pilot. The trip in total took about three day to get the moon and back landing in the pacific. THis landing ended the sspace race for America and Russia (Solviet Union). -
TASER!!
Jake Cover began to develope the taser in 1969 and got the finished product in the early 70ds. The desin used electricity to take over volontary (consious) mussle movement causing uncontrolable mussle spasm. It was lator introdused to police as a non leathel weapon to replace shoting people.
