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Color Televison
In 1940,prior to RCA, CBS researchers led by Peter Goldmark invented a mechanical color televison system based on the 1928 designs of John Logie Baird. -
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Electronic Digital Computer
It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-1942 -
The Atomic Bomb
On August 2, 1939, just before the outbreak of WWII, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
Microwave Oven
like many of today's great inventions, the microwave oven was a by-product of another technology. -
Tupperware
Tupperware was invented by Earl Tupper, a New Hampshire tree surgeon and plastics innovator, who began experimenting with polyethylene. -
Velcro
A Swiss mountaineer called George de Mestral was out walking through the woods. -
Credit Card
In 1950, the Diner's Club issued the first credit card, invented by Diner's Club founder Frank McNamara. -
Super Glue
Super glue is actually a chemical substance called cyanoacrylate that was originally discovered by Dr. Harry Coover. -
Black Box Flight Recorder
David Warren of the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne,Australia was involved in the accident investigations related to the mysterious crash of the world's first jet- powered aircraft, the coment,in 1953. -
McDonald's
A McDonald's restaurant existed before 1954 but it was the introduction of Ray Kroc to the business in 1954 -
Liquid Paper
Bette Nesmith Graham never set out to be an inventor, here vocation in life was to be an artist. -
Hovercraft
The hovercraft was invented by Christopher Cockerell in 1956. -
laser
the first working laser was made by Theodore H. Maiman in 1960 at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu,Califorina. -
Space Flight
The first human spaceflight was undertaken on April 12, 1961, when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made one orbit around the Earth. -
LED
The first practical visible-spectrum(red) LED was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak Jr. -
Computer mouse
Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute invented the mouse in 1963 after extensive usability testing. -
Astroturf
Astroturf was co-invented in 1964 by James M. Faria and Robert T. Wright, employees of Monsanto. -
ATM
De La Rue developed first electronic ATM, which was installed first in Enfield Town in North London, UK on June 27, 1967. -
Floppy Disk
The floppy disk was invented by Alan Shugart. -
Post- It
In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, developed a "low tack", reusable pressure sensitive adhesive. -
Rubik's Cube
The Rubik's Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik. -
GORE-TEX
GORE-TEX is waterproof/breathable fabric and a registered trademark of W.L. Gore & Associates. -
Rollerblades
Two hockey enthuslasts,brothers Scott and Brennan Olson, found an old pair of in line skates in a sporting goods store in Minneapolis. -
The Walkman
The original blue-and-silver Walkman model TPS-L2 went one sale in Japan on July 1, 1979. -
Windows
Windows program was invented by Microsoft. -
Disposable camera
Fuji introduced the disposable camera. -
3-D video game
The world of 3-D video games, any gamer will tell you, is almost as old as video games in color: Nintendo titles in the late 1980s like Rad Racer and 3-D WorldRunner. -
Digital celluar phones
Digital cell phones are the second generation(2G) of cellular technology. -
Prozac
Prozac invented at the Eli Lily Company by inventor Ray Fuller. -
HD television
HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD. -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web and Internet protocol(HTTP) and WWW language(HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee. -
Java
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. -
DVD
DVD is an optical disc storage media format,invented and developed by Philips,Sony,Toshiba. and Panasonic in 1995.
