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power steering; start of regualr color TV broadcasts; first credit card
start of regular color TV broadcasts; first credit card (Diner's Club) -
salk polio vaccine; 3-D movies
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nuclear-powered submarine; photocell developed
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nuclear-powered electricity generation; fiber optics
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first desktop computer
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Sputnik
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first U.S. satellite
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Russia sends unmanned spacecraft to the moon
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lasers; light-emitting diodes; weather satellites
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China tests nuclear bomb; IBM word processors
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first space walk
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electronic fuel injection; Russians make successful soft landing on the moon
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American manned moon landing; first Concorde SST flight
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microprocessor developed by Intel; Mariner 9 orbits Mars
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CAT scan; photography from satellites;videodisks
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genetic engineering; Skylab orbiting space station launched
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Toronto Communications Tower opens
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birth of the Apple computer; electronic cameras
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Trans-Alaska pipeline system completed
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Skylab, the orbiting space station, falls back to Earth
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solar-powered aircraft
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first launch of reusable space vehicle
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artificial heart
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compact disk player
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DNA fingerprinting
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope deployed by space shuttle Discovery