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Year |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1937 | - Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
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| 2 | 1938 | - Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
- Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
- The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
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| 3 | 1939 | - Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
- World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
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| 4 | 1940 | - Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
- Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
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| 5 | 1941 | - Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
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| 6 | 1942 | - John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
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| 7 | 1943 | - Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
- James Wright invent silly putty.
- Richard James invents the slinky.
- Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
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| 8 | 1944 | - Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
- The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
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| 9 | 1945 | - Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
- The atomic bomb invented.
- World War II ends.
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| 10 | 1946 | - The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
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| 11 | 1947 | - Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent the transistor.
- British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
- Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
- Mobile phones first invented.
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| 12 | 1948 | - Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
- The Frisbee® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
- Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
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| 13 | 1949 | |
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