1926 |
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1927 |
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1928 |
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1929 |
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American, Paul Galvin invents the
car
radio.
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Yo-Yo
re-invented as an American fad.
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1930 |
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Scotch
tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew.
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The frozen
food process patented by Clarence Birdseye.
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Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents
neoprene.
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The "differential analyzer", or analog
computer
invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
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Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain
both invent a jet
engine.
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1931 |
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1932 |
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Polaroid
photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
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The zoom lens and the light
meter invented.
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Carl C. Magee invents the first
parking
meter.
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Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope.
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1933 |
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1934 |
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Englishmen, Percy Shaw invents cat
eyes or roads reflectors.
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Charles Darrow claims he invented the
game Monopoly.
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Joseph
Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting
- first
magnetic recording.
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1935 |
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Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents
nylon
( polymer 6.6.)
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The first canned
beer made.
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Robert Watson-Watt patented radar.
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1936 |
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Bell Labs invents the voice recognition
machine.
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Samuel Colt patents the Colt
revolver.
|
1937 |
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1938 |
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1939 |
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1940 |
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1941 |
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Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer
controlled by software.
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Aerosol spray
cans invented by American inventors, Lyle David Goodloe and W.N.
Sullivan.
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Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic
reactor.
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1942 |
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1943 |
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Synthetic
rubber invented.
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Richard James invents the slinky.
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James Wright invent silly
putty.
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Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered
the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
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Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent
the aqualung.
|
1944 |
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1945 |
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1946 |
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1947 |
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British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis
Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
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Mobile
phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially
until 1983, AT&T came up with the idea way back.
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Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent
the transistor.
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Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware
seal.
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1948 |
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1949 |
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1950 |
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The first credit
card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
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