1961-1970

  • KODAK CAROUSEL Projector

    KODAK CAROUSEL Projector
    Made by Kodak, the projector could hold 80 slides
    Iteration, as it improved on previous projectors
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    SCIENCE 1

  • Nucleur missiles

    Nucleur missiles
    Navy launches USS George Washington. First submarine to carry nuclear missiles.
  • First Human in Space

    First Human in Space
    The Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to enter space and orbit the Earth. The first space craft was launch from Russia. He helped to boost the Soviet space program and intensify the space race with the United States.
  • first video game was created

    first video game was created
    MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club was the birthplace of hacker culture in the early '60s, and one of its members' passions was the PDP-1 computer that had recently been installed at the school. The PDP-1 was about the size of three refrigerators and cost, in 2012 money, about $1 million. In other words, it was very small and ridiculously cheap. Programmer Steve Russell and his fellow proto-nerds took inspiration from the sci-fi novels they loved and came up with Spacewar!,
  • Lap-and-shoulder vehicle safety belt

    Lap-and-shoulder vehicle safety belt
    On July 10, 1962 Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin receives a U.S. patent for the three-point, lap-and-shoulder vehicle safety belt. It's considered one of the most important and widespread safety innovations of all time. Bohlin received letters from all over the world from thankful car-crash survivors.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded.
  • Japan’s Bullet Train Opens

    Japan’s Bullet Train Opens
    The ”Shinkansen” began service on 1 October in time for the Tokyo Olympics. The conventional Limited Express service took six hours and 40 minutes from Tokyo to Osaka, but the Shinkansen made the trip in just four hours, shortened to three hours and ten minutes by 1965.
  • KODAK 2620 Color Printerbegins to use an electronic memory

    KODAK 2620 Color Printerbegins to use an electronic memory
    Between 2,000 to 3,000 prints can be produced per an hour
    Iteration as it improved on existing printers
  • Bar code

    Bar code
    The Bar Code was invented in 1966. The inventor was Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver. It was first used commercially in that year.
  • Artificial Heart

    Artificial Heart
    First artificial heart invented.