Engineering Timeline

By vigran

  • Air Bag

    Air Bag
    John W. Hetrick Invents first air bag

  • Artifical Human Heart

    Artifical Human Heart
    41-year-old Henry Opitek is considered to be the first operational mechanical heart successfully used while performing heart surgery.

  • Sputnik Launched

    Sputnik Launched
    First artificial satilltie

  • Integrated Circut

    Integrated Circut
    Invented by both Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor working independently of each other

  • Laser

    Laser
    Fisrt succesful laser developed by Theodore Maiman

  • Internet

    Internet
    Project MAC starts at MIT, The basis for the internet

  • Man Lands on the Moon

    Man Lands on the Moon
    Apollo 11 Lands on the moon

  • CD-Rom

    CD-Rom
    James T. Russell invents CD-ROM

  • Datapoint 2200

    Datapoint 2200
    First personal computer

  • Concorde

    Concorde
    First commerical supersonic transatlantic flight

  • Fiber Optic

    Fiber Optic
    Telephone companies start doing tests with fiber optic cables

  • Columbia

    Columbia
    First space craft to be launched and be able to be reused

  • Windows

    Windows
    Windows 1.0 released

  • Chernobyl

    Chernobyl
    Chernobyl Meltdown

  • Lamborghini Diablo

    Lamborghini Diablo
    First production car to reach 200 mph