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[QUOTE]Originally posted by John91coupe: [QB] Don't forget to mention these rotten old white guys. 1801, Modern Suspension Bridge, James Finley 1853, Potato chips, George Crum 1856, Condensed Milk, Gail Borden 1879, Electric Light Bulb, Thomas Alva Edison 1885, Photographic Film, George Eastman 1887, Disc Record, Emile Berliner 1877, Phonograph, Thomas Alva Edison 1861, Machine Gun, Richard Gatling 1885, Skyscraper, William Le Baron Jenney 1897, Cotton Candy, William Morrison & John C. Wharton 1894, Mousetrap, William C. Hooker 1903, Airplane, Wilbur and Orville Wright 1905, Ice pop, Frank Epperson 1912 the electric traffic light by Lester Wire, a policeman from Salt Lake City. 1926, Liquid-Fuel Rocket, Robert H. Goddard 1929, Sun glasses, Sam Foster 1937, Edwin Land, Polarized sun glasses 1929, Frozen Food, Clarence Birdseye 1930, Chocolate chip cookie, Ruth Wakefield 1937, modern day digital computer was invented by George Stibitz while he was working at Bell Labs. 1938, Nylon, Wallace H. Carothers 1956, Pantyhose, Ernest G. Rice 1939, The fully automatic automobile transmission was invented by General Motors and introduced by Oldsmobile & Cadillac. 1945, Microwave Oven, Percy Spencer 1945, Nuclear Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer 1945, microwave oven, Percy Spencer, an engineer from Maine who was working on the magnetron for radar sets at Raytheon, found out that the microwaves had melted the chocolate in his pocket. 1950, Credit card, Ralph Schneider & Frank X. McNamara 1950, Disposable Diaper, Marion Donovan 1954, Nuclear Submarine, Hyman Rickover 1958, Integrated circuit, 1947, Transistor, Jack Kilby William Shockley 1960, Magnetic stripe card, Forrest Parry 1960 the first LASER was built by Theodore H. Maiman, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California. 1962 the use of Light Emitting Diodes for lighting and image displays by Nick Holonyak Jr., a consulting scientist at General Electric Company in Syracuse, New York. 1965 Compact Disk, by inventor Jack Russel 1968, Lunar Module, Tom Kelly 1969, Laser Printer by Gary Keith Starkweather Xerox’s Webster research Center. 1970 - fiber optic cable was developed by Robert Maurer, Donald Keck, and Peter Schultz, Corning Glass in New York 1971, Personal Computer, John Blankenbaker 1971 Email The first email was sent in 1971 using ARPANET, by Ray Tomlinson. 1973 The first the mobile phone was developed by a team headed by Dr. Martin Cooper. 1981, Space Shuttle, George Mueller 1982 – the Internet Protocol Suite of the US National Science Foundation 1980s - the personal computer - The computer mouse – funded by the US Government - The Charge Coupled Device image sensor and the LCD display where both developed by the RCA Sarnoff Labs under a US Government contract. 1994 – GPS invented by the United States Air Force became operational [/QB][/QUOTE]
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