Most Important Inventions of the mid 1900's.
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From 1940-1970 technology starts picking up speed.
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1.
Lunar Modual by NASA
78 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
2.
Atom Bomb by Otto Frisch, Niels Bohr and Rudolf Peierls
This invention not only ended WWII it ended conventional hand to hand combat.
71 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
3.
Space Travel by NASA
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in Space.
53 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
4.
Development of the Boeing 747 by Boeing
20 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
5.
Solar Battery
This invention wasn't well received until the 2000's.
14 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
6.
Industrial Robot by Victor Scheinman
This invention set off unfounded fears that factory workers would be replaced by robots.
8 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
7.
Pocket Calculator by Texas Instruments
When these were first introduced they were over $100.00 Now you can get a fairly good one for under $10.00
8 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
8.
Laser by Charles Townes
8 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
9.
Microwave Oven by Percy LeBaron Spencer
Sociologists tell us this one invention forever created impatience among human beings.
6 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
10.
Microprocessor by Marcian Edward Ted Hoff
5 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
11.
Microchip by Jack St. Clair Kilby and Robert Norton Noyce
This little chip is called the most important invention since the light bulb.
5 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
12.
Hovercraft by Christopher Cockerell
5 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
13.
Transistor by William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain
5 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
14.
Turbo-Prop Engine by Maxmueller
5 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
15.
Polyethylene terephthalate by J.R. Winfield and J. T. Dickson
The invention of this plastic would come back to haunt society because it wouldn't decompose.
5 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
16.
Sputnik by Russian Government
This one invention starts the space race.
4 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
17.
Test Tube Baby by Drs. Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe
The Catholic Church still considers this unorthodox.
4 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
18.
Cellular Phone by AT & T, Bell Labs and Motorola
4 points - added 13 years ago by JanetK -
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