Colour Television (1940)
In 1940, prior to RCA, CBS researchers led by Peter Goldmark invented a mechanical color television system based on the 1928 designs of John Logie Baird.

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The Jeep (1940)
Following a tender put out by the US Army during the Second World War, Karl Pabst of Willy’s Truck Company invented the first Jeep, which was put into production...

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Electronic Digital Computer (1942)
The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University...

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The Slinky (1943)
Richard James and Betty James invented the slinky in 1943. Richard James was a naval engineer trying to develop a meter designed to monitor horsepower on naval...

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Silly Putty (1943)
The history of silly putty is quite amusing. In 1943 James Wright, an engineer, was attempting to create a synthetic rubber. He was unable to achieve the properties...

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The Atomic Bomb (1945)
At 5:29:45 (Mountain War Time) on July 16, 1945, in a white blaze that stretched from the basin of the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico to the still-dark skies...

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The Microwave Oven (1946)
It was during a radar-related research project around 1946 that Dr. Percy Spencer, a self-taught engineer with the Raytheon Corporation, noticed something very unusual...

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Tupperware (1947)
Tupperware was invented by Earl Tupper, a New Hampshire tree surgeon and plastics innovator, who began experimenting with polyethylene, a new material...

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The Frisbee (1948)
In 1948, a Los Angeles building inspector named Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic version of the Frisbie that...

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Velcro (1948)
1948, and a Swiss mountaineer called George de Mestral was out walking through the woods. He returned home covered with burrs that had attached themselves...

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