Modern Inventions of the 20th Century: The 1980's

| Home | Culture | Inventions | 1980's Inventions

The History of Modern InventionYou might be suprised by just how many things were invented when we were kids

Inventions of the 1980's

	First Artificial Human Heart (1982) On December 2, 1982, Dr. William DeVries implanted an artificial heart into retired dentist Dr. Barney Bailey Clark (b. 21 January 1921), who survived 112 days... (Read More...)
	The CD-ROM (1985) CD-ROM (an abbreviation of "Compact Disc read-only memory") is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible but not writable by a computer... (Read More...)
	The Apple Macintosh (1984) The Macintosh 128K was released on January 24, 1984. It was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a graphical user interface... (Read More...)
	The Windows Operating System (1985) The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released on 20 November 1985, lacked a degree of functionality and achieved little popularity... (Read More...)
	The Disposable Camera (1986) The disposable camera was first developed by Fujifilm in 1986. Their Utsurun-Desu ("It takes pictures") or QuickSnap line used 35 mm film, while Eastman Kodak's 1987... (Read More...)
Also invented in the 1980s...