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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
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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 immediately. |
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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 during 1937-42. |
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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 battleships. |
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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 he was looking for... |
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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, "The Gadget" ushered
in the Atomic Age. |
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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 (invented in 1942)... |
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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 could fly further and with better
accuracy than a tin pie plate. |
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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 to his clothing... |
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