Inventions and New Innovations Timeline for Kids
(1945 - 1991)
Following WW2 was the period when many scientific
advances were made in space exploration, weaponry, electronics,
computers and medicine. The New Innovations and inventions of the Cold War era can be seen in the
short, New Innovations timeline for kids. Click the links for more comprehensive
articles on the inventions and the inventors of the Cold War period
(1945 - 1991).
New Innovations
Timeline: Main Inventions, Dates and Events (1945 - 1991)
New Innovations Inventions:
1945 -
The WW2
Manhattan Project, under J. Robert Oppenheimer, produce the
plutonium and uranium-235 necessary for nuclear fission
which leads to US development of the
Atomic Bomb.
New Innovations Inventions:
1945 -
John Presper
Eckert & John W. Mauchly developed the Electronic
Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) to make
military calculations.
New Innovations Inventions:
1945 -
First
vaccine developed for influenza
New Innovations Inventions:
1946 -
US banker John C.
Biggins of the Flatbush National Bank of Brooklyn
invents the first bank-issued credit card
New Innovations Inventions:
1946 -
F.C. Williams
developed the cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the
forerunner to random-access memory (RAM)
New Innovations Inventions:
1947 -
Alan
Turing and Donald Watts Davies build the Pilot ACE
digital computer
New Innovations Inventions:
1947 -
Dr.
Claude Beck invents the defibrillator
New Innovations Inventions:
1947 -
The
first manned supersonic flight where the sound barrier
was broken was flown by US Air Force Captain Chuck
Yeager in the Bell X-1.
New Innovations Inventions:
1947 -
Douglas Engelbart
theorized on interactive computing with keyboard and
screen display instead of using punch cards
New Innovations Inventions:
1947 -
US physicists
Waler H. Brattain, John Bardeen and William Shockley
invent the transistor at Bell Labs making it possible to
miniaturize calculators and radios.
New Innovations Inventions:
1948 -
Andrew
Donald Booth invented magnetic drum memory
New Innovations Inventions:
1948 -
American
aeronautical engineer Francis Rogallo invented Rogallo's
flexible wing, which was tested by
NASA as a steerable
parachute to retrieve Gemini space capsules
New Innovations Inventions:
1948 -
Cable
television was developed in Pennsylvania by John Walson
and Margaret Walson.
New Innovations Inventions:
1948 -
The
first hand dryer was invented by George Clemens for use
in public restrooms
New Innovations Inventions:
1949 -
Howard
Aiken develops the Harvard-MARK III at Harvard
University for the U.S. Navy.
New Innovations Inventions:
1949 -
Willard
F. Libby invented the procedure for Radiocarbon dating
New Innovations Inventions:
1949 -
The
first atomic clock built at the United States National
Bureau of Standards
New Innovations Inventions:
1950 -
John Hopps invents the first cardiac
pacemaker
New Innovations Inventions:
1950 -
Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac
pacemaker
New Innovations Inventions:
1950 -
Hideo Yamachito creates the first
electronic computer in Japan
New Innovations Inventions:
1950 -
The teleprompter was invented by
Hubert Schlafly
New Innovations Inventions:
1950 -
Rosalind Franklin used X-ray
diffraction to study the structure of DNA
New Innovations Inventions:
1950 -
Jonas
Salk developed the first polio vaccine
New Innovations Inventions:
1951 -
The Universal
Automatic Computer (UNIVAC I) was the first commercial
computer made in the United States and designed by John
Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly
New Innovations Inventions:
1951 -
LEO: the first UK
business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) is
developed by T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons
New Innovations Inventions:
1951 -
The wetsuit was
invented by the University of California at Berkeley
physicist Hugh Bradner.
New Innovations Inventions:
1952 -
USA
tests its first hydrogen bomb - the Mike Shot
thermonuclear device
New Innovations Inventions:
1952 -
Norman
Joseph Woodland invented the barcode
New Innovations Inventions:
1954 -
Gertrude
Elion patents a drug to fight leukemia
New Innovations Inventions:
1954 -
IBM and
John Backus develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming
Language
New Innovations Inventions:
1954 -
Bryce K.
Brown invented the radar gun to detect the speed of
objects
New Innovations Inventions:
1954 -
Dee
Horton and Lew Hewitt invented the automatic sliding
door
New Innovations Inventions:
1954 -
Dr.
Joseph E. Murray performed the first kidney transplant
New Innovations Inventions:
1955 -
The
first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus SSN 571
was developed
New Innovations Inventions:
1955 -
Bell Labs introduced its first
transistor computer.
New Innovations Inventions:
1956 -
George
Devol and Joseph F. Engelberger were the first to invent
an industrial robot.
New Innovations Inventions:
1957 -
USSR
launch Sputnik I and Sputnik 2, the world's first artificial satellites
New Innovations Inventions:
1957 -
The
Cold War Space
Race begins (1957 - 1975)
New Innovations Inventions:
1957 -
USA
tests its first intercontinental ballistic missile
New Innovations Inventions:
1958 -
Dr.
Roger Bacon invented the first high-performance carbon
fibers
New Innovations Inventions:
1958 -
ARPA
(Advanced Research Projects Agency) is formed
New Innovations Inventions:
1958 -
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is formed
New Innovations Inventions:
1958 -
The
Silicon chip, the first integrated circuit, is produced
in the US by the Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
New Innovations Inventions:
1959 -
Philo T.
Farnsworth invented the fusor apparatus to create
nuclear fusion.
New Innovations Inventions:
1959 -
Paul
Baran theorized on the "survivability of communication
systems under nuclear attack"
New Innovations Inventions:
1960 -
USA
Corona Spy Satellite - successful recovery of
photographs from space
New Innovations Inventions:
1960 -
The
Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming
language is invented.
New Innovations Inventions:
1960 -
American
physicist Theodore H. Maiman created the first laser.
New Innovations Inventions:
1960 -
Dr.
Gregory Pincus invented the combined oral contraceptive
pill (the Pill"
New Innovations Inventions:
1960 -
The
first Global navigation satellite system called Transit,
was developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory under the leadership of Richard
Kershner.
New Innovations Inventions:
1961 -
Alan
Shepherd became the first American, to travel into space
on Freedom 7
New Innovations Inventions:
1962 -
Nick
Holonyak Jr. invented the first practical
visible-spectrum LED
New Innovations Inventions:
1962 -
American
aerospace engineer John Robinson Pierce working at NASA
launched Telstar, the world's first active
communications satellite designed to transmit telephone
and high-speed data communication
New Innovations Inventions:
1963 -
ASCII: The
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
(ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange
amongst computers
New Innovations Inventions:
1963 -
The
first computer mouse is invented by Douglas Engelbart
New Innovations Inventions:
1963 -
The
first computer mouse is invented by Douglas Engelbart
New Innovations Inventions:
1962 -
The
first computer game 'Spacewar Computer Game' was
invented by Steve Russell at MIT
New Innovations Inventions:
1962 -
USSR
launches Zenit Spy Satellite, takes photographs above
the USA
New Innovations Inventions:
1964 -
John
Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginners All-purpose
Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC)
New Innovations Inventions:
1964 -
IBM
introduces the first word processor
New Innovations Inventions:
1964 -
The
First vaccine is developed for measles.
New Innovations Inventions:
1965 -
Paul C.
Fisher invented the space pen which was tested at NASA,
and was used during the Apollo 7 mission in 1968.
New Innovations Inventions:
1965 -
Andries
van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext"
New Innovations Inventions:
1967 -
The
first human heart transplant is conducted by Dr.
Christiaan Barnard
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Timeline: Main Inventions, Dates and Events (1945 - 1991)
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New Innovations
Timeline: Main Inventions, Dates and Events (1945 - 1991)
Inventions
Timeline: 1968 -
USA
develops MIRV systems that put several warheads on a
single launcher to strike widely dispersed targets
Inventions
Timeline: 1968 -
USA
launched the Apollo 8 Manned Moon Orbit
Inventions
Timeline: 1969 -
USA
places First Man on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in Apollo 11 lunar module
Inventions
Timeline: 1969 -
George
Sweigert received a patent for the cordless telephone
Inventions
Timeline: 1969 -
Seymour
Cray developed the CDC 7600, the first supercomputer
Inventions
Timeline: 1969 -
Gary
Starkweather invented the laser printer working with
Xerox
Inventions
Timeline: 1969 -
Joe
Sutter of The Boeing Company designed the world's first
wide-body aircraft, the Boeing 747
Inventions
Timeline: 1969 -
The U.S.
Department of Defense established the Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network (ARPANET ) creating a computer
network that could withstand any type of disaster.
ARPANET created the first building blocks to the
internet
Inventions
Timeline: 1970 -
The
first vaccine is developed for rubella
Inventions
Timeline: 1970 -
Intel introduced
the world's first available dynamic RAM (random-access
memory) chip and the Intel 4004, the first
microprocessor.
Inventions
Timeline: 1971 -
Ray
Tomlinson invented E-mail
Inventions
Timeline: 1971 -
James
Fergason invented Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)
Inventions
Timeline: 1971 -
The
Floppy Disk, nicknamed the "Floppy" due to its
flexibility, was invented by David Noble with IBM
Inventions
Timeline: 1973 -
Robert
Metcalfe and David Boggs create the Ethernet, a
local-area network (LAN) protocol
Inventions
Timeline: 1973 -
Martin
Cooper invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone
(cell phone).
Inventions
Timeline: 1973 -
The
minicomputer Xerox Alto became a landmark in the
development of personal computers.
Inventions
Timeline: 1973 -
Vint
Cerf and Bob Kahn develop gateway routing computers
(Gateways) to negotiate between the various national
networks
New
Innovations: 1973 -
The
first voicemail system was invented by Stephen J. Boies.
New
Innovations: 1974 -
The
First vaccine is developed for chicken pox
New
Innovations: 1974 -
IBM
developed SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language )
known as SQL
New
Innovations: 1974 -
Charles
Simonyi coins the phrase WYSIWYG (What You See Is What
You Get) to describe the ability to display a file or
document exactly how it is going to be viewed or printed
Inventions
Timeline: 1975 -
USA /
USSR First multi-national manned missions ended the Cold
War Space Race
Inventions
Timeline: 1975 -
Engineer
Steven Sasson working at Eastman Kodak invented the
first digital camera using a CCD image sensor
Inventions
Timeline: 1975 -
CAT-Scans are invented by Robert S. Ledley
Inventions
Timeline: 1975 -
Bill Gates and Paul Allen found the
Microsoft Corporation to develop and sell BASIC
interpreters for the Altair 8800
Inventions
Timeline: 1975 -
Altair
produces the first portable computer
Inventions
Timeline: 1976 -
Steve
Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computers.
Inventions
Timeline: 1977 -
Ward
Christensen writes the "MODEM" program allowing two
microcomputers to exchange files with each other over a
telephone line
Inventions
Timeline: 1978 -
The
First vaccine developed for meningitis
Inventions
Timeline: 1978 -
The
First test-tube baby was born
Inventions
Timeline: 1981 -
The
First vaccine is developed for hepatitis B
Inventions
Timeline: 1983 -
Microsoft Windows
are introduced to eliminate the need to type each
command, like MS-DOS, by using a mouse to navigate
through drop-down menus, tabs and icons
Inventions
Timeline: 1983 -
HIV, the
virus that causes AIDS, is identified
Inventions
Timeline: 1983 -
The
Domain Name System (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel, Paul
Mockapetris and Craig Partridge
Inventions
Timeline: 1983 -
Strategic Defense
Initiative (SDI) - Star Wars
Inventions
Timeline: 1985 -
The
artificial kidney dialysis machine is invented by Willem
J. Kolff
Inventions
Timeline: 1990 -
Tim Berners-Lee
and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system
starting the modern Internet and the World Wide Web
Inventions
Timeline: 1991 -
The
World Wide Web is launched on August 6, 1991
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