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.

1945: John Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly developed the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) to make military calculations.

1945: First vaccine developed for influenza

1946: US banker John C. Biggins of the Flatbush National Bank of Brooklyn invents the first bank-issued credit card

1946: F.C. Williams developed the cathode-ray tube (CRT) storing device the forerunner to random-access memory (RAM)

1947: Alan Turing and Donald Watts Davies build the Pilot ACE digital computer

1947: Dr. Claude Beck invents the defibrillator

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.

1947: Douglas Engelbart theorized on interactive computing with keyboard and screen display instead of using punch cards

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.

1948: Andrew Donald Booth invented magnetic drum memory

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

1948: Cable television was developed in Pennsylvania by John Walson and Margaret Walson.

1948: The first hand dryer was invented by George Clemens for use in public restrooms

1949: Howard Aiken develops the Harvard-MARK III at Harvard University for the U.S. Navy.

1949: Willard F. Libby invented the procedure for Radiocarbon dating

1949: The first atomic clock built at the United States National Bureau of Standards

1950: John Hopps invents the first cardiac pacemaker

1950: Paul Zoll develops the first cardiac pacemaker

1950: Hideo Yamachito creates the first electronic computer in Japan

1950: The teleprompter was invented by Hubert Schlafly

1950: Rosalind Franklin used X-ray diffraction to study the structure of DNA

1950: Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine

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

1951: LEO: the first UK business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) is developed by T. Raymond Thompson and John Simmons

1951: The wetsuit was invented by the University of California at Berkeley physicist Hugh Bradner.

1952: USA tests its first hydrogen bomb - the Mike Shot thermonuclear device

1952: Norman Joseph Woodland invented the barcode

1954: Gertrude Elion patents a drug to fight leukemia

1954: IBM and John Backus develop the FORTRAN Computer Programming Language

1954: Bryce K. Brown invented the radar gun to detect the speed of objects

1954: Dee Horton and Lew Hewitt invented the automatic sliding door

1954: Dr. Joseph E. Murray performed the first kidney transplant

1955: The first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus SSN 571 was developed

1955: Bell Labs introduced its first transistor computer.

1956: George Devol and Joseph F. Engelberger were the first to invent an industrial robot.

1957: USSR launch Sputnik I and Sputnik 2, the world's first artificial satellites

1957: The Cold War Space Race begins (1957 - 1975)

1957: USA tests its first intercontinental ballistic missile

1958: Dr. Roger Bacon invented the first high-performance carbon fibers

1958: ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) is formed

1958: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is formed

1958: The Silicon chip, the first integrated circuit, is produced in the US by the Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce

1959: Philo T. Farnsworth invented the fusor apparatus to create nuclear fusion.

1959: Paul Baran theorized on the "survivability of communication systems under nuclear attack"

1960: USA Corona Spy Satellite - successful recovery of photographs from space

1960: The Common Business-Oriented Language (COBOL) programming language is invented.

1960: American physicist Theodore H. Maiman created the first laser.

1960: Dr. Gregory Pincus invented the combined oral contraceptive pill (the Pill"

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.

1961: Alan Shepherd became the first American, to travel into space on Freedom 7

1962: Nick Holonyak Jr. invented the first practical visible-spectrum LED

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

1963: ASCII: The American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is developed to standardize data exchange amongst computers

1963: The first computer mouse is invented by Douglas Engelbart

1963: The first computer mouse is invented by Douglas Engelbart

1962: The first computer game 'Spacewar Computer Game' was invented by Steve Russell at MIT

1962: USSR launches Zenit Spy Satellite, takes photographs above the USA

1964: John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz develop Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Language (BASIC)

1964: IBM introduces the first word processor

1964: The First vaccine is developed for measles.

1965: Paul C. Fisher invented the space pen which was tested at NASA, and was used during the Apollo 7 mission in 1968.

1965: Andries van Dam and Ted Nelson coin the term "hypertext"

1967: The first human heart transplant is conducted by Dr. Christiaan Barnard

1968: USA develops MIRV systems that put several warheads on a single launcher to strike widely dispersed targets

1968: USA launched the Apollo 8 Manned Moon Orbit

1969: USA places First Man on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in Apollo 11 lunar module

1969: George Sweigert received a patent for the cordless telephone

1969: Seymour Cray developed the CDC 7600, the first supercomputer

1969: Gary Starkweather invented the laser printer working with Xerox

1969: Joe Sutter of The Boeing Company designed the world's first wide-body aircraft, the Boeing 747

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

1970: The first vaccine is developed for rubella

1970: Intel introduced the world's first available dynamic RAM (random-access memory) chip and the Intel 4004, the first microprocessor.

1971: Ray Tomlinson invented E-mail

1971: James Fergason invented Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)

1971: The Floppy Disk, nicknamed the "Floppy" due to its flexibility, was invented by David Noble with IBM

1973: Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs create the Ethernet, a local-area network (LAN) protocol

1973: Martin Cooper invented the first handheld cellular mobile phone (cell phone).

1973: The minicomputer Xerox Alto became a landmark in the development of personal computers.

1973: Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn develop gateway routing computers (Gateways) to negotiate between the various national networks

1973: The first voicemail system was invented by Stephen J. Boies.

1974: The First vaccine is developed for chicken pox

1974: IBM developed SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language ) known as SQL

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

1975: USA / USSR First multi-national manned missions ended the Cold War Space Race

1975: Engineer Steven Sasson working at Eastman Kodak invented the first digital camera using a CCD image sensor

1975: CAT-Scans are invented by Robert S. Ledley

1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen found the Microsoft Corporation to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800

1975: Altair produces the first portable computer

1976: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computers.

1977: Ward Christensen writes the "MODEM" program allowing two microcomputers to exchange files with each other over a telephone line

1978: The First vaccine developed for meningitis

1978: The First test-tube baby was born

1981: The First vaccine is developed for hepatitis B

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

1983: HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is identified

1983: The Domain Name System (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partridge

1983: Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) - Star Wars

1985: The artificial kidney dialysis machine is invented by Willem J. Kolff

1990: Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the modern Internet and the World Wide Web

1991: The World Wide Web is launched on August 6, 1991