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Old 11-22-2021, 3:43pm   #1
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1951

Super glue invented.

Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.

Charles Ginsburg invented the first videotape recorder (VTR).
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-llinois Bell Company introduces first ever Cellular Mobile Phone System.
-Space Invaders Launches Craze for Computer Video Games.
-The first computer bulletin board system BBS is created.
-GPS
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The airbag, which is essential today for car safety purposes, was invented. Polio was to be combated with the help of vaccination, which was used for the first time. And Roll-on deodorants are an invention that can be traced back to that year too.
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In 1971, Intel released the first programmable microprocessor

1971: Email

1971: Anti-Lock Brakes

1971: Universal Product Code (UPC)

1971: Weed Whacker

1971: Waffle Sole Running Shoe
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Old 11-22-2021, 4:39pm   #8
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• Chatter Telephone
• Coffee-Mate
• Gibson B series
• Grecian Formula
• Head & Shoulders
• IBM Selectric typewriter
• Ken (doll)
• Life (cereal)
• Magic Tape
• Mrs. Butterworth's
• PAM (cooking oil)
• Pampers
• Sax (cigarette)
• Sego (diet drink)
• Slip 'N Slide
• Sprite (drink)
• Suzy Q
• Tiparillo
• Total (cereal)
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Electricity.
Figures.
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Side panel styling on the Corvette
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that was a long, long time ago.....
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Figures.

I was an early adopter. I got better with it as time passed. Those early days were a challenge. Try to find and engine stand in the age of horse and buggies.
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Cassette tapes
Lava lamps (orig. Astro Lamp)
Video discs
Soda can tab
Computer disc storage
Computer mouse
Pushbutton telephone
Home video recorder
Easy-Bake Oven
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1963:

1. The Lava Lamp
2. The smiley face
3. Push-button telephone
4. Computer mouse
5. Instant coffee
7. Hypertext
8. The Hang-glider
9. Cassette tapes
10. Doctor Who and the Daleks
11. Weather satellite
12. Mini-skirt
13. Valium
14. ME
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1944 without research.....I would guess the atomic bomb......then the end of the War.......
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The solid integrated circuit, or, as it came to be called, the microchip.
Barbie dolls
Bic ball point pen

1959
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In 1971, Intel released the first programmable microprocessor

1971: Email

1971: Anti-Lock Brakes

1971: Universal Product Code (UPC)

1971: Weed Whacker

1971: Waffle Sole Running Shoe


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The solid integrated circuit, or, as it came to be called, the microchip.
Barbie dolls
Bic ball point pen

1959





Were you the first kid on the block to get one?
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The wheel.
The Ford Mustang.
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