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February 8 – After 84 days in space, the last crew of the temporary American space station Skylab return to Earth.; February 13–15 – Sagittarius A*, thought to be the location of a supermassive black hole, is identified by Bruce Balick and Robert Brown using the baseline interferometer of the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
That code, the UPC, was invented by IBM engineer George Laurer in 1974. Before barcodes caught on, cashiers punched in all prices by hand. ... was named one of the top inventions of 2017 by Time ...
1984 – W and Z bosons directly observed; 1984 – First laboratory implementation of quantum cryptography; 1987 – High-temperature superconductivity discovered in 1986, awarded Nobel prize in 1987 (J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alexander Müller) 1989–98 – Quantum annealing; 1993 – Quantum teleportation of unknown states proposed
1974: Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. discover indirect evidence for gravitational wave radiation in the Hulse–Taylor binary 1977: Frederick Sanger sequences the first DNA genome of an organism using Sanger sequencing
An AI-powered toilet seat has been named by Time Magazine as one of the top 200 inventions of 2024. It optically scans a user’s stool and urine, to detect any concerning changes that might ...
First known case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, in England. [1]The enzyme telomerase is discovered by Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn in the ciliate Tetrahymena.
1974: The lithium-ion battery is invented by M. Stanley Whittingham, and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by John B. Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino. It has impacted modern consumer electronics and electric vehicles. [508] 1974: The Rubik's cube is invented by Ernő Rubik which went on to be the best selling puzzle ever. [509]
The same optoelectronic method also allows for the first time the post-processing of recorded music to sound recordings of it. The director Carl Froelich (1875–1953) turns "The Night Belongs to Us", the first German sound film. 20th Century Fox presents in New York on an 8 m × 4 m big screen the first widescreen movie.