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The results of a tabulation are electrically coupled with a sorter while displayed on clock-like dials. The concept of automated data processing had been born. In 1890, Herman Hollerith invented the mechanical tabulating machine, a design used during the 1890 Census which stored and processed demographic and statistical information on punched ...
The following articles cover the timeline of United States inventions: Timeline of United States inventions (before 1890), before the turn of the century; Timeline of United States inventions (1890–1945), before World War II; Timeline of United States inventions (1946–1991), during the Cold War
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) leads the music format with 45 RPM records, later to conquer the market for cheap players. The first publication in Germany in this format appears 1953rd; The British physicist Dennis Gabor (1900–1979) invents holography. This method of recording and reproducing image with coherent light allows three ...
December 9 – Joseph Needham (died 1995), English biochemist and writer on the history of science and technology in China. December 12 – Mária Telkes (died 1995 ), Hungarian-American scientist and inventor.
2020: NASA and SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) discover about 12 US fl oz (350 ml) of surface water in one of the Moon's largest visible craters. [ 140 ] 2022: The standard reference gene, GRCh38.p14, of the human genome , is fully sequenced and contains 3.1 billion base pairs.
2020: The first MRNA vaccine to be approved by public health medicines regulators is co-developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for COVID-19. [557] 2020: OpenAI demonstrated an Artificial Intelligence model called GPT-3. The program was created to generate human-like responses when given prompts. [558] 2022: Pfizer develops the world's first pill for ...
Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, industrial, university, and military research continued to realize gains in the power, maneuverability, and reliability of airplanes: Charles Lindbergh completed a solo non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927, Wiley Post flew around the world in nine days in 1931, and Howard Hughes shattered flight airspeed records ...
1933 – Ernst Ruska: Invention of the electron microscope; 1935 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: Chandrasekhar limit for black hole collapse; 1937 - Majorana particle, hypothesized as a fermion that is its own antiparticle. 1937 – Muon discovered by Carl David Anderson and Seth Neddermeyer; 1938 – Pyotr Kapitsa: Superfluidity discovered