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By 1960, magnetic core was the dominant memory technology, although there were still some new machines using drums and delay lines during the 1960s. Magnetic thin film and rod memory were used on some second-generation machines, but advances in core technology meant they remained niche players until semiconductor memory displaced both core and ...
Pages in category "1960s in technology" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. T. Timeline of computing 1950–1979
February 13 Max Perutz publishes the structure of hemoglobin. [4]John Kendrew publishes the structure of myoglobin. [5]March 5 – British marine biologist Sir Alister Hardy announces his aquatic ape hypothesis, theorising that swimming and diving for food exerted a strong evolutionary effect partly responsible for the divergence in the common descent of humans and other great apes.
March 15 – Arthur Compton (born 1892), American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. March 19 – Samuel Cate Prescott (born 1872), American food scientist and microbiologist. March 24 – Auguste Piccard (born 1884), Swiss physicist and explorer. May 13 – Henry Trendley Dean (born 1893), American dental researcher.
As a result, book-sized computers of today can outperform room-sized computers of the 1960s, and there has been a revolution in the way people live – in how they work, study, conduct business, and engage in research. World War II had a profound impact on the development of science and technology in the United States.
The swinging 1960s could help to unpack a key puzzle of our current era: America's funky economic mood. Why the 1960s can help us understand our confusing economic mood [Video] Skip to main content
April – First book printed completely using electronic composition, the United States edition of Andrew Garve's thriller The Long Short Cut. [2] [3] July 18 – The semiconductor chip company Intel is founded by Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noyce in Mountain View, California.
How and Why Wonder Books were a series of American illustrated books published in the 1960s and 1970s that were designed to teach science and history to children and young teenagers. The series began in 1960 and was edited under the supervision of Paul E. Blackwood of the Office of Education at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.