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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.
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]
Time's Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World (1st ed.). San Diego: Harcourt Trade Publishers. ISBN 978-01560-0-649-1. Bergreen, Laurence (2003). Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. New York: Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06 ...
The 24-year-old from Brooklyn was the first to use a new technology called digitalization to capture images. ... named one of the top inventions of 2017 by Time magazine. ... every day. That's ...
The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792). From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents [7] relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below.
4. Post-it Notes. Who: Spencer Silver, American chemist When: 1980 How it was created: While working on discovering a strong adhesive, Silver created low-tack glue that stuck to objects but could ...
April 15 – Grete Hermann (b. 1901), German mathematician and philosopher; May 13 – Stanislaw Ulam (b. 1909), Polish American mathematician. May 24 – Sir Stanley Hooker (b. 1907), English aeronautical engineer. August 6 – Abraham Lilienfeld (b. 1920), American epidemiologist. August 11 – George Streisinger (b.
The blue chips haven’t closed in the red for nine consecutive days since February 1978, according to FactSet data. But the recent market slump has been mild, with the Dow losing just 3% over the ...