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From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
2017: Google publishes a research paper "Attention Is All You Need" leading to the development into a new deep learning architecture known as the transformer. [538] 2018: Single-cell sequencing [539] 2019: IBM launches IBM Q System One, its first integrated quantum computing system for commercial use.
Pages in category "20th-century inventions" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
2000 Fill and seal a time capsule with 20th-century inventions; 1999 Set a golf tee and tee up a golf ball; 1998 Shut off an alarm clock; 1997 Insert and then play a CD; 1996 Put coins in a bank; 1995 Turn on a radio; 1994 Make a cup of coffee; 1993 Screw a light bulb into a socket; 1992 Unlock a lock; 1991 Toast a slice of bread; 1990 Put the ...
Electrification spread rapidly in the 20th century. At the beginning of the century electric power was for the most part only available to wealthy people in a few major cities. By 2019, an estimated 87 percent of the world's population had access to electricity. [98] Birth control also became widespread during the 20th century.
3rd century BC: Archimedes uses the method of exhaustion to construct a strict inequality bounding the value of π within an interval of 0.002. 3rd century BC: Archimedes develops the field of statics, introducing notions such as the center of gravity, mechanical equilibrium, the study of levers, and hydrostatics.
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
This is a list of Ig Nobel Prize winners from 1991 to the present day. [1]A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded each year in mid-September, around the time the recipients of the genuine Nobel Prizes are announced, for ten achievements that "first make people laugh, and then make them think".