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Biometric devices have been in use for thousands of years. Non-automated biometric devices have in use since 500 BC, [2] when ancient Babylonians would sign their business transactions by pressing their fingertips into clay tablets. Automation in biometric devices was first seen in the 1960s. [3]
A vibrating belt machine is a device that was promoted to passively reduce body fat through the use of an oscillating or vibrating belt around the exercise subject's waist, without active exercise by the user. The device was widely promoted in the 1950s and 1960s as a way to break up abdominal fat through vibration.
The 1970s were a fabulous time for fashion. From crop top shirts to the famous wrap dress by Diane von Fürstenberg, some of these trends are still in today.
One notable fashion designer to emerge into the spotlight during this time was Diane von Fürstenberg, who popularized, among other things, the jersey "wrap dress". [4] [5] von Fürstenberg's wrap dress design, essentially a robe, was among the most popular fashion styles of the 1970s, would also be credited as a symbol of women's liberation.
Vintage Fashion. The 70s fashion scene was marked by iconic trends of legendary designers strutted on the runways from some of the world’s first supermodels. Original pieces from this era ...
The 1960s were an age of fashion innovation for women. The early 1960s gave birth to drainpipe jeans and capri pants, a style popularized by Audrey Hepburn. [6] Casual dress became more unisex and often consisted of plaid button down shirts worn with slim blue jeans, comfortable slacks, or skirts.
Bates was born in Ponteland, Northumberland, on 11 January 1935. [2] From 1951 to 1952, he worked as a trainee journalist and office assistant in London. Group of 1960s minidresses designed by John Bates for Jean Varon, including a 1966 fluorescent green micro-mini worn by Marit Allen. [3]
1968 – Control device for the knives of a pleating machine patented in Germany. [31] 1979 – Murata manufacturing demonstrates air splicing of yarn. [32] c. 1981 – Air jet spinning enters the US market. [33] 1983 – Bonas Machine Company Ltd. presents the first computer-controlled, electronic, Jacquard loom. [34]