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February 4 – S. N. Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894) April 12 – Cornelis Simon Meijer, Dutch mathematician (b. 1904) May 4 – Ludwig Koch, German-born British animal sound recordist (b. 1881) May 18 – Harry Ricardo, English mechanical engineer (b. 1885) May 22 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (b. 1903), German-American mathematician and aerospace ...
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]
Computer-related introductions in 1984 (4 C, 92 P) Cameras introduced in 1984 (1 P) M. Mobile phones introduced in 1984 (1 P) 1984 musical instruments (1 P) T.
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
First known case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, in England. [1]The enzyme telomerase is discovered by Carol W. Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn in the ciliate Tetrahymena.
The invention of the spinner is credited to James J.D. Gragg of Tulsa, Oklahoma who filed a patent on October 28, 1992 and was issued United States Patent #5,290,094 on March 4, 1994. [8] 1994 CMOS image sensor. Early prototype of a CMOS image sensor
By the end of the decade, floating point units (FPUs) were being added, first appearing on 1989s Intel 486 and followed the next year by the Motorola 68040. Another change that began during the 1980s involved overall design philosophy with the emergence of the reduced instruction set computer , or RISC.
1984 – W and Z bosons directly observed; 1984 – First laboratory implementation of quantum cryptography; 1987 – High-temperature superconductivity discovered in 1986, awarded Nobel prize in 1987 (J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alexander Müller) 1989–98 – Quantum annealing; 1993 – Quantum teleportation of unknown states proposed