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By 1996 64 percent of K–12 schools in the United States had Internet access and 63 percent of American 12th graders reported using a computer for school work. [6] The first hybrid vehicles are produced in 1997. High-end cars of the 1990s were installed with automatic doors, windows controlled with electric levers, GPS navigation, and CD drives.
Nonetheless, science and technology in England continued to develop rapidly in absolute terms. Furthermore, according to a Japanese research firm, over 40% of the world's inventions and discoveries were made in the UK, followed by France with 24% of the world's inventions and discoveries made in France and followed by the US with 20%. [1]
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
In 1641, the first patent in North America was issued to Samuel Winslow by the General Court of Massachusetts for a new method of making salt. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On April 10, 1790, President George Washington signed the Patent Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 109) into law which proclaimed that patents were to be authorized for "any useful art, manufacture ...
February 11 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1922) February 21 – Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist (b. 1888) March 4 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch 'father of analytical chemistry' (b. 1894) April 1 – Solly Zuckerman, British government scientific advisor (b. 1904)
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.
Sports originating in England (1 C, 39 P) T. ... Pages in category "English inventions" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 223 total.
A 1983 cover article in Time, "The New Economy", described the transition from heavy industry to a new technology based economy. [5] By 1997, Newsweek was referring to the "new economy" in many of its articles. [6] After a nearly 25-year period of unprecedented growth, the United States experienced a much discussed economic slowdown beginning ...