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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.
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.
1974: The Rubik's cube is invented by Ernő Rubik which went on to be the best selling puzzle ever. [ 509 ] 1977: Dr Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger invented a new DNA sequencing method for which they won the Nobel Prize .
1974: C (programming language) Kernighan, Ritchie: 1974: Programmable pocket calculator: Hewlett-Packard: 1975: BASIC for personal computers: Allen: 1975: First personal computer (Altair 8800) Roberts 1975: Digital camera: Steven Sasson of Eastman Kodak: 1975: Integrated optical circuits: Reinhart and Logan 1975: Omni-font optical character ...
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
In the retail world as the year turned from 1973 to 1974, Terri Tyler Street of Shops in Potter Village Shopping Center was advertising “After Five Dresses” starting at $13.30, blazers for as ...
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.
1974: Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. discover indirect evidence for gravitational wave radiation in the Hulse–Taylor binary 1977: Frederick Sanger sequences the first DNA genome of an organism using Sanger sequencing