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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.
The modern-day provisions of the law applied to inventions are laid out in Title 35 of the United States Code (Ch. 950, sec. 1, 66 Stat. 792). From 1836 to 2011, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted a total of 7,861,317 patents [ 7 ] relating to several well-known inventions appearing throughout the timeline below.
2000 BC: Water clock by at least the old Babylonian period (c. 2000 – c. 1600 BC), [192] but possibly earlier from Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus Valley. [193] 2000 BC: Chariot in Russia and Kazakhstan [194] 2000 BC: Fountain in Lagash, Sumer. 2000 BC: Scissors, in Mesopotamia. [195] 1850 BC: Proto-alphabet (Proto-Sinaitic script) in Egypt. [196]
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
The concept of flying cars has been a longstanding vision of the future … and the first flying cars were invented in the 1950s. Perhaps the most famous flying car prototype was the Aerocar.
1950s: Solid electrolyte tantalum capacitor was invented by Bell Laboratories. 1950: French physicist Alfred Kastler invented the MASER. 1951: First nuclear power plant in the US 1952: Japanese engineer Jun-ichi Nishizawa invented the avalanche photodiode [20] 1953: First fully transistorized computer in the U.S. 1958
Michael Bell (born 1938), together with Melanie Chartoff (born 1950), U.S. – a gray water recycling device for reuse of shower and sink water in the home; Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), UK, Canada, and U.S. – telephone; Nikolay Benardos (1842–1905), Russian Empire – arc welding (specifically carbon arc welding, the first arc ...
13 1950–1999. 14 21st century. 15 References. ... To avoid overlap with timeline of historic inventions, ... 2000: The Tau neutrino is ...