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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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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
February 3 – Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
The first-generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, and multiple new hardware iterations with new iOS releases have been released since. 2007 Amazon Kindle. In 2007, Amazon released the original Amazon Kindle e-book reader. While not the first of its kind, the Kindle led the charge to popularizing e-books and e-readers. 2008 Bionic ...
The 1995, 1996, Fall and Spring 1997, and Spring 1997 volumes of the How It Works science supplement. The Illustrated Science and Invention Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia of books originally published in parts in the United Kingdom under the title How It Works, by Marshall Cavendish Limited, [1] and republished in the United States in 1974 by H.S. Stuttman Publishers in Westport, Connecticut ...