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The 1970s witnessed an explosion in the understanding of solid-state physics, driven by the development of the integrated circuit and the laser. The evolution of the computer produced an interesting duality in the physical sciences at this period — analogue recording technology had reached its peak and was incredibly sophisticated.
October 1 – Godfrey Hounsfield's invention, X-ray computed tomography, is first used on a patient with a cerebral cyst at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London. [9] Boston Women's Health Book Collective publishes Our Bodies, Ourselves in the U.S. E. G. L. Bywaters characterises adult-onset Still's disease, a rare form of inflammatory ...
August 31 – Solar eclipse of August 31, 1970: An annular solar eclipse is visible in Oceania, and is the 14th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 144. September 20 – Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples, landing back on Earth September 24.
The 24-year-old from Brooklyn was the first to use a new technology called digitalization to capture images. Four decades later, we carry his invention in our pockets on our phones. Courtesy of ...
June 26 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, the first use of barcode technology in American retailing. [10] Stephen Salter invents the "Salter Duck", a wave energy converter.
By 1960, magnetic core was the dominant memory technology, although there were still some new machines using drums and delay lines during the 1960s. Magnetic thin film and rod memory were used on some second-generation machines, but advances in core technology meant they remained niche players until semiconductor memory displaced both core and ...
February – S. J. Singer and Garth L. Nicolson describe the fluid mosaic model of the functional cell membrane. [1]September – Geoffrey Burnstock proposes the existence of a non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic neurotransmitter, which he identifies as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), originating the term 'purinergic signalling'.
The Third Industrial Revolution: the changes brought about by computing and communication technology, starting from around 1950 with the creation of the first general-purpose electronic computers. The Information Revolution: the economic, social and technological changes resulting from the Digital Revolution (after 1960) [citation needed].