It seems like the all the great ones where a long time ago. Info please!!!
2007-06-21 11:51:41 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
The world-wide-web was invented in the late 80's (and not by Al Gord).
High power LEDs
Decoding whole gemones of various living things.
The orbiting great astromonical observatories (Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, etc.)
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2007-06-21 11:55:25 · answer #1 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look around you, new technology is everywhere! First off, you are using one of the most influential inventions in history the Internet. Where is your cell phone? Great invention. Now they have cameras and music players programmed into them too! Do you have a digital camera? An excellent invention made in the past 20 years. Look at all the game consoles they have out right now and notice how stunning the graphics are. HD television is also great.
The simple things you see around you are some of the greatest inventions.
2007-06-21 12:03:10 · answer #2 · answered by L0VE . 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
World Wide Web 1989 Tim Berners-Lee UK
vision correction, laser 1987 Stephen Trokel US
virtual reality 1989 Jaron Lanier US
Viagra 1997 Pfizer Inc. US
synthetic skin 1981 Ioannis V. Yannas, John F. Burke US
camcorder 1982 Sony Corp. Japan
compact disc (CD) 1980 Philips Electronics, Sony Corp. The Netherlands, Japan
digital videodisc (DVD) 1995 consortium of international electronics companies Japan, US, The Netherlands
DNA fingerprinting 1984 Alec Jeffreys UK
2007-06-21 12:00:19 · answer #3 · answered by DanE 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1981: Scanning tunneling microscope: Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer
1982: Insulated gate bipolar transistor: Hans Becke and Carl Wheatley RCA
1982: ACE inhibitor: John R. Vane
1983: Camcorder: Sony
1983: Internet: first TCP/IP network: Robert E. Kahn, Vint Cerf and others
1984: Lithotripsy: Claude Dornier
1985: Polymerase chain reaction: Kary Mullis
1985: DNA fingerprinting: Alec Jeffreys
1987: Statin: Carl Hoffman
1987: Digital Light Processing: Dr. Larry Hornbeck, Texas Instruments
1990: World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee
1993: Global Positioning System: United States Department of Defense (GPS)
1993: Blue LED: Shuji Nakamura
1996: Web-based email: Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith
1997: Non-mechanical Digital Audio Player: SaeHan Information Systems
2001: Digital satellite radio
2001: Self-contained artificial heart
2002: Scramjet: University of Queensland
2005: Embedded video hosting service: Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley
2006: Motion sensing game controller: Nintendo Wii
And soooo much more inbetween.
2007-06-21 15:03:58 · answer #4 · answered by Pepgrrl 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋