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In 1958 a version of the integrated circuit was invented in Dallas by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments; this event punctuated the Dallas area's development as a center for high-technology manufacturing (though the technology Mr. Kilby developed was soon usurped by a competing technology simultaneously developed in the "Silicon Valley" in California by engineers who would go on to form Intel ...
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. [507] 1974: The Rubik's cube is invented by Ernő Rubik which went on to be the best selling puzzle ever. [508]
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This is a list of the individual Texas year pages. In 1845, the United States annexed the Republic of Texas as the 28th U.S. state , establishing the State of Texas. [ 1 ]
The Volkswagen Golf GTI of 1974 made the concept of a performance hatchback part of automotive mainstream thinking, though it had many precedents. The United States lagged badly in the development of compact and fuel-efficient vehicles, a side effect of industrial inexperience on the part of the manufacturers in Detroit.
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.
Julian Castro, politician, mayor of San Antonio, Texas (2009–2014), and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2014–2017) September 17 Austin St. John, actor and martial artist; DJ Babu, DJ, producer, and member of Dilated Peoples; Rasheed Wallace, basketball player; September 18 Fred Beasley, football player; Xzibit, rapper ...