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The 1970s in science and technology reached its height with the ambitious Voyager Program, which sent the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 uncrewed expeditions to several of the outer planets in the Solar System. The program also included a Voyager Golden Record with the spaceships in hopes of presenting aspects of life on Earth to intelligent alien ...
The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions and their inventors, ... 1970s: Public ...
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 ...
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.
1970–73 – Standard Model of elementary particles invented; 1971 – Helium 3 superfluidity; 1971–75 – Michael Fisher, Kenneth G. Wilson, and Leo Kadanoff: Renormalization group; 1972 – Black Hole Entropy; 1974 – Black hole radiation (Hawking radiation) predicted; 1974 – Charmed quark discovered; 1975 – Tau lepton found
1970: James H. Ellis proposed the possibility of "non-secret encryption", more commonly termed public-key cryptography, a concept that would be implemented by his GCHQ colleague Clifford Cocks in 1973, in what would become known as the RSA algorithm, with key exchange added by a third colleague Malcolm J. Williamson, in 1975.
The 1970s and ’80s were filled with innovations such as VCRs, cordless phones, and personal computers that changed the way we live. It was also a time of tech flops and marketing missteps even ...
Behind many of the world's most important inventions were even more fantastic flops ... 5 flops from the world's most famous inventors. Clinton Nguyen. Updated September 9, 2016 at 5:18 PM.