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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.
2005: YouTube, the first popular video-streaming site, was founded; 2007: Netflix debuted the first popular video-on-demand service; 2007: Apple Inc. released the iPhone; 2007: The Bank of Scotland develops the world's first banking app; 2007: SoundCloud, the first on-demand service to focus on music is debuted
Luggage with wheels dates back to the early 1970s, but it was a top-heavy version with a pull-strap, which was clumsy when compared to today's modern Rollaboard-style luggage. Invented by ...
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.
April 19 – Aryabhata, India's first satellite, is launched using Soviet boosters. July 17 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.
CP/M-80 was the first popular microcomputer operating system to be used by many different hardware vendors, and many software packages were written for it, such as WordStar and dBase II. Many hobbyists during the mid-1970s designed their own systems, with various degrees of success, and sometimes banded together to ease the job.
None of the top 10 1970s baby girl names overlapped with the top 10 list of names 50 years prior. In fact, there are only two baby girl names that made the top 25 baby girl names in both the 1920s ...
March 7 – Comet Kohoutek is discovered April 6 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft; May 14 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. Solar eclipse of June 30, 1973 – Very long total solar eclipse visible in NE South America, the Atlantic, and central Africa.