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:explode: TIMELINE :explode: - Coggle Diagram
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The first satellite in the modern Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) is launched.
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The journal Science publishes a paper by geoscientist Wallace Broecker, “Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” the first time that the phrase is used in a scientific paper.
Global warming
The Boeing 707-120 debuts as the world's first successful commercial jet airliner, ushering in the era of accessible mass air travel.
Jet airliner
Enovid, a drug the FDA approves for menstrual disorders, comes with a warning: The mixture of synthetic progesterone and estrogen also prevents ovulation.
Birth Control Pill
In 1945 Raytheon's Percy Spencer stands in front of a magnetron and feels a candy bar start to melt in his pocket: He is intrigued. When he places popcorn kernels in front of the magnetron, the kernels explode all over the lab.
Microwave
The first general-purpose computer, the nearly 30-ton ENIAC (1947), contains 18,000 vacuum tubes, 70,000 resistors and 10,000 capacitors. In 1959, the integrated circuit puts those innards on one tiny chip.
computer invented
Historical timeline of the development of modern weapons starting at 1364 with the first recorded use of a firearm
Gun
The first records of the term die come from around 1150. It ultimately comes from the Old Norse verb deyja.
word "die"