1940 - April - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa



historyorb.com -

1944 - Sunscreen is invented (Benjamin Green, United States)

1945 - The atomic bomb is invented (J. Robert Oppenheimer, et al., United States)

1948 - Velcro is invented (George de Mestral, Switzerland)

1968 - The ATM is invented (Don Wetzel, United States)

1981 - Personal Computer introduced

1982 - The camcorder is invented (Sony Corp., Japan)

"...In 1982, two events happened that eventually led to the home camcorder boom: JVC introduced the VHS-C format, and Sony released the first professional camcorder named Betacam. VHS-C was... Read MORE...

newworldencyclopedia.org -

1983 - The laptop computer is invented (Radio Shack Corp., United States)

1989 - The World Wide Web is invented at CERN (Tim Berners-Lee, UK)