| 20th Centuries Most Significant People and Events | |||||||||||
| GEF | |||||||||||
| 19-Mar-95 | Revised | 30 Aug. | |||||||||
| Contribution | Year | First Name | Last Name | Category | Initial or middle | Life Dates | Comment | Compiler | |||
| Universal impact on lives or thoughts or art, don't need to be univerally known. | |||||||||||
| Elevators | 1852 | Elisha | Otis | ||||||||
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging | 1871 | Raymond | Damadian | Internal Views of the Body | american | ||||||
| Aspirin | 1899 | ||||||||||
| Movement | 1900 | Loie | Fuller | Arts/Dance | |||||||
| Inside the Mind (Interp. dreams) | 1900 | Sigmund | Freud | Human Psychology | |||||||
| Quantum Theroy | 1900 | Max | Plank | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| Transition Poetry | 1900 | William | Yeats | Poetry | Butler | 1865-1939 | |||||
| Elevated Mathematics of approximation | 1900 | Taylor, Hermite, Hamiltonian, | Computer Mathematics | Technical Uncertainty | ck date? | ||||||
| 20 open mathematical questions | 1900 | David | Hilbert | Technical Uncertainty | 1862-1943 | Most still open | JNW | ||||
| Safety Razor | 1901 | Life Utilities | |||||||||
| Wireless Communication | 1901 | Marconi | Braun | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Gyroscope (MIT) | 1901 | Charles | Draper | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| X-rays | 1901 | Wilhelm | Roentgen | Understanding our Body | G. | 1845-1923 | |||||
| Black and White Photography | 1902 | Alfred | Stieglitz | Capture of Life Passed/Present | 1864-1946 | ||||||
| Chromosomes & Inheritance | 1902 | Mendel/Fleming/De Bries | Sutton | Understanding our Body | |||||||
| Invention of the electric utility | 1903 | Thomas | Edison | Life Utilities | General Electrics original logo of the script GE was done by Edison. | ||||||
| Powered Flight | 1903 | Wilbur/Orville | Wright | Mobility & Communication | 1871-1948 | ||||||
| Triode | 1904 | Mobility & Communication | |||||||||
| Invention of Quanta | 1905 | Albert | Einstein | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | 1905-1953 | Photo electric effect, light occurs in discrete quanta. | |||||
| Special Relativity | 1905 | Albert | Einstein | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | 1905-1953 | Paper w/ no references, the same laws of nature operate independent of reference frame, give up ablsolutes of space and time | |||||
| IQ test | 1905 | Binet | Simon | Understanding our Body | |||||||
| Vitamins as an entity | 1906 | Eijkmann | Hopkins | Health | see 1912 | ||||||
| Wasserman Test for Syphilis | 1906 | Health | |||||||||
| RF Amplifier Vacuum Tube, Audion | 1906 | Lee | de Forest | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Modern Fine Art | 1907 | Pablo | Picasso | Art | 1889-1973 | ||||||
| Radioactive Dating | 1907 | BB | Boltwood | Earth History | 1870-1927 | ||||||
| Air Conditioning | 1907 | Willis | Carrier | Life Utilities | 1876-1950 | ||||||
| Jazz Guitar | 1908 | Carlos | Santana | Arts/Music | 1893- | ||||||
| Sulfa Drugs | 1908 | Paul | Gerlmo | Health | |||||||
| Automobile Assembly Line | 1908 | Henry | Ford | Mobility & Communication | 1863-1947 | ||||||
| American Homes & Architect | 1909 | Frank | Wright | Life Utilities | Lloyd | ||||||
| Bakelite (first fully synthetic) | 1910 | Leo | Baekeland | Life Utilities | 1863-1944 | ||||||
| Electro-Magnetic waves | 1910 | Lorentz | Zeeman | Mobility & Communication | ck date? | JNW | |||||
| Interesting Problems | 1910 | Bertrand | Russell | Philosophy | 1872-1970 | JNW | |||||
| Inside the Mind | 1911 | Adler | Human Psychology | 1856-1937 | |||||||
| Atomic Nucleus | 1911 | Rutherford | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | ||||||||
| Plate Tectonics from Wegener 1912 wk | 1912 | Ewing | Hazen | Earth History | |||||||
| Continental Drift Plate Tectonics | 1912 | Alfred | Wegener | Earth History | see 1953 | Kieth Howard USGS | |||||
| Artificial Vitamins | 1912 | Eijkmann | Hopkins | Health | 1906 | ||||||
| End of Elite and Engineering vulnerability | 1912 | SS | Titanic | Limits of Science and Engineering | |||||||
| Oil Cracking for Gasoline | 1912 | William | Burton | Mobility & Communication | 1865-1954 | ||||||
| Income Tax | 1913 | 16th amendment | Government | ||||||||
| Refridgerator | 1913 | Life Utilities | |||||||||
| Subatomic Behavior | 1913 | Niels | Bohr | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| Behavioral Psychology | 1914 | John | Watson | Human Psychology | |||||||
| Star Lives - The Main Sequence | 1914 | Henry | Russell | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | 1877-1957 | ||||||
| Proton | 1914 | Rutherford | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | ||||||||
| WWI | 1914 | War and Human Conflict | |||||||||
| Government maze, trapped writer | 1915 | Franz | Kafka | Government | 1883-1924 | ||||||
| Magnetic Tape Recording | 1916 | Marvin | Comras | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| 1st Birth Control Advacacy | 1916 | Margaret | Sanger | Social Changes | 1883-1966 | ||||||
| Communist Experiment - Russian Revolt | 1917 | Trotsky | Lenin | Social Changes | |||||||
| Classical Guitar | 1920 | Andres | Segovia | Arts/Music | 1893- | ||||||
| Jazz | 1920 | Arts/Music | |||||||||
| The Modern High-rise | 1920 | Life Utilities | |||||||||
| Laser | 1920 | Gould | 5-People | Mobility & Communication | and 1958 | Arts/Music | |||||
| Words mean nothing | 1920 | Ludwig | Wittgenstein | Philosophy | Influential | JNW | |||||
| Passive Resistance | 1920 | Mohandas | Gandhi | Social Changes | K. | 1869-1948 | |||||
| Arts/Music and Medicine for the poor | 1920 | Albert | Schweitzer | Social Changes | 1875-1965 | Mobility & Communication | |||||
| Prohibition | 1920 | Social Changes | |||||||||
| Womens vote XIX Amendment | 1920 | Social Changes | |||||||||
| Forward pass quick offense | 1920 | Knute | Rockne | Sports Philosophy and Extensions elsewhere | 1888-1986 | ||||||
| 12 Tone Arts/Music | 1921 | Arnold | Schoenberg | Arts/Music | 1874-1951 | ||||||
| Insulin | 1922 | Banting | Macleod | Health | |||||||
| Sound Movies | 1922 | T.W. | Case | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Modern Poetry Wasteland | 1922 | T.S. | Eliot | Poetry | 1888-1965 | Poetry | |||||
| Killer-Most harmful Marxist | 1922 | Joseph | Stalin | War and Human Conflict | 1879-1955 | ||||||
| Oral Contraceptives | 1923 | Djerassi | Colton | Health | |||||||
| Tetracycline (1st synthetic) | 1923 | LLoyd | Conover | Health | |||||||
| Electro-static Precipitator | 1923 | Fred | Cottrell | Life Utilities | 1877-1948 | Social Changes | |||||
| Waves/Particle | 1923 | Louis | de Broglie | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | V. | 1892- | |||||
| Modernized Turkey and Muslim Women | 1923 | Mustafa Kemal Pasha | Ataturk | Social Changes | ataturk=father of turkey | ||||||
| Buildings | 1924 | Walter | Gropius | Life Utilities | |||||||
| The Loud Speaker | 1924 | Rich | Kellog | Social Changes | Art | ||||||
| American wacky humor | 1925 | James | Thurber | Humor | 1894-1961 | Life Utilities | |||||
| Matrix Mechanics | 1925 | Heisenberg | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | ||||||||
| New Means of Conveying Physical Comedy | 1926 | Buster Keaton | Harold Lloyd | Humor | 1895-1966 | ||||||
| Real Sound Movies The Jazz Singer | 1926 | Warner | Brothers | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Rocket (V2 1944) | 1926 | Goddard | Mobility & Communication | 1882-1945 | |||||||
| TV | 1926 | Mobility & Communication | |||||||||
| Xray CT | 1926 | Bob | Ledley | Understanding our Body | |||||||
| Father of Blues | 1927 | Son | House | Arts/Music | 1902-1988 | ||||||
| Negative Feedback Amplifier | 1927 | Harold | Black | Mobility & Communication | 1898-1983 | ||||||
| Uncertainty Physics | 1927 | Born/Schroedinger | Heizenberg | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| Sports Hero Model | 1927 | Babe | Ruth | Social Changes | 1895-1948 | ||||||
| Classical Arts/Music | 1928 | George | Gershwin | Arts/Music | 1898-1937 | Mobility & Communication | |||||
| Magnetic Tape | 1928 | Fritz | Pfleumer | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Scotch Tape | 1929 | Life Utilities | |||||||||
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1929 | Ernest | Hemingway | Mobility & Communication | 1899-1961 | ||||||
| American Economic Depression starts | 1929 | USA | Social Changes | Social Changes | |||||||
| Child Development Phases | 1929 | Jean | Piaget | Understanding our Body | 1896-1980 | ||||||
| Jazz vocal | 1930 | Ella | Fitzgerald | Arts/Music | 1918- | ||||||
| American Ideal Family Paintings | 1930 | Norman | Rockwell | Capture of Life Passed/Present | 1894-1978 | ||||||
| Freon inert refridgerant (greenhouse too) | 1930 | Thomas | Midgley Jr. | Life Utilities | |||||||
| First Electrical Computer | 1930 | Vannevar | Bush | Mobility & Communication | 1890-1974 | Social Changes | |||||
| cyclotron | 1930 | ernesto | lawrence | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | Mobility & Communication | ||||||
| Stereophonic Sound (dual sources) | 1931 | A.D. | English | Arts/Music | |||||||
| Nylon | 1931 | Wallace | Carothers | Life Utilities | 1896-1937 | ||||||
| Math is Uncertain too - Goedels Proof | 1931 | Goedel | Technical Uncertainty | ||||||||
| Future predictive writing | 1932 | Aldous | Huxley | Capture of Life Passed/Present/Future | 1894-1963 | ||||||
| Heart Pacemaker | 1932 | A.S. | Hyman | Health | American | Mobility & Communication | Social Changes | ||||
| Neutron | 1932 | James | Chadwick | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | 1891-1974 | ||||||
| Repeal Prohibition | 1933 | USA people | Arts/Music | ||||||||
| Synthetic Vitamin C | 1933 | Szent/Gyorgyi/King | Reichistein | Health | |||||||
| e Spin | 1933 | Paul | Dirac | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | 1902- | Nobel w/ Schroedinger | |||||
| Non-Local Realism | 1933 | Puldansky, Rosen | Einstein | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | 1905-1953 | the consequences of an earlier theory of others leads to 'the spooky action at a distance'. This paper is still being studied and understanding being developed. | |||||
| Entitlement-Welfare & Social Security | 1933 | Franklin | Roosevelt | Social Changes | D. | 1882-1945 | |||||
| Cycle of Societies/ Religion for Rebirth | 1934 | Arnold | Toynbee | Capture of Life Passed/Present | 1889-1975 | British | |||||
| Philos. of Science-'Falsifiability' | 1934 | Karl | Popper | Technical Uncertainty | 1902- | JNW | |||||
| Folk Arts/Music | 1935 | Woody | Guthrie | Arts/Music | This land is your land. | ||||||
| Color Film | 1935 | Kodachrome | Kodak | Capture of Life Passed/Present/Future | |||||||
| Polls | 1935 | George | Gallup | Life Utilities | 1901- | ||||||
| Radar | 1935 | Robert | Watson | 1892-1973 | |||||||
| Origins of Rock and Roll/Country Western | 1936 | Robert | Johnson | Arts/Music | 1911-1938 | Jeff Veer | |||||
| Plays of American Severity | 1936 | Eugene | O'Niell | Capture of Life Passed/Present | |||||||
| New Deal Economoics | 1936 | John | Keynes | Social Changes | M. | 1883-1946 | |||||
| Middle America Painting | 1937 | Andrew | Weyth | Art | 1917- | ||||||
| Positive Reinforcement psych | 1938 | BF | Skinner | Human Psychology (Understanding our Mind) | 1904- | ||||||
| Ball Point Pen | 1938 | Brothers | Biro | Life Utilities | |||||||
| Penicillin produced | 1939 | Florey | Chain | Health | 1881-1955 | 1928 Sir Alexander Fleming | Capture of Life Passed/Present | ||||
| Insect Control | 1939 | Mueller/Ziedler | DDT | Life Utilities | |||||||
| Fission Reaction/Nuclear Power | 1939 | Enrico | Fermi | Life Utilities | Fusion 1952 | Physics | |||||
| 1st Control of Insects - DDT | 1939 | Paul | Muller | Life Utilities | 1899-1965 | ||||||
| Helicopters- Vertical Lift Works | 1939 | Igor | Sikorsky | Mobility & Communication | 1889-1972 | United Aircraft | |||||
| Fission | 1939 | Hahn/Matner | Strassman/Bohr | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| WW II Started, lesson of bad war end. | 1939 | Adolf | Hitler | War and Human Conflict | |||||||
| Nationalism | 1939 | Shrink of Imperialism | War and Human Conflict | ||||||||
| 1st Jet Engined Aircraft | 1941 | GE | Whittle | Mobility & Communication | Proto in1930 | ||||||
| African American Sports | 1941 | Jackie | Robinson | Social Changes | |||||||
| Existentialism | 1942 | Albert | Camus | Philosophy of Life | 1913-1960 | ||||||
| JAZZ/Blues | 1943 | Muddy | Watters | Arts/Music | 1915-1983 | McKinley Morganfield | |||||
| Movie Arts/Music | 1943 | Richard/Oscar | Rogers & Hammerstein | Capture of Life Passed/Present | War and Human Conflict | ||||||
| Scuba Acqua Lung | 1943 | Jacques | Cousteau | Life Utilities | 1910- | Self contained underwater breathing apparatus' | |||||
| Philosophy of Existentialism | 1943 | JP, Albert | Sartre, Camus | Philosophy | 1905-1980 | Just Do It, Situational Ethics, Actions not Words | |||||
| Friendship and Hope Defined | 1943 | Antoine | St Exupery | Philosophy of Life | |||||||
| 1st Congresswoman | 1943 | Clare | Boothe-Luce | Social Changes | 1903- | ||||||
| 1944 | Martha | Graham | Arts/Dance | 1894-1991 | |||||||
| Classical Arts/Music Piano Sonata #5 | 1944 | Sergei | Prokofiov | Arts/Music | S. | 1891-1953 | Jeff Newell | ||||
| Teflon Neutral Hi-temp plastic | 1944 | Nuclear bomb studies | Life Utilities | ||||||||
| DNA as genetic material | 1944 | Oswald | Avery | Understanding our Body | 1877-1955 | ||||||
| War Generals General | 1944 | George | Patton | War and Human Conflict | S. | 1885-1945 | Society | ||||
| East of Eden | 1945 | John | Steinbeck | Capture of Life Passed/Present | 1962 Nobel | Literature Moral | |||||
| Enabling Human Fantasy/ Dreams | 1945 | Walt | Disney | Fantasy & Dreams | G. Reynolds | ||||||
| Cyclotron for Physics studies | 1945 | McMullen | Beksler | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| Software- Nanosec. Wire | 1945 | Adm. Grace | Hopper | Tools | |||||||
| Atomic Bomb - Hiroshima, Japan | 1945 | Robert | Oppenheimer | War and Human Conflict | |||||||
| United Nations | 1945 | Woodrow | Wilson | War and Human Conflict | |||||||
| Marshall Plan at Bretton Woods | 1945 | War and Human Conflict | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | ||||||||
| Permissiveness-Child Rearing w/ common sense | 1946 | Benjamin | Spock | Social Changes | 1903- | ||||||
| Computers ENIAC | 1946 | Eckert/Mauchly | Von Neumann | Tools | |||||||
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging | 1946 | Purcell/Felix | Edward/Bloch | Understanding our Body | |||||||
| MRI | 1946 | Bloch & | Purcell | Understanding our Body | |||||||
| Polaroid | 1947 | Herbert | Land | Capture of Life Passed/Present | 1909- | ||||||
| TV | 1947 | Capture of Life Passed/Present | |||||||||
| Carbon Dating | 1947 | Willard | Libby | Earth History | 1908-1980 | ||||||
| Microwave Oven | 1947 | Spencer | Life Utilities | Society | |||||||
| Hologram Laser 3D Images | 1947 | Dennis | Gabon | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| Ballet gains new energy | 1948 | George | Balanchine | Arts/Music | 1904-1983 | ||||||
| LP vinyl record | 1948 | Peter Goldmark | Arts/Music | ||||||||
| Slapstick | 1948 | Three | Stooges | Humor | ck date? | ||||||
| Historical Novel | 1948 | James | Michener | Learning & Teaching | Home Convenience | ||||||
| Velcro (Hook & Loop Fastener) | 1948 | George | de Mestral | Life Utilities | France | ||||||
| The Transistor | 1948 | Brattain, Bardeen | Shockley | Life Utilities | Electrnoics | ||||||
| Universal Declaration of Womens Rights | 1948 | Elanore | Roosevelt | Social Changes | |||||||
| Future Revealing Stories-1984 | 1949 | George | Orwell | Learning & Teaching | 1903-1950 | ||||||
| Information Theory | 1949 | C.E. | Shannon | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | 1916- | w/ W. Weaver | |||||
| Evangelism for Christ | 1949 | Billy | Graham | Religion | 1918- | J. Hutchison | |||||
| Art as Mobile | 1950 | Alexander | Calder | Art | 1898-1976 | ||||||
| Folk Arts/Music | 1950 | Odetta Holmes | Odetta | Arts/Music | 1930- | ||||||
| Child Development | 1950 | Erikson | Human Psychology | 1902-1994 | |||||||
| Computers/programs/ Artificial Intelligence | 1950 | Alan | Turing | Life Utilities | M. | 1912-1954 | |||||
| Cashless Society | 1950 | Credit | Cards | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Color TV | 1950 | Peter | Goldmark | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Tough Minded Democracy | 1951 | Winston | Churchill | War and Human Conflict | Society | ||||||
| Power of Positive Thinking | 1952 | Norman | V. Peale | Human Psychology | |||||||
| Sedatives | 1952 | Robert | Wilkins | Life Utilities | 1906- | ||||||
| Zone Refining of silicon | 1952 | William | Pfann | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| Blackoning of S. Africa | 1952 | Social Changes | |||||||||
| DNA | 1952 | Watson,Wilkins, | Crick | Understanding our Body | 1962? | ||||||
| Future predictive writing | 1953 | Arthur | Clark | Capture of Life Passed/Present/Future | C. | 1917- | British | ||||
| Color TV | 1953 | USA | Goldmark | Mobility & Communication | 1906-1977 | Electronics | |||||
| 4th & 5th Amendment ? | 1953 | Earl | Warren | Social Changes | 1891-1974 | ||||||
| Double Helix DNA chains | 1953 | Watson | Crick | Understanding our Body | |||||||
| Polio Vaccine | 1954 | Jonas | Salk | Health | 1914- | Sabine 1957 | |||||
| Kidney Transplant | 1954 | Health | |||||||||
| Oral Contraceptives | 1954 | Gregory | Pincus | Life Utilities | 1903-1967 | ||||||
| 3 Minute Mile | 1954 | Roger | Bannister | Understanding our Body | 1929- | ||||||
| Nuclear Submarine 1st Strike deletion | 1954 | Adm. Hyman | Rickover | War and Human Conflict | 1900-1986 | ||||||
| Carbon Dating | 1955 | Earth History | Geology | ||||||||
| Dr. Seuss-Green Eggs and Ham | 1955 | Theodore | Geisel | Learning & Teaching | Seuss | 1904-1991 | |||||
| Country Arts/Music | 1955 | Chuck | Berry | Mobility & Communication | 1926- | ||||||
| Fiber Optics | 1955 | N | Kapany | Mobility & Communication | Communications | ||||||
| Anti-Proton | 1955 | Emilio/Owen | Segre/ Chamberlain | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| Father of Fast Food | 1955 | Ray | Kroc | Social Changes | 1902-1984 | ||||||
| Beginning of the end to Racism | 1955 | Rosa | Parks | Social Changes | |||||||
| Rock and Roll | 1956 | Buddy | Holly | Arts/Music | |||||||
| Rock & Roll | 1956 | Elvis | Presley | Arts/Music | 1935-1977 | Arts/Music | |||||
| Sitar Arts/Music Popularity | 1956 | Ravi | Shankar | Arts/Music | 1920- | ||||||
| Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) | 1956 | Zworykin | Farnsworth | Life Utilities | ck date? | 1906-1971 | |||||
| Video Tape | 1956 | Gharles Ginsberg | Dolby, Ray | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Global Interconnection | 1956 | Airfreight | Mobility & Communication | ck date? | |||||||
| Interferon | 1957 | Isaacs | Lendanor | Health | Medicine | ||||||
| Heart Pacemaker | 1957 | Clarence | Lillehei | Health | |||||||
| Unraveling the Linguistic sources | 1957 | Noam | Chomsky | Human Psychology | 1928- | MIT | |||||
| Objectivism-Individual all | 1957 | Ayn | Rand | Philosophy | 1905-1982 | Logical Positivism, outward directed, relaity oriented. | |||||
| Superconductor | 1957 | Bardeen et al | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | Materials | |||||||
| Radio Astronomy | 1957 | Bernard | Lovell | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | 1913- | ||||||
| 1st Sattelite - Sputnik | 1957 | USSR | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | ||||||||
| Xerox dry Copying | 1958 | Chester | Carlson | Mobility & Communication | 1906-1968 | ||||||
| Marxism and Chinese Social Order | 1958 | Mao Tse | Tung | Social Changes | ck date? | Mobility & Communication | |||||
| Astralo Pithacus - Homo Habilus | 1959 | Family | Leakey | Earth History | |||||||
| Integrated Circuit | 1959 | Jack | Kilby | Mobility & Communication | TI | ||||||
| Anti-proton | 1959 | Emilio/Owen | Segre/Chamberlain | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | 1905- | ||||||
| Imagine - Arts/Music inside the heart | 1959 | John | Lennon | War and Human Conflict | 1940-1980 | 1971-Imagine | |||||
| Heart Transplant | 1960 | Christian | Barnard | Health | |||||||
| Ruby Laser | 1960 | Maiman | Bloembergen | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| American slash poetry | 1960 | Anne | Sexton | Poetry | 1928-1974 | ||||||
| Economic Philos./ Knowledge Worker | 1960 | Peter | Drucker | Social Changes | |||||||
| Power to overcome incapacity | 1960 | Helen | Keller | Social Changes | 1880-1960 | ||||||
| 2nd Industrial Revolution | 1960 | Social Changes | ck date? | Eli Fernald | |||||||
| To Kill a Mockingbird | 1961 | Harper | Lee | Capture of Life Passed/Present | Lit. | GEF | |||||
| Electronic Crystal Watch | 1961 | Life Utilities | |||||||||
| 1st Personed Sattelite | 1961 | USSR | Gagarin | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| 1st Rocket on the Moon | 1961 | USA | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | ||||||||
| Genetic Code | 1961 | Nirenberg | Understanding our Body | 1927- | |||||||
| Envirnomental Awareness-Silent Spring | 1962 | Rachel | Carson | Earth History | |||||||
| Rock and soul | 1962 | The | Beatles | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Communications Sattelite - Telstar-I | 1962 | Mobility & Communication | |||||||||
| Light Emitting Diode (LED) | 1962 | Mobility & Communication | |||||||||
| Greenhouse Effect | 1963 | Industrial | Revolution | Earth History | |||||||
| Folk Music Re-Invented | 1963 | Bob | Dylan | Social Changes | 1941- | ||||||
| Feminine Mystique | 1963 | Becky | Frieden | Social Changes | 1921- | ||||||
| Chemically Altered Perception | 1963 | Timothy | Leary | Social Changes | 1920-1996 | ||||||
| Vietnam | 1963 | Lyndon | Johnson | War and Human Conflict | |||||||
| Cosmic Background microwave radiations | 1964 | Gamow 1916 | Dicke | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| High Temp. Superconductors | 1964 | Muller | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | ||||||||
| 1st Rocket Landing on Mars | 1964 | USA | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | ||||||||
| Peaceful Student Resistance | 1964 | Mario | Savio | War and Human Conflict | FSM | 1943-1997 | |||||
| Opera | 1965 | Luciano | Pavarotti | Arts/Music | 1935- | ||||||
| Acid Rain | 1967 | Coal | Electricity | Earth History | |||||||
| 1st Heart Transplant | 1967 | Michael | DeBakey | Health | 1908- | ||||||
| Quarks | 1967 | Freidman | Taylor | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| Winning is the Only Thing' | 1967 | Vince | Lombardi | Sports Philosophy and Extensions elsewhere | 1913-1970 | ||||||
| Cloned Frogs | 1967 | Understanding our Body | |||||||||
| Green Revolution | 1968 | Norman | Borlaug | Earth History | 1914- | ||||||
| Rock and Roll | 1968 | Jimmy | Hendrix | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Fiber Optic Cable/Communication | 1968 | Mobility & Communication | ck date? | ||||||||
| Revisions to Spirituality | 1968 | Eastern | Religions | Social Changes | |||||||
| Great American Whore House | 1968 | Mustang Ranch | Understanding our Body | ||||||||
| Black Identity/Peaceful Resistance | 1968 | Martin | King | War and Human Conflict | Luther | ||||||
| Aritifical Heart (partial success) | 1969 | Robert | Jarvik | Health | S. | 1957 W. Kloff/ W. Brattain | |||||
| Muppets - Puppet Educators | 1969 | Jim | Henson | Learning & Teaching | 1936-1990 | ||||||
| 1st Person on the Moon | 1969 | USA | Kennedy | Physical Knowledge of our Universe | |||||||
| Powerful woman Politician | 1969 | Golda | Meir | Social Changes | 1898-1978 | ||||||
| Liquid Crystal Display LCD | 1970 | LaRoche | Life Utilities | ||||||||
| Fiber Optic telephony (wide use 1977) | 1970 | Mobility & Communication | |||||||||
| Hippies Summer of Love | 1970 | Haight | Ashbury | Social Changes | |||||||
| Feminism | 1970 | Germain | Greer | Social Changes | 1939- | ||||||
| Telethon | 1970 | Jerry | Lewis | Social Changes | 1926- | ||||||
| Recombinant DNA | 1970 | Nathans | Smith | Understanding our Body | |||||||
| Constructive Family Parody on TV | 1971 | Norman | Lear | Capture of Life Passed/Present | All in the family TV | gef | |||||
| Pocket Calculator | 1971 | TI | Life Utilities | ||||||||
| Compact Disk Audio | 1972 | RCA | Mobility & Communication | ||||||||
| Kids TV | 1973 | Rodgers | Henson | Learning & Teaching | |||||||
| Roe vs Wade Legal Abortion | 1973 | Social Changes | |||||||||
| Ozone layer impact of Freon | 1974 | Molina | Rowland | Earth History | |||||||
| Smog | 1975 | Automobiles | Earth History | ||||||||
| Crystal Oscillator Watch | 1975 | Life Utilities | ck date? | ||||||||
| Fission Failure TMI | 1975 | Lack of Atomic Power | Limits of Science and Engineering | check date TMI | |||||||
| Adaptive Equalization SNR Echo Cancelling | 1975 | Dr | Treickler | Mobility & Communication | ck date? | ||||||
| Social Sci-Fi TV Philosopher | 1975 | Gene | Roddenberry | Social Changes | ck date? | ||||||
| Economics | 1976 | Samuelson | Social Changes | ck date? | |||||||
| Future Revealing Movies | 1977 | George | Lucas | Social Changes | 1944- | ||||||
| Future Revealing Movies | 1977 | Stephen | Spielberg | Social Changes | 1947- | ||||||
| Genocide | 1978 | Pol | Pot | War and Human Conflict | 1928- | ||||||
| Duct Tape | 1979 | Life Utilities | ck date? | ||||||||
| Cheap High Quality Arts/Music Reproduction | 1979 | Joop Sinjou | Toshitada | Mobility & Communication | Dutch & Japanese | ||||||
| Dedication to the Helpless | 1979 | Mother | Theresa | Social Changes | 1910- | Albanian, Agnes Gonxha | |||||
| Doing Economics | 1979 | Paul | Volker | Social Changes | 1927- | Arts/Music | |||||
| CAT scanning | 1979 | Cornack | Hounsfield | Understanding our Body | ?1968 | ||||||
| Composit Graphite Materials | 1980 | Life Utilities | ck date? | ||||||||
| Container Ships | 1980 | Mobility & Communication | ck date? | ||||||||
| Space Shuttle Resuable Rocket | 1981 | NASA | Mobility & Communication | ||||||||
| Cell Phone | 1981 | Mobility & Communication | |||||||||
| First Female Supreme Court Justice | 1981 | Sandra Day | O'Connor | Social Changes | |||||||
| MacIntosh | 1982 | Wozniak & | Jobs | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| HIV and AIDS Epidemic scare | 1983 | Social Changes | |||||||||
| Fast Communication | 1985 | Fed | Ex | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| Internal Views of the Body | 1985 | Medical | Imaging | Understanding our Body | |||||||
| Clean burning | 1987 | Automobiles | Earth History | ||||||||
| Mountain Bikes and 24 human gears | 1987 | Many | Life Utilities | ||||||||
| Global Positioning System | 1987 | JJ | Spilkher | Mobility & Communication | ck date? | ||||||
| Coding and Decoding | 1987 | Mobility & Communication | ck date? | ||||||||
| Revisions to Spirituality | 1988 | Babba Ram | Daas | Social Changes | |||||||
| Post-it notes | 1989 | Life Utilities | ck date? | ||||||||
| WWW | 1989 | DARPA CERN | Bell Labs | Mobility & Communication | |||||||
| End of Marxism | 1989 | Mikhaul | Gorbachev | Social Changes | |||||||
| Muslim Re-Integration | 1989 | Salmon | Rushdie | Social Changes | 1947- | ||||||
| Financial Failure of Marxism | 1989 | USSR | Social Changes | ||||||||
| Elimination of CFC's | 1990 | Dow | Chemical | Earth History | ck date? | ||||||
| Graphical Transmission | 1990 | FAX | Mobility & Communication | ||||||||
| Spread Spectrum | 1990 | Mobility & Communication | ck date? | ||||||||
| Self Help/Death of Individualistic Thinking | 1990 | Social Changes | |||||||||
| Human Genome Project | 1990 | Understanding our Body | ck date? | ||||||||
| Constructive Humaness in TV | 1992 | Steven | Bochco | Capture of Life Passed/Present/Future | Hill Stree Blues TV | ||||||
| The Blackoning of Africa | 1994 | Nelson | Mandela | Social Changes | 1918- | ||||||
| AIDS Cocktail to slow affects | 1996 | NIH and | Many others | Health | |||||||
| Over-Population | 1999 | Social Changes | ck date? | ||||||||
| Black Power Awareness | Malcom | X | Social Changes | ||||||||
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