24 HOURS - a few inventions since 1948

• Airbags - 1973
• On April Fool's Day, 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the Apple I computer and started Apple Computers. The Apple I was the first with a single circuit board used in a computer.
• A patent for astroturf was filed for on December 25, 1965 and issued by the USPTO on July 25, 1967.
• Some experts have the opinion that James Goodfellow of Scotland holds the earliest patent date of 1966 for a modern ATM, and John D White (also of Docutel) in the US is often credited with inventing the first free-standing ATM design. In 1967, John Shepherd-Barron invented and installed an ATM in a Barclays Bank in London.
• The Barbie doll was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler.
• In 1951, the first video tape recorder (VTR) captured live images from television cameras by converting the information into electrical impulses (digital) and saving the information onto magnetic tape.
• The first DVD players appeared in Japan in November, 1996, followed by U.S. players in March, 1997.
• Computer engineer, Ray Tomlinson invented internet based email in late 1971.
• First marketed on July 12, 1960, the Etch-A-Sketch ® was developed in the late 1950s by Frenchman, Arthur Granjean.
• The press has often stated that ethernet was invented on May 22, 1973, when Robert Metcalfe wrote a memo to his bosses stating the possibilities of ethernet's potential, but Metcalfe claims ethernet was actually invented very gradually over a period of several years.
• In 1971, IBM introduced the first "memory disk", as it was called then, or the "floppy disk" as it is known today.
• Hacky Sack or Footbag, as we know it today, is a modern American sport invented in 1972, by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall of Oregon City, Oregon.
• In September of 1998, Google Inc. opened in Menlo Park, California and Google.com, a beta search engine, was answering 10,000 search queries every day.
• The first video home security system was patented (patent #3,482,037) on December 2, 1969 to Marie Brown.
• On a cold war kind of day, in swinging 1969, work began on the ARPAnet, grandfather to the Internet.
• The original laser printer called EARS was developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center beginning in 1969 and completed in November, 1971.
• The first metal lunchbox produced was the Hopalong Cassidy created by the Aladdin Company of Nashville in 1950.
• Digital modems developed from the need to transmit data for North American air defense during the 1950s. Modems were used to communicate data over the public switched telephone network or PSTN. Analog telephone circuits can only transmit signals that are within the frequency range of voice communication.

OK, so I only got through the "M"s this morning but you get the picture...A LOT has happened since 1948! :-)

Love ya dad!
H