Everyday Inventions since the 1930s

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Britain Since the 1930s

by Mandy Barrow

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Everyday Inventions since the 1930s

Date	Invention	Inventor
1931	Electric razor	Col Jacob Schick
1934	Trampoline	George Nissen and Larry Griswold
1938	Ballpoint pen	László Bíró
1938	Instant coffee	Nestle
1945	Microwave oven	Percy LeBaron Spence
1945	Tupperware (food containers)	Earl W. Tupper
1947	Long-playing record	Goldmark
1950	Credit card	Frank X McNamara
1955	Lego	Gotfried Kirk Christiansen
1956	Velcro	George de Mestral
1958	Videotape	A.M Poniatoff
1963	Ring pull can	Alcoa
1971	Digital watch	George Theiss / Willy Crabtree
1971	E-mail	Ray Tomlinson
1971	Pocket calculator	Sharp
1971	Personal computer	MITS
1975	Digital camera	Steven Sasson / Kodak
1979	Post-it notes	Spencer Silver / 3M
1979	Mobile phone	NTT
1979	Walkman (personal tape music player)	Akio Morita
1981	Compact disc	Philips
1982	Camcorder	Sony
1989	World Wide Web	Tim Berners-lee
1994	GPS (completed)	I. Getting / B. Parkinson
2000	ipod digital music player	Apple computer, Inc
2001	Self cleaning glass	Kevin Sanderson
2005	$100 wind-up laptop computer for use in the Third World countries	MIT Media Lab

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