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The HISTORY of REDDITCH New Town

1975 The laser printer invented.
The push-through tab on a drink can invented.
1976 The ink-jet printer invented.

1977 Magnetic resonance imaging invented by Raymond V. Damadian.
1978 Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston invented the VisiCalc spreadsheet.

The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
1979 Cell phones invented.
Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray.

Kevin MacKenzie invents symbols such as :-), or "emoticons", to mimic the
cues of face-to-face communication.
Scott Olson invents roller blades.

Walkman invented.
1980 The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.

1981 MS-DOS invented.
The first IBM-PC invented.

The scanning tunnelling microscope invented by Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich
Rohrer.

1983 Soft bifocal contact lens invented.
1984 Alec Jeffreys in Britain invents the DNA fingerprint that can identify an
individual.
Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.

1986 A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl
A. Muller.

1987 Disposable contact lenses invented.

1987 The first 3-D video game invented.
1988 Digital cellular phones invented.
Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler.

Prozac invented at the Eli Lilly Company by inventor Ray Fuller.
1989 High-definition television invented.

1991 The digital answering machine invented.
1993 The pentium processor invented.

1995 DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented.
1996 Web TV invented.
1997 The gas-powered fuel cell invented.

1998 Viagra invented.

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