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1963 Sketchpad, one of the first computer-aided design programs.
1969 World's first solar power station opened in France.
1960 Theodore Maiman invents the ruby laser.
1957 Soviet Union launch the Sputnik space satellite.
1966 Stephanie Kwolek patents a super-strong plastic called Kevlar.
1954 Indian physicist Narinder Kapany pioneers fibre optics.
1950 Percy Spencer invents the microwave oven.
1947 The transistor allowing electronic equipment to made smaller.
1949 Barcodes for marking products in grocery stores.
1969 American astronauts walk on the Moon.
1952 Invention of car airbag.
1965 Portable defibrillator for treating cardiac arrest patients.
1956 First commercial nuclear power station in Cumbria, England.
1962 Nick Holonyak invents the LED (light-emitting diode)
1969 GORE-TEX® waterproof clothing by stretching Teflon®.
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Here is a picture of a computer, one of the major technological developments of recent years.
On the right hand side are a number of these developments from 1947-1970.
Drag and drop the cells on the right onto the picture and the technologies will appear.
Sort these by date order, from the earliest to the latest by dragging and dropping them to the bottom of the list.