1960
Artificial sun tanning cream is developed.
Jan 1: The USS George Washington, a state-of-the-art nuclear-powered submarine, is commissioned.
Apr 1: Tiros 1, the first weather satellite, is launched.
May 16: Theodore Maiman used a synthetic ruby to produce a laser.
Aug 25: A Halogen Lamp which could fit into a standard lightbulb socket was invented by a general electric engineer, Fredrick Moby.
The USS Enterprise aircraft carrier, run by eight nuclear reactors, is commissioned by the US Navy.
Jan 31: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launches into space a capsule containing a chimpanzee, and successfully recovers the animal.
Feb 6: Texas Instruments files a patent for the first “Solid Circuit” silicon chip used in electronics, invented by Jack Kilby.
Apr 1: Cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin is the first Russian launched into space.
Apr 23: The first industrial robot arm was used in a die-casting factory.
Apr 25: The first patent for an integrated circuit awarded to Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductors.
May 5: Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. is the first American launched into space.
1962
Kelvinator produces a dishwasher that employs high-frequency sound waves, rather than soap and water.
Feb 14: Space War Video Game Realeased. This was the first computer game invented by Steve Russell, and the team took 200 hours to write the game.
Jun 16: Cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova is the first woman in space.
Jun 19: The first compact audio cassette tape released by Philips in the Netherlands.
Dec 14: The U.S. scientific space probe Mariner 2 reaches Venus 109 days after its launch.
1963
The USS Atlantis II clearly photographs the ocean floor.
Oct 27: Video Disk invented by Dr. David Paul Gregg - a camera which could store several minutes’ worth of images onto an optical video disk.
IBM produces a new product, the word processor, a hybrid of the typewriter and computer.
May 1: BASIC (early computer language) invented by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz.
Aug 5: Congress establishes the National Commission on Technology, Automation and Economic Progress, to analyze the impact of automation on unemployment.
1965
A computer at the New York Stock Exchange answers questions over the telephone using an artificial voice.
Traffic control in Chicago, New York, and Detroit becomes computerized
Jan 1: The first soft contact lens (invented by Kevin Tuohy in 1948) available.
Feb 17: Ranger 8, a moon probe, blasts off into space and sends back more than seven thousand images of the moon's surface before crashing into the lunar Sea of Tranquillity.
Jul 15: Mariner 4 sends the first close-up photographs of Mars.
Aug 5: Kevlar invented by Stephanie Kwolek - five times stronger than the same weight of steel.
Aug 17: Compact Disk: the optical digital technology was initially met with scepticism, as people didn't believe sound could be digitized.
1966
Jun 2: Sorcerer I makes the first soft landing on the moon.
July: Fibre Optics proposed in England by Charles Keo and George Hockham. This study first theorized about using glass fibres to implement optical communication, the ideas (especially structural features and materials) described are the basis of today's optical fibre communications.
Sep 1: 1st video game that could be displayed on TV - Television engineer Ralph Baer created "The Brown Box."
1967
Computer keyboards are developed, allowing immediate access between the operator and the computer.
RCA develops a compact television camera weighing just over two pounds.
A cordless, battery-powered telephone is developed.
A solar-powered house is built.
Mar 1: The first overseas direct telephone dialling begins.
Aug 25: First Handheld calculator invented by Texas Instruments.
Scientists use radar to map the surface of Venus.
The picosecond, the smallest period of time detectable, is measured at Bell Laboratories.
Jan 1: First RAM chip - random-access memory allowed data to be accessed randomly, not just in the sequence it was recorded.
Aug 16: The Poseidon 3, a new missile that can be launched from submarines, is tested.
Oct 11: Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo flight, begins a seven-day mission.
Dec 9: First computer mouse publicly unveiled in 1968 by the inventor, Douglas C. Engelbart.
1969
William Ducie and Tom Parry Jones developed and marketed the first electronic breathalyser. The Road Safety Act 1967 introduced the first legally enforceable maximum blood alcohol level for drivers in the UK and introduced the roadside breathalyser, made available to police forces across the country.
Jan 22: The Atomic Energy Commission announces completion of the world's largest superconducting magnet.
Jul 16: Apollo 11 is launched. This flight culminates in the landing of the first human on the surface of the moon.
Sep 2: Fred J. Gentile and Jack Wu Chang invented the ATM network and were recognized by the United States Patent Office. The first ATM in the United States was installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
Oct 29: The first documented ARPANET connection was from UCLA to SRI. The ARPANET's technology and deployment laid the foundation for the development of the Internet.
Nov 18: Americans land on the moon for the second time in Apollo 12.
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