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Heather Joy Roffman

Female 1969 - 1986  (17 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1969 
  • 1969: Richard Nixon president of the USA 1969-1974.
  • 1969: The arpanet (first internet) invented.
  • 1969: The artificial heart invented.
  • 1969: The ATM invented.
  • 1969: The bar-code scanner is invented.
1970 
  • 1970: The daisy-wheel printer invented.
  • 1970: The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
1971 
  • 1971: VCR or videocassette recorder invented.
  • 1971: The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
  • 1971: The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
  • 1971: The food processor invented.
  • 1971: The dot-matrix printer invented.
1972 
  • 1972: The word processor invented.
  • 1972: Pong (first video game) invented by Nolan Bushnell.
  • 1972: Hacky Sack® invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall.
1973 
  • 1973: Gene splicing invented.
  • 1973: The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
  • 1973: Bic invents the disposable lighter.
1974 
  • 1974: The post-it note invented by Arthur Fry.
  • 1974: Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction.
  • 1974: Gerald Ford president of the USA 1974-1977.
  • 1974: Richard M. Nixon first president of USA to resign from office. His decision was announced 8 Aug 1974.
1975 
  • 1975: The laser printer invented.
  • 1975: The push-through tab on a drink can invented.
  • 1975: USA Vietnam War Ends
1976 
  • 1976: The ink-jet printer invented.
1977 
  • 1977: Jimmy Carter president of the USA 1977-1981.
  • 1977: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) invented by Raymond V. Damadian.
10 1978 
  • 1978: The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
11 1979 
  • 1979: Cellular phones invented.
  • 1979: Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray.
  • 1979: Walkman invented.
  • 1979: Scott Olson invents roller blades.
12 1980 
  • 1980: The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.
13 1981 
  • 1981: Ronald Reagan president of the USA 1981-1989.
  • 1981: MS-DOS invented.
  • 1981: The first IBM-PC invented.
14 1982 
  • 1982: Human growth hormone genetically engineered.
15 1983 
  • 1983: Grenada: United States Intervention 1983.
  • 1983: Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual reality."
  • 1983: First Cabbage Patch Kids sold.
  • 1983: Soft bifocal contact lens invented.
16 1984 
  • 1984: The CD-ROM invented.
  • 1984: The Apple Macintosh invented.
17 1985 
  • 1985: Windows program invented by Microsoft.
18 1986 
  • 1986: Fuji introduced the disposable camera.