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Richard E LONG

Richard E LONG

Male 1939 - 1945  (6 years)  


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   Date  Event(s)
1939 
  • 1939: World War II begins. Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. 1939-1945.
  • 1939: Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
1940 
  • 1940: Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.
  • 1940: Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
1941 
  • 1941: Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
1942 
  • 1942: John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
1943 
  • 1943: Richard James invents the slinky.
  • 1943: James Wright invent silly putty.
  • 1943: Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
  • 1943: Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
1944 
  • 1944: The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
  • 1944: Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
1945 
  • 1945: World War II ends.
  • 1945: Harry Truman president of the USA 1945-1953.
  • 1945: The atomic bomb invented.

 
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