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1920
– Electric typewriter by Smathers |
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1921
– 'Robot' word coined by Karl Capek - R.U.R. play |
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1922
– Telephoto transmission by Francis Jenkins |
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1924
– Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp. becomes IBM |
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1924
– Statistical Process Control (SPC) by Bell labs |
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1924
– Iconoscope by Zworykin starts TV revolution |
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Plastics & Automatic Mechanization |
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1925
– Paint production from soybeans by George Washington Carver |
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1926
– Polymer chemistry ushers in plastics revolution |
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1929
– First liquid-fueled rocket launched by Goddard |
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1930
– Automatic transmission |
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1930
– Vannevar Bush of MIT completes the Differential Analyzer |
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1931
– Seminal book by Walter Shewart 'Economic Controls of
Quality of Manufactured
product' |
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1931
– Neoprene rubber produced |
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1932
– Stereo recording of music |
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1936
– Konrad Zuse's Z1 calculator type 'computer' |
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1937–
Alan Turing's "On Computable Numbers" starts computer
revolution |
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1937
– Electron microscope by Hillier and Prebus |
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1938
– Willard Pollard and Harold Rosefund programmable mechanism
for spraying
paint for DeVilbiss |
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1938
– Nylon, polyvinyl, polystyrene introduced |
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1938
– Automatic clothes dryer, radar |
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1938
– Saran |
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1939
– World War II starts |
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1939
– 'Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control
by Walter Shewart
- Deming mentor and the origin of statistical approach to manufacturing
quality |
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1939
– Shewhart's 'Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of
Quality Control' |
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1939
– FM broadcasting, self winding watches, helicopter, electron
microscope |
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1939
– Walter Shewart's statistical studies for manufacturing |
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1941
– Dacron invented |
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1942
– Computer experiment John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry's
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First Computer Age |
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1943
– Colossus calculator/computer by Alan Turning |
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1944
– Mark I Harvard/IBM computer |
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1944
– First programmer of Mark I Grace Hopper |
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1945
– LP concept established by Goldmark |
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1945
– ENIAC by Mauchly and Eckert |
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1945
– John von Neumann writes EDVAC program |
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1945-1970
– Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno and Toyota team
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key manufacturing strategy of 1970-2002 |
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1946
– George Devol patents the inventions that together make
up the first industrial
robot |
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1947
– Del Harder of Ford coins word 'automation' |
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1947
– Transistor invented by Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain
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starts |
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1947
– 'Cybernetics' defined by Norbert Wiener at MIT |
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1947
– Numerical controls developed by John T. Parsons |
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1948
– Norbet Wiener published 'Cybernetics' |
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1949
– Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
that defines
modern information theory |
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1949
– Iron ore memory by Jay Forrester |
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