The sourcebook still considered the leading source of global chemical business analysis for more than 300 industrial chemicals.
Seminal Innovations
Return to the Timeline of innovation.
Banking automation: ERMA
Easier money counting led to easier money making.
Laser photocoagulation for ophthalmology
A better way to look at eye surgery.
Anti-viral: Vidarabine
Drug originally intended to fight cancer discovered effective against herpes simplex and varicella zoster viruses.
Optical video disk
Optical recording paves the way for first video disk recording/playback system.
CMOS integrated circuit
Vital technology still found in most of the world’s electronic circuitry.
The computer mouse and interactive computing
Your Mouse. Our “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System.” Thankfully Mouse won out.
Head Start Program
Assessment of federal efforts to reduce poverty leads to groundbreaking research methodology.
Spindt cold cathode for displays
Revolutionary cathode led to today’s “instant-on” flat-panel computers and televisions.