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1960 Technology & Gadgets
 The Pill
Enovid 10, the first birth control pill went on sale in
Skokie, Ilinois for 50 cents a day which began the sexual revolution. Enovid 10
The Answering Machine
Kazuo Hashimoto Invents the Ansafone sold in the USA as an
Automatic Telephone Answering Machine. Ansafone
TIROS-1 Weather Satellite
The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.
 Communications Satellite
AT&T
Labs launched Echo, a giant balloon to bounce signals between
ground based receivers. Echo
 The Copy Machine
The Rank Xerox Standard 1385 copying machine
goes to market. The Xeros 1385 |
1960 Toys & Gadgets
Chatty Cathy
First popular
talking doll, spoke 11 random phrases at the
pull of a string. The original voice was June
Foray who also did the voice of Rocket J.
Squirrel in the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons. Chatty Cathy
Legos - The Brits successfully enter the
American toy market with Legos.
Etch-a-Sketch
High tech toy from France is a big hit, everyone seems to have had one at one time or another. Etch-a-Sketch
More
Gadgets
The Modem
Bell Telephone Laboratories
invent the modem using the binary code patented by Jean-Emile Baudot in 1874.
The Laser
Theodore Maiman uses a synthetic ruby to
build first true laser.
Teflon Non-sticking
cookware goes on sale at Macy's in
New York
The ATM
The Hologram
Heart Pacemaker |
