The first solar cell factories were located in Ningbo and Kaifeng. Annual national solar capacity installations were still low, as only 0.5 kW of photovoltaic capacity was installed. This increased to 8 kW in 1980, 70 kW in 1985, 500 kW in 1990, and 1550 kW in 1995. Soon, China would become the world’s undisputed leader in solar energy production.
The new Instrument of Government stripped the king of even nominal political power and made Sweden a de facto crowned republic.
The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics.
Olivia Records was a collective founded in 1973 to record and market women’s music.
The Very Large Array is the most versatile, widely-used radio telescope in the world.
The British House of Lords voted to give the Bahamas its independence on 22 June 1973. It joined the Commonwealth of Nations weeks later.
Using a prototype of what would become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, the world’s first commercial cell phone, Cooper placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey.
The origins of the Oregon Waffle, afterwards named the Waffle Trainer, derive from Bowerman’s experiments with a simple waffle iron, the grooves of which proved to be a near perfect mold for a running shoe.
Scientific evidence had mounted that CFCs were damaging to Earth’s ozone layer. Sweden was the first to act on this evidence.
Pong quickly became a success and was the first commercially successful video game, which helped to establish the video game industry along with the first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey.
