Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

=== 1960s ===
[[File:0 series Yurakucho 19670505.jpg|thumb|The original 0 series Shinkansen train. Introduced in 1964, it reached a speed of {{convert|210|km/h|abbr=on}}.]]
* '''1960:''' The first functioning [[laser]] is invented by [[Theodore Maiman]].
* '''1963:''' The first [[electronic cigarette]] is created by Herbert A. Gilbert. [[Hon Lik]] is often credited with its invention as he developed the modern electronic cigarette and was the first to commercialize it.
* '''1964:''' [[Shinkansen]], the first [[high-speed rail]] commercial passenger service.
* '''1965:''' [[Kevlar]] is invented by [[Stephanie Kwolek]] at [[DuPont]].
* '''1969:''' The [[NPL network]] followed by the [[ARPANET#ARPANET deployed|ARPANET]] implement [[packet switching]] for [[data communication]],<ref name=":22">{{Cite journal |last1=John S |first1=Quarterman |last2=Josiah C |first2=Hoskins |date=1986 |title=Notable computer networks |journal=Communications of the ACM |language=EN |volume=29 |issue=10 |pages=932–971 |doi=10.1145/6617.6618 |s2cid=25341056 |quote=The first packet-switching network was implemented at the National Physical Laboratories in the United Kingdom. It was quickly followed by the ARPANET in 1969. |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.inc.com/computerfreaks |title=Computer Freaks |date=June 22, 2023 |last=Haughney Dare-Bryan |first=Christine |type=Podcast |publisher=Inc. Magazine |series=Chapter Two: In the Air |minutes=35:55 |quote=Leonard Kleinrock: Donald Davies ... did make a single node packet switch before ARPA did}}</ref> drawing on the concepts and designs of [[Donald Davies]],<ref name="Abbate20002">{{cite book |last1=Abbate |first1=Jane |author-link=Janet Abbate |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2BdY6WQo4AC&q=packet+switching&pg=PA125 |title=Inventing the Internet |date=2000 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0262261333 |pages=37–8, 58–9 |quote=The NPL group influenced a number of American computer scientists in favor of the new technique, and they adopted Davies's term "packet switching" to refer to this type of network. Roberts also adopted some specific aspects of the NPL design.}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Dr. Lawrence G. |date=November 1978 |title=The Evolution of Packet Switching |url=http://www.ismlab.usf.edu/dcom/Ch10_Roberts_EvolutionPacketSwitching_IEEE_1978.pdf |journal=IEEE Invited Paper |access-date=10 September 2017 |quote=In nearly all respects, Davies’ original proposal, developed in late 1965, was similar to the actual networks being built today. |archive-date=31 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181231092936/http://www.ismlab.usf.edu/dcom/Ch10_Roberts_EvolutionPacketSwitching_IEEE_1978.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Computer Pioneers - Donald W. Davies |url=https://history.computer.org/pioneers/davies.html |access-date=2020-02-20 |website=IEEE Computer Society |quote=The design of the ARPA network (ArpaNet) was entirely changed to adopt this technique. |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |title=Donald Davies|url=https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/donald-davies |access-date=20 April 2022 |website=www.internethalloffame.org |quote=the ARPANET received his network design enthusiastically and the NPL local network became the first two computer networks in the world using the technique.}}</ref> and [[Paul Baran]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |title=The real story of how the Internet became so vulnerable |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/05/30/net-of-insecurity-part-1/ |url-status=dead |access-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150530231409/http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/05/30/net-of-insecurity-part-1/ |archive-date=30 May 2015 |quote=Historians credit seminal insights to Welsh scientist Donald W. Davies and American engineer Paul Baran}}</ref> These are considered precursors to the modern [[Internet]].<ref name="Abbate20002" /><ref name=":5" />