Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

=== 1970s ===
* '''1970s:''' [[Public-key cryptography]] is invented and developed by [[James H. Ellis]], [[Clifford Cocks]], [[Malcolm J. Williamson]], [[Whitfield Diffie]], [[Martin Hellman]], [[Ralph Merkle]], [[Ron Rivest]], [[Adi Shamir]], [[Leonard Adleman]], et al.
* '''1970:''' The [[Calculator#Pocket calculators|pocket calculator]] is invented.
* '''1971:''' The first single-chip [[microprocessor]], the [[Intel 4004]], is invented. Its development was led by [[Federico Faggin]], using his [[silicon-gate]] [[MOSFET|MOS]] technology. This led to the [[personal computer]] (PC) revolution.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.computerhistory.org/siliconengine/microprocessor-integrates-cpu-function-onto-a-single-chip/ |title = 1971: Microprocessor Integrates CPU Function onto a Single Chip &#124; the Silicon Engine &#124; Computer History Museum}}</ref>
* '''1971:''' The first [[space station]], [[Salyut 1]], is launched.
* '''1971:''' [[IBM]] developed and released the world's first [[floppy disk]] and [[disk drive]].<ref name="computerhistory.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/261|title=Floppy Disks - CHM Revolution|website=www.computerhistory.org|access-date=October 6, 2017|archive-date=2017-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103071537/http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/261|url-status=live}}</ref>
* '''1972:''' The first [[video game console]], used primarily for playing video games on a TV, is the [[Magnavox Odyssey]].<ref name="HilbertLopez2011">[https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1200970 "The World's Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information"], Martin Hilbert and Priscila López (2011), [[Science (journal)|Science]], 332(6025), 60-65; free access to the article through here martinhilbert.net/WorldInfoCapacity.html</ref>
* '''1973:''' The first fiber optic communication systems were developed by [[Optelecom]].<ref>Nick Taylor. Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War. Simon & Schuster. 2000</ref>
* '''1973:''' The first commercial [[graphical user interface]] is introduced in 1973 on the [[Xerox Alto]]. The modern GUI is later popularized by the [[Xerox Star]] and [[Apple Lisa]].
* '''1973:''' The first [[Touchscreen#Capacitive|capacitive touchscreen]] is developed at [[CERN]].
* '''1974:''' The [[Transmission Control Program]] is proposed by [[Vinton Cerf]] and [[Robert E. Kahn]], building on the work of [[Louis Pouzin]] and other [[Internet pioneer]]s, creating the basis for the modern [[Internet]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Cerf |first1=V. |last2=Kahn |first2=R. |date=1974 |title=A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication |url=https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf |journal=IEEE Transactions on Communications |volume=22 |issue=5 |pages=637–648 |doi=10.1109/TCOM.1974.1092259 |issn=1558-0857 |quote=The authors wish to thank a number of colleagues for helpful comments during early discussions of international network protocols, especially R. Metcalfe, R. Scantlebury, D. Walden, and H. Zimmerman; D. Davies and L. Pouzin who constructively commented on the fragmentation and accounting issues; and S. Crocker who commented on the creation and destruction of associations.}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite news |date=30 November 2013 |title=The internet's fifth man |newspaper=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21590765-louis-pouzin-helped-create-internet-now-he-campaigning-ensure-its |access-date=22 April 2020 |issn=0013-0613 |quote=In the early 1970s Mr Pouzin created an innovative data network that linked locations in France, Italy and Britain. Its simplicity and efficiency pointed the way to a network that could connect not just dozens of machines, but millions of them. It captured the imagination of Dr Cerf and Dr Kahn, who included aspects of its design in the protocols that now power the internet.}}</ref>
* '''1974:''' The [[lithium-ion battery]] is invented by [[M. Stanley Whittingham]], and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by [[John B. Goodenough]], [[Rachid Yazami]] and [[Akira Yoshino]]. It has impacted modern [[consumer electronics]] and [[electric vehicle]]s.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/environmental-safety-recipients.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325040102/https://www.ieee.org/about/awards/bios/environmental-safety-recipients.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=25 March 2019 | title=IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies Recipients| website=[[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]] (IEEE)}}</ref>
* '''1974:''' The [[Rubik's Cube|Rubik's cube]] is invented by [[Ernő Rubik]] which went on to be the best selling [[puzzle]] ever.<ref name="castel">{{Cite news |last=de Castella |first=Tom |date=28 April 2014 |title=The people who are still addicted to the Rubik's Cube |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27186297 |access-date=28 April 2014 |work=BBC News Magazine |publisher=BBC}}</ref>
* '''1977:''' Dr Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger invented a new [[DNA sequencing]] method for which they won the [[Nobel Prize]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Gilbert|first1=Walter|last2=Maxam|first2=Allan|date=February 1977|title=A new method for sequencing DNA|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|volume=74 |issue=2|pages=560–566|doi=10.1073/pnas.74.2.560|pmid=265521|pmc=392330|bibcode=1977PNAS...74..560M|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* '''1977:''' The first [[self-driving car]] that did not rely upon rails or wires under the road is designed by the Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Laboratory.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.web2carz.com/autos/car-tech/6396/the-vamors-was-the-worlds-first-real-deal-autonomous-car|title=The VaMoRs Was the World's First Real-Deal Autonomous Car &#124; Web2Carz|date=28 February 2017|website=Web2Carz.com}}</ref>
* '''1978:''' The [[Global Positioning System]] (GPS) enters service. While not the first [[Satellite navigation]] system, it is the first to enter widespread civilian use.
* '''1979:''' The first handheld game console with interchangeable game cartridges, the [[Microvision]] is released.
* '''1979:''' [[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone]] (NTT) launched the first cellular network in Japan.<ref>Garcia-Swartz, Daniel D, and Martin Campbell-Kelly. [https://watermark.silverchair.com/c001700_9780262370011.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAA1EwggNNBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggM-MIIDOgIBADCCAzMGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMdfdIw9EUcJh3wr1MAgEQgIIDBKoiLSROBm6jhDF-QaJ_82PXbPJ1lhqmG-X-Yqt2Xi0gi_GzWfkLC8lW_XVrHrT_Jbref1FPziJU0_Q_bztUIErncsgCLctRwzhcQ9l99sWd0uszbmd-JUKPbRca485OKhAhtnXH0F-Sg7C-fKivMrN2o6LuwONWpCgDIxm6eStLl-SfhQN1ZO7pZvKD5_GKc4vVXjh3JLOWMgoBmpk4RuUeQIjoTlbGlNcK3q-InBXM4BgypLkGwZttoOXWslAeXwxclSppiyGy9P3lQp6jBNHrHLzVmYO_R02VFR7uk2VqnSjhScJdropIVWnbuftAwpw_-c5R6xqJfbuLhfUJv2wPJMpJSj1cF5EYZtvfGQQaYIO8Lp0xuRyNt5DDhRRY8RQLHAZm0yQKzubQ11TNpcfFO2Glc2zmJ6SLBC0RUDmHT_j9-osG0twobaYiJeIW7BjtjMETUzCx4mPgiAs72HwSDU1JKc2wy-wXo7V_1S52NjqMXbOZn6ZEweUBqyW31coGOSWmN5qe5gcd-wGDSrNfXtwF-CDPrCLehsYV7KysoSRY-1QoDq3V8sKl25Dek84fXersK8Rc3-UtWR7ltG4QfdeHHtPNyNOCctcoYMsPtfB5Cb5EeGCwPojyiO3VD30n3u6LxQEr5u-2j3i3dAYkUoQ5VL0bkWNoooVVxvZQw4zP2dBhySWrA1h4_XpTEvnA4UTWwJaZN0poSoBsFFgSxjrz9CS4m-f-78p9eTbG36oajZoZN7sav1PB0oiWCaI6sFugKLaSR-NYnRxdvZ5sUQVYZ8KbPUH17UjiPrSExKkxk0yMeXc2tOipvDMQnv62SjzR9Ko9qSYcJQh8hXEMgxJAkquC3OnNHbWaMR9rVIzyep1t-pT88sLoVG4gD8EKAp7Yd7DqfWwKZg2-TjIYxpmJT4kjqfrG74m21IVHiyGzNJ9NayY67pHAOgyRxRucX_v8vIiQX0ZFS3zxccr64iLV9GeKyUYZz2iT1Y3iXuGTDsEkpsT0qTIndg5lLgZDf-0 “The First Cellular Systems: Japan, Europe, and the United States.”] Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry, The MIT Press, pp. 52–52.</ref>
* '''1979:''' Public dialup information, messaging and e-commerce services, were pioneered through [[CompuServe]] and [[RadioShack]]'s MicroNET, and the UK's [[Post Office Telecommunications]] [[Prestel]] services.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Tweney |first=Dylan |title=Sept. 24, 1979: First Online Service for Consumers Debuts |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/2009/09/0924compuserve-launches/ |access-date=26 February 2022 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC - A History of the World - Object : Prestel badge |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/mWvJg15mRuOLEwrqZKVjBw |access-date=26 February 2022 |website=BBC}}</ref>