1960`S MUSIC:
Significant events
fashionable items
he 1960s featured a number of diverse trends.
It was a decade that broke many fashion traditions
the fashion mirrored the social events during that time.
culottes, go-go boots, box-shaped
PVC dresses and other PVC clothes were popular.
he 1960s featured a number of diverse trends.
It was a decade that broke many fashion traditions
the fashion mirrored the social events during that time.
culottes, go-go boots, box-shaped
PVC dresses and other PVC clothes were popular.
list of techonology
The first video game console
we have a lot to thank Ralph Baer for when he envisioned the original in 1966. In May of 1967 he played the very first two-player video game, which he lost, and in 1968 he completed the working prototype.
The first computer mouse
Douglas Engelbart completely changed the way people interacted with computers when he invented the computer mouse in 1964. His creation was made from wood and had two gear-wheels that sat perpendicular to one another so as to allow movement on one axis. When you moved the mouse the horizontal wheel moved sideways and the vertical wheel slid along the surface. He filed for the patent in 1967 as the "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System."
Light Emitting Diodes
It was British born H.J Round who first reported a light-emitting solid-state diode in 1907 but his work was to languish, along with that by Oleg Vladimirovich Losev, until 1962. In this year, while working at General Electric Company, Nick Holonyak Jr created the first practical visible-spectrum LED. Described as the "father of the light-emitting diode", Holonyak's LEDs were red and not really bright enough to light an area effectively.
Dynamic Random Access Memory
While not technically the man who invented RAM, Robert Dennard was the man who redesigned and modified it to create Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM). His insights into how RAM could function more efficiently over a smaller space mean that computers got more memory for less cost and, frankly, took up less space.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
Just so we could strap it to a shark's head and use it in nefarious ways to kill James Bond, Theodore Maiman perfected the laser in 1960. From bar code readers to precise medical procedures to accurate measurement devices, lasers have become an essential part of our lives and it was Maiman's determination at a time when others were losing interest in the subject that we have to thank.
The first video game console
we have a lot to thank Ralph Baer for when he envisioned the original in 1966. In May of 1967 he played the very first two-player video game, which he lost, and in 1968 he completed the working prototype.
The first computer mouse
Douglas Engelbart completely changed the way people interacted with computers when he invented the computer mouse in 1964. His creation was made from wood and had two gear-wheels that sat perpendicular to one another so as to allow movement on one axis. When you moved the mouse the horizontal wheel moved sideways and the vertical wheel slid along the surface. He filed for the patent in 1967 as the "X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System."
Light Emitting Diodes
It was British born H.J Round who first reported a light-emitting solid-state diode in 1907 but his work was to languish, along with that by Oleg Vladimirovich Losev, until 1962. In this year, while working at General Electric Company, Nick Holonyak Jr created the first practical visible-spectrum LED. Described as the "father of the light-emitting diode", Holonyak's LEDs were red and not really bright enough to light an area effectively.
Dynamic Random Access Memory
While not technically the man who invented RAM, Robert Dennard was the man who redesigned and modified it to create Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM). His insights into how RAM could function more efficiently over a smaller space mean that computers got more memory for less cost and, frankly, took up less space.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
Just so we could strap it to a shark's head and use it in nefarious ways to kill James Bond, Theodore Maiman perfected the laser in 1960. From bar code readers to precise medical procedures to accurate measurement devices, lasers have become an essential part of our lives and it was Maiman's determination at a time when others were losing interest in the subject that we have to thank.
my personal choice of a category:
my personal choice of a category from the 1960`s is Kennedy Assassination.
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas on Nov 22, 1963
then Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as president the same day.
featured artist: the who
my personal choice of a category from the 1960`s is Kennedy Assassination.
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas on Nov 22, 1963
then Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as president the same day.
featured artist: the who
the album i chose from the who is tommy