TECHNOLOGY IN 1971

1971 Technology & Gadgets

Apollo 15 Gravity School

1971 saw Apollo 14 with astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission. Later that year with Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin rode the lunar rover.

Lunar rover

Walt Disney opens Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. It is the largest amusment park in the world designed for massive future expansions. Epcot Center opens in 1984. History of Walt Disney World

New stock market index called the Nasdaq debuts.

Intel releases the world’s first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.

• Oil Production from the North Sea begins in Norway
• Intel releases world’s first microprocessor, the 4004.
• Texas Instruments releases the first pocket calculator
• The First Internet Chat rooms appear
• The First Cat Scanner Produced by EMI
• BBC Open University broadcasts begin in the UK.
• The Aswan Dam is completed in Egypt
• The Worlds Largest Tanker 372,400 tons Nisseki Maru is launched
• Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
• Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover a day after landing on the surface.
• Three Soviet cosmonauts die during Soyuz 11 accident.
• First Soft Contact Lens became available commercially in the USA

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Microprocessor USA
Pocket Calculator The Sharp Company
E-Mail USA Ray Tomlinson
Floppy Disk USA by IBM

Liquid Crystal Displays ( LCD ) Switzerland