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Events relating to technology
The first true synthesizer is put on the market by RCA Victor
The Mini is launched, designed by Alec Issigonis, and becomes the best-selling British car of all time
The first prototype of the Hovercraft, designed by British engineer Christopher Cockerell, crosses the English Channel
The St Lawrence Seaway, a joint Canadian and US project, links the Great Lakes and the sea
The Trans-Canada Highway is completed, stretching some 5000 miles across the continent
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Staten Island, is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 4260 feet (1298m)
The first communications satellite, Early Bird, is launched from Cape Carnaveral
The Anglo-French airliner Concorde makes its first supersonic test flight
An engineer in the newly formed Intel Corporation designs the first programmable microchip
The ARPANET, linking computers in four US cities, is the first step towards the internet
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs design and market a personal computer, calling it the Apple
The first flight by a solar-powered piloted aircraft is achieved when Larry Mauro's Solar Riser is able to climb to about 40 feet and glide for half a mile
The Humber Bridge crosses the Humber estuary in Britain, and is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 4626 feet (1410m)
The IBM PC 5150, the first Personal Computer, is launched with a chip by Intel and software by Microsoft
The first all-digital synthesizer, the DX7, is put on the market by Yamaha
The US system MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) becomes the industry standard for electronic communication in music
Philips and Sony jointly introduce a new device, the compact disc
A new version of the Apple adds the mouse to personal computers
At CERN, in Geneva, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau build ENQUIRE, a first step towards the future World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in Geneva, publishes the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, using CERN computers, puts online the first website at http://info.cern.ch
Work begins on China's ambitiious and controversial Three Gorges Dam project
France's President Mitterrand and the British queen Elizabeth II together open the tunnel under the English Channel
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Ph.D. students at Stanford University, register the domain name google.com
The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, linking Shikoku and Honshu in Japan, creates a new record as the longest suspension bridge
