60'+Science&Techology

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 * 1960 – The first working [|laser] was demonstrated in May by [|Theodore Maiman] at [|Hughes Research Laboratories].
 * 1961 – First human spaceflight to orbit the Earth: [|Yuri Gagarin], [|Vostok 1].
 * 1962 – First trans-Atlantic satellite broadcast via the [|Telstar] satellite.
 * 1962 – The first computer video game, [|Spacewar!], is invented.
 * 1963 – [|Touch-Tone] telephones introduced.
 * 1964 – The first successful [|Minicomputer], [|Digital Equipment Corporation]’s 12-bit [|PDP-8], is marketed.
 * 1965 – [|Sony] markets the [|CV-2000], the first home video tape recorder.
 * 1966 – Construction on the [|World Trade Center] begins.
 * 1967 – First [|heart transplantation] operation.
 * 1968 – First humans to leave Earth's gravity influence and orbit another celestial body: [|Apollo 8].
 * 1969 – [|Arpanet], the research-oriented prototype of the [|Internet], was introduced.
 * 1969 – First humans to walk on the Moon: [|Apollo 11].
 * The [|Bosonic string theory], the original version of [|string theory], is developed in the late 1960s.

Other inventions of the 1960's include Astroturf (1964) and the ATM bank machine (1967).