1975 gave us some technological discoveries & inventions. We have written a list of the top 5 inventions that were made in the year 1975
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Digital camera
Invented by – Steven Sasson
Steven J. Sasson is an inventor of the self-contained (portable) digital camera and an American electrical engineer. In 1975, he developed the digital camera. A digital camera is a camera that takes pictures and stores them on a computer. The majority of cameras made today are digital, and they have largely replaced cameras that take images on photographic film. It weighed 8 pounds (3.6 kg) and had a resolution of of 100 x 100 pixels (0.01 megapixels). This technique takes 23 seconds to record the image onto a cassette tape. His camera only took black-and-white pictures. As he began his design effort, he imagined a camera without mechanical moving parts in the future.
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Microcomputer
Invented by – MITS
The MITS Altair 8800 is a microcomputer that was designed in 1974, and launched in 1975. It is based on the Intel 8080 processor. After being featured on the cover of Popular Electronics in January 1975, and being sold by mail order through advertisements in that magazine, Radio-Electronics, and other enthusiast magazines, interest expanded swiftly. As the first commercially successful personal computer, the Altair is often regarded as the spark that started the microcomputer revolution. In the form of the S-100 bus, the computer bus designed for the Altair became a de facto standard, and the first programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC.
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Ethernet
Invented by – Robert Metcalfe
In 1975, Robert "Bob" Metcalfe invented Ethernet. Networks throughout the 1960s and 1970s were haphazard jumbles of technology with little rhyme or rationale. But then Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center asked Robert "Bob" Metcalfe to set up a local-area network (LAN) (PARC). Ethernet, his invention, revolutionised everything. Ethernet is a group of wired computer networking technologies that are extensively used in LANs, MANs, and wide area networks (WAN). Over time, competing wired LAN technologies like as Token Ring, FDDI, and ARCNET have mostly been superseded by Ethernet.
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Breakaway rim
Invented by – Arthur Ehrat
Arthur Ehrat designed and patented a breakaway basketball rim out of bolts, metal braces, and one critical component: a portion of a John Deere cultivator's heavy-duty coil spring. His invention revolutionised basketball by allowing players to slam dunk the ball with fewer injuries and without bending or shattering the rims or backboards. Correspondence, legal documents (such as patent papers, litigation files, and licence agreements), photographs, and sketches related to the basketball innovation, as well as materials related to his two field spreader patents and other invention concepts, are all included in this collection.
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
Invented by – Wally Amos
Wallace "Wally" Amos, Jr. is a Tallahassee, Florida-based television personality, entrepreneur, and author. He is the creator of the well-known Amos chocolate-chip cookie. In 1975, he invented the world-famous chocolate chip cookies. A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that is distinguished by the presence of chocolate chips or chocolate morsels. Though American chefs Ruth Graves Wakefield and Sue Brides created the chocolate chip cookie in 1938, it became renowned after Amos chocolate chip cookies.
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