Science & Technology
1970-1974
*Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
*Apollo 13 is launched.
*Apollo 13 returns safely to earth.
*China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched to orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket.
*The floppy disk came out
*Intel introduced the microprocessor in
*The VCR and videocassete recorder was invented in
*In 1973 Herb Boyer and Stanely Cohen showed that it was possible to take a human gene and put it in a bacterium that could then mass-produce of that gene. This immediately opened up enormous industrial possibilities by presenting an easy way to mass-produce hormones.
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