Included in the rankings:
+ 1955--TV Remote Control
+ 1958--Jet Airliner
+ 1962--Communications Satellite
+ 1971--Waffle Sole Running Shoes
+ 1978--GPS
+ 1984--DNA Fingerprinting
+ 1987--Prozac
+ 2002--IEEE 802.16
++ From a section of Quotes:
1962 Computer Mouse
"I don't know why we call it a mouse. It started that way, and we never changed it." --Doug Engelbart, engineer, Stanford Research Institute, 1968
1969 Automated Teller Machine
"On Sept. 2, our bank will open at 9:00 and never close again!" --Long Island branch of Chemical Bank, advertisement from 1969
1973 Cellphone
"Joel, I'm calling you from a real cellular phone." --Martin Cooper, leader of Motorola's cellphone team, to Joel Engel, research head of rival AT&T's Bell Labs, April 3, 1973
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