1963 ⟶ Invention of the First Electronic Cigarette
The first electronic cigarette is created by Herbert A. Gilb...
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🧹 First Powered Vacuum Cleaner Patented
The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "vacuum cleaner", is patented independently by Hubert Cecil Booth and David T. Kenney.⟶
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United States💡 Percy Spencer Patents Magnetron Microwave Oven
Percy Spencer, while employed at Raytheon, would patent a magnetron based microwave oven.⟶
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United States💨 Invention of the First Electronic Cigarette
The first electronic cigarette is created by Herbert A. Gilbert. Hon Lik is often credited with its invention as he developed the modern electronic cigarette and was the first to commercialize it.⟶
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🧮 Invention of the Pocket Calculator
🔋 Invention of the Lithium-Ion Battery
The lithium-ion battery is invented by M. Stanley Whittingham, and further developed in the 1980s and 1990s by John B. Goodenough, Rachid Yazami and Akira Yoshino. It has impacted modern consumer electronics and electric vehicles.⟶
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