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1994 Ricardo Dela Corte, Italy, test tube baby born to oldest, 62, mother

1990 Right to Die case permits Nancy Cruzan to have her feeding tube removed, she dies 12 days later

1982 Vladimir K Zworykin, Russ/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies

1981 Elizabeth Jordan Carr, 1st American test tube baby

1978 Louise Joy Brown, born in Oldham, England, world's 1st "test tube baby"

1973 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St. Station

1967 DNA created in a test tube

1961 Lee de Forest, inventor (Electron Tube), dies at 87

1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour

1949 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Oh

1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St. Louis, Mo

1935 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York

1915 Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude

1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr. Lee De Forest

1906 Dr. Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)

1901 Allen B DuMont, inventor, perfected coml practical cathode ray tube

1892 Dr. Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube

1873 Lee De Forest, Council Bluffs, inventor, Audion vacuum, radio, tube



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