iPhone
2007Development of the iPhone started in 2005 and was launched by Apple Inc as its first smartphone in 2007. The iPhone became the most popular Apple product ever.
Louise Brown first test tube baby
1978Louise Joy Brown was the first human born after conception by in vitro fertilisation experiment (IVF). She was born 25 July 1978 following a procedure pioneered in Britain, which has been claimed as one of "the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of the 20th Century".
First MRI scan of human body
1977Raymond Damadian, inventor of the first magnetic resonance scanning machine, performed the first full-body scan of a human being in 1977.
First heart transplant
1967The first successful human heart transplant took place in 1967, in Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The patient, Louis Washkansky, was terminally ill with heart failure. His surgeon was Christiaan Barnard.
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