1968 Technology &
Gadgets
The first really big commercial airliner, the Boeing 747 rolls off the line, shown here with a 737 chassis parked beneath it.
Not to be out done, in the same year Lockheed produces the biggest plane in the world, the C-5A Galaxy for the USAF.
 America's first emergency 911 system went into service in Haleyville, Alabama. Because of technical switching and phone systems not in line to government systems 911 calls did not become universal until 1981.
London Bridge is bought by oil executive and real estate magnate Robert McCulloch, who re assembled it as a publicity stunt to put his new tourist attraction of Lake Havasu City, Arizona on the map. London bridge not to be confused with the Tower Bridge shown below.
America's second Nuclear-powered sub the USS Scorpion with 99 men aboard sank off the coast of the Azores in the East Atlantic. The nuclear sub USS Thresher sank off the coast of Maine in 1963
The Soviet Union Soyuz 4 and 5 completed the 1st docking of manned spacecraft.
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