This website briefly overviews the many technological advancements that took place during the 1980s, consisting of national cooperation growth as business begins to expand out of America to foreign nations, vaccines being made such as the hepatitis-B vaccine, genetic growth hormones being developed, the evolution of computers, simple daily life benefits like contacts and other scientific inventions such as microscopes and other more advanced scientific technology.
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