By the early 1970s electronic pocket calculators ended manufacture of mechanical calculators, although the Curta remains a popular collectable item.

The Casio CM-602 Mini electronic calculator provided basic functions in the 1970s

Through the 1970s the hand-held electronic calculator underwent rapid development.

At the beginning of the 1970s hand-held electronic calculators were very expensive, costing two or three weeks ' wages, and so were a luxury item.

Developed in the early 1970s at IBM and based on an earlier design by Horst Feistel, the algorithm was submitted to the National Bureau of Standards ( NBS ) following the agency's invitation to propose a candidate for the protection of sensitive, unclassified electronic government data.

Some disco songs incorporated sounds produced with synthesizers and drum machines, and some compositions were entirely electronic ; examples include Giorgio Moroder's late 1970s productions such as Donna Summer's hit single " I Feel Love " from 1977, Cerrone's Supernature ( 1977 ), Yellow Magic Orchestra's synth-disco-pop productions from their self-titled album ( 1978 ), Solid State Survivor ( 1979 ), and several early 1980s disco-pop productions by the Hi-NRG group Lime.

Fortunately, techniques to gather knowledge from an overabundance of electronic information ( e. g., data fusion may help in data mining ) have existed since the 1970s.

The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using binary-coded decimal ( BCD ) arithmetic on 4-bit words ..

By the end of the 1970s, electronic musical devices were becoming increasingly common and affordable in North America, Europe and Japan.

The combination of acknowledged corruption at the border and high import tariffs led smugglers in the 1970s and ‘ 80s to fly electronic equipment such as stereos and televisions in cargo planes from one country to clandestine landing strips in another, thereby circumventing encounters at the frontier between countries.

The character Uli Kunkel was in the German electronic band Autobahn, a homage to the 1970s band Kraftwerk.

It was created for the emerging Pre-Press industry going electronic in the late 1970s.

They were used in air conditioning and cooling units, as aerosol spray propellants prior to the 1970s, and in the cleaning processes of delicate electronic equipment.

It was 10: 1 from its inception in the 1950s until the 1970s, when advancing technology made 10: 1 impossible for most electronic measurements.

Throughout the 1970s, electro-mechanical arcade games were gradually replaced by electronic video games, following the release of Pong in 1972.

As synthesizers became more affordable and less unwieldy, many more bands and producers began using them, eventually paving the way for bands that consisted solely of synthesizers and other electronic instruments such as drum machines by the late 1970s / early 1980s.

Automated wire-wrap machines, as manufactured by the Gardner Denver Company in the 1960s and 1970s, were capable of automatically routing, cutting, stripping and wrapping wires onto an electronic " backplane " or " circuit board ".

Due to the exploding complexity of digital electronic circuits since the 1970s, partly due to Moore's law in semiconductors, circuit designers needed digital logic descriptions to be done at a high level without specifics to a particular electronic

The 17th Defense Systems Evaluation Squadron, equipped with EB-57 Canberras, was activated in the 1970s to train NORAD air defense personnel in electronic countermeasures.

It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the " Krautrock " of bands like Kraftwerk.

In the 1970s, Sperry Corporation was an old-school conglomerate headquartered in the Sperry Rand Building at 1290 Avenue of Americas in Manhattan, selling typewriters ( Sperry Remington ), office equipment, electronic digital computers for business and the military ( Sperry Univac ), farm equipment ( Sperry New Holland ), avionics ( e. g. gyroscopes, radars, Air Route Traffic Control equipment ) ( Sperry Vickers / Sperry Flight Systems ), and consumer products ( electric razors ) ( Sperry Remington.

Some progress was made in the field of photographic emulsions and in the techniques of forming gas hypersensitization, cryogenic cooling, and light amplification, but starting in the 1970s after the invention of the CCD, photographic plates have given way to electronic imaging in professional observatories.

Several Japanese musicians began experimenting with electronic rock in the early 1970s.

Most influentially, the 1970s spawned the electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra, led by Haruomi Hosono.

Particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, there was a significant push to understand the relationships between these climatic parameters and properties of ecosystem energetics because such discoveries would enable the prediction of rates of energy capture and transfer among components within ecosystems.

From here the idea of integrating all components on a single silicon wafer came into existence and which led to development in small-scale integration ( SSI ) in the early 1960s, medium-scale integration ( MSI ) in the late 1960s, and large-scale integration ( LSI ) and VLSI in the 1970s and 1980s with tens of thousands of transistors on a single chip ( later hundreds of thousands, then millions, and now billions )

Also, in the UK up to the mid 1970s, kit cars were sometimes normal production vehicles that were partially assembled as this avoided the imposition of purchase tax as the kits were assessed as components and not vehicles.

Up to the early 1970s, computer components were so expensive and bulky that it was not feasible to include all-purpose communications interface cards in terminals.

With the price of electronic components dropping in the mid 1970s, equipment became more affordable for the average consumer ; Ware and Marsh purchased a Korg 700S synthesizer together and learned how to play it.

In the 1970s miniaturized solid-state components allowed synthesizers to become self-contained, portable instruments, which soon began to be used in live performances.

Radiometers carried on satellites from the 1970s to the 2000s has shown that total solar irradiance varies systematically over the 11-year sunspot cycle, both in total irradiance and in the relative components of the irradiance ( UV Light ratios to Visible Light Ratios ).

In the 1970s, after some consumers began buying phones from other manufacturers anyway, AT & T changed its policy for its Design Line telephone series by selling customers the phone's housing, retaining ownership of the mechanical components — which still required paying AT & T a monthly leasing fee.

Vacuum tubes were the dominant active electronic components in amplifiers manufactured from the 1930s through the early 1970s, and tube amplifiers continue to be preferred by some professional musicians.

Vacuum tubes ( valves ) were by far the dominant active electronic components in most instrument amplifier applications until the 1970s, when semiconductors ( transistors ) started taking over for performance and economic reasons, including heat and weight reduction, and improved reliability.

During the 1970s and 1980s, leading universities in the US, UK, and Europe began drawing these various components together in new, interdisciplinary programs.

Most developed branches of industry are shipbuilding ( In the early 1970s its shipyard Uljanik was building the biggest ships in the world as Berge Adria and others ), metal processing, wood industry, furniture industry, automotive components industry, electric machines and appliances industry, glass, plastic, textile, tobacco industry.

In March 2011 Fender released the Fender Pawn Shop Series guitars ( made in Japan ), which were manufactured with components and the appearance of instruments that might be found in a typical pawn shop in the 1960s or 1970s.

Entering production in the early 1970s, it was cheap to build, being based on many existing components like the engine which was originally developed as a truck engine.

At the brink of the 1970s, TOMOS started preparing for the production of " automatics " designed and constructed by the company itself, as the market was increasingly interested in such type of motorcycles and the components produced abroad were more and more expensive.

This induction and ignition system used technology and components very similar to those employed in Chrysler's US-market Lean Burn emission control systems of the late 1970s.

Zenith kept circuit boards out of their televisions until the Chromacolor line in the early 1970s, and even then only used them with solid state components, mounting the four tubes used in the Chromacolor " 4 tube hybrid " on the steel chassis.

Due to the use of this chassis construction ( and the high quality components ), Zenith televisions and radios of the 1950s to 1970s found today are often still working well, needing little, if any, work to restore them to like-new operating condition.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the company, then led by O ' Keefe, diversified by acquisition into the fields of paper making, instrumentation for scientific, marine, environmental and geophysical users, automotive testing, fans and blowers, frequency control devices and other components including BBD and CCD technology via their Reticon division.

Per Frank Kosinsky, Unicord's Chief Engineer in the late 1970s, as told to Rick Reinckens, a short-term employee, the brand name developed a market reputation as " cheap " because Unicord copied designs from companies like Shure and Electro-Voice instead of doing major original research and development, in spite of Univox amplifiers and univox peripherals using time-proven electronic circuits and quality components.

In the late 1970s, Carvin began to produce all their own instrument components, and also expanded their product lines to include pro audio gear, recording equipment, lighting and other stage and studio equipment.

Founded in 1972 by Robert Jankel, the Panther company enjoyed success throughout the 1970s with retro-styled cars based on the mechanical components of standard production cars from other manufacturers.

Since there were only ten of them, by the 1970s maintenance proved time consuming and difficult as special skills and components were needed to keep the cars in working order.

It was built in the late 1970s from components from Dalnaspidal, a station on the Highland Main Line closed as part of the Beeching Axe.