It's the decade of Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher; cold war and glasnost; big beats, big hair and fashions that seemed like a good idea at the time. The inventions of the 1980s have us looking inward at our own DNA and outward to the far reaches of space.
Featured inventions:
The Internet
DNA Profiling
The Nicotine Patch
MIR Space Station
Endoscopy Capsule
