1985 - First SOFT addressed Optical Heat sensor with isolator

Also this year
The first British mobile phone call is made by Emie Wise to Vodafone

1987 - First loop powered sounders

Also this year
The first heart-lung transplant takes place (Baltimore, Maryland).

1988 - First loop powered interfaces

Also this year
Comic Relief hold the first "Red Nose Day" which raises £15 million in the United Kingdom for charity.

1994 - First distibuted voice alarm system

Also this year
The long distance Ulysses space probe passes the Sun's south pole for the first time.

1995 - First sensors with integral sounders

Also this year
Microsoft Launch Windows 95 and Sony Launch Playstation, their first games console

2002 - First loop powered sounder/speech/strobe device – S-Cubed

Also this year
NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe maps the surface of Mars.

2004 - First loop powered sensor/ sounder/ speech/strobe device – S-Quad

Also this year
Queen Elizabeth names the Queen Mary II cruise liner, the largest passenger ship ever built

2005 - First integrated fire and voice alarm system – Vigilon CompactVoice

Also this year
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger becomes the 265th Pope, taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

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