History of Nanotechnology
The History of Nanotechnology is that in 1959 physicists Richard Feynman thought that it should be possible to build machines small enough to create objects with atomic precision. However, in the late 1970’s, Eric Drexler began to invent what would later become molecular manufacturing, or Nanotechnology. In 1985 the buckyball was discovered. A buckyball is a spherical fullerene and the first known example of fullerene. In 1987, the first protein was engineered and a year later, in 1988 the first university course began about nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has not been around a long time; it has only been around for 53 years.