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Seventies Firsts

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A few of the words

CONCORDE
Concorde entered passenger service in January 1976, whisking travellers between London and New York in under three and a half hours, roughly half the time of a conventional jet.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
WALKMAN
Sony's Walkman landed in shops in July 1979, and the idea of carrying your own personal soundtrack wherever you went felt almost like science fiction to those who first slipped on the headphones.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BARCODE
The very first retail barcode was scanned on a pack of Wrigley's chewing gum in Troy, Ohio on 26 June 1974, a quiet moment that rewired global commerce.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SKYLAB
Launched in 1973, Skylab was America's first space station, and its astronauts spent months conducting experiments that laid the groundwork for every crewed mission that followed.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Seventies Firsts word search, free to play and print, built around the decade that gave us the VCR, the microprocessor, and Title IX all before 1980.

About Seventies Firsts

The 1970s crackled with invention. Families gathered around bulky televisions to watch the first home video recordings, while scientists quietly sent the earliest electronic messages down telephone lines. On the high street, a simple striped pattern on a tin of beans was quietly revolutionising shopping, the barcode had arrived, and nothing would ever be quite the same again.

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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