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Timeline

132 dated events across 1969–2026 — when devices first made plasma, what they measured, and where regulators moved.

This is when things happened. The changelog is when we recorded them — a different question, and conflating the two would date a 1980s machine to this year. Nothing here is added from outside knowledge to fill a gap: a sparse decade is what our sources support, not what the field did.

2026 1 event

2025 3 events

2024 4 events

2023 4 events

2022 11 events

2020 1 event

2019 3 events

2018 6 events

2017 2 events

2016 10 events

2015 4 events

2014 3 events

2013 2 events

2009 5 events

2006 6 events

2005 2 events

2002 1 event

2000 2 events

1999 2 events

1998 8 events

1997 7 events

1995 5 events

1994 2 events

1992 1 event

1991 4 events

1990 1 event

1988 3 events

1986 1 event

1985 1 event

1984 4 events

1983 3 events

1981 4 events

1978 4 events

1976 4 events

1972 4 events

1969 4 events

Design parameters are excluded: a figure describing what a machine was built to do is not an event in its history. See leaderboards for the same distinction applied to rankings.