History of 3D Printing
Believe it or not, 3D printing is almost 40 years. Yep, this additive manufacturing technology has been around since the 80’s. Here’s a brief tour through the history of 3D printing. 1981–1999: The Infancy of Additive Manufacturing In 1981, Hideo Kodama of Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute published his account of a functional rapid-prototyping system …