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Early examples of 3D printing occurred in the 1980s, though the printers then were large, expensive and highly limited in what they could produce.
- SLA was developed and patented by Dr. Carl Deckard at the University of Texas at Austin in the mid-1980s, under sponsorship of DARPA. A similar process was patented without being commercialized by R. F. Housholder in 1979.
- The term "3D printing" was coined at MIT in 1995 when then graduate students Jim Bredt and Tim Anderson modified an inkjet printer to extrude a binding solution onto a bed of powder, rather than ink onto paper. The ensuing patent led to the creation of modern 3D printing companies Z Corporation (founded by Bredt and Anderson) and ExOne.
- Stereolithography was patented in 1987 by Chuck Hull.
- fused deposition modelling was developed by S. Scott Crump in the late 1980s and was commercialized in 1990.
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