What are the most important inventions of the 20th century?

[dantheman]

Electric light bulb which brought upon the building of electric generation plants such as Niagara Falls. Lighting of houses then brought all the appliances...A/c included.

Agreed . Can you imagine all of industry still running on steam power ?

 

[Log Island]

Electricity(as we know it) and the lightbulb were 19th century.

 

[Rooda]

Has to be light bulb/electricity. Lead the way for AC, refrigeration, internet, etc.

 

[Vermiform]

The hair Scrunchie.

 

[West]

Two words, remote control.

 

[Mojo Rider]

This

instead of this

Now if someone could do the same for cigarette butts

 

[Emperor]

Deep space exploration (Hubble Telescope et al). With an estimated 150 billion (yes, that's BILLIONS), other galaxy's than the Milky Way (ours), what arrogant assholes we are to think we are it!

 

[LNSvince]

Penicillin

1928 England Sir Alexander Fleming discovered enzyme lysozyme and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum



1640 England John Parkington recommended using mold for treatment in his book on pharmacology
1870 England Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson observed that culture fluid covered with mould did not produce bacteria
1871 England Joseph Lister experimented with the antibacterial action on human tissue on what he called Penicillium glaucium
1875 England John Tyndall explained antibacterial action of the Penicillium fungus to the Royal Society
1877 France Louis Pasteur postulated that bacteria could kill other bacteria (anthrax bacilli)
1897 France Ernest Duchesne healed infected guinea pigs from typhoid using mould (Penicillium glaucium)
1928 England Sir Alexander Fleming discovered enzyme lysozyme and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum
1932 Germany Gerhard Domagk discovered Sulfonamidochrysoidine (Prontosil )

 

[Log Island]

1928 England Sir Alexander Fleming discovered enzyme lysozyme and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum



1640 England John Parkington recommended using mold for treatment in his book on pharmacology
1870 England Sir John Scott Burdon-Sanderson observed that culture fluid covered with mould did not produce bacteria
1871 England Joseph Lister experimented with the antibacterial action on human tissue on what he called Penicillium glaucium
1875 England John Tyndall explained antibacterial action of the Penicillium fungus to the Royal Society
1877 France Louis Pasteur postulated that bacteria could kill other bacteria (anthrax bacilli)
1897 France Ernest Duchesne healed infected guinea pigs from typhoid using mould (Penicillium glaucium)
1928 England Sir Alexander Fleming discovered enzyme lysozyme and the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum
1932 Germany Gerhard Domagk discovered Sulfonamidochrysoidine (Prontosil )

All correct.... But was not commercially available for public use, and lives saved, until the 20th century/1900's.
Without antibiotics, our societies would have never gotten to their current populations, IMHO.

 

[Wolfgang1952]

AR10/AR15 family of weapons

Wolf

 

[Vermiform]

Without antibiotics, our societies would have never gotten to their current populations, IMHO.

And ironically they will probably be our downfall in the end.

 

[Jack]

Trainsistors and vaccum tubes.

 

[general mills]

I'm probably biased but powered flight should be up there. Remember we went from a few hundred feet on a sandy beach to the moon all in the last century. My great grandfather lived to see from the beginning to the moon and more. Powered flight made the world that much smaller of a place, enabling breakfast in NY, business lunch in Paris, dinner back home in NY.

 

[Hitman]

The Pioneer Era of Aviation = The Airplane

Radio

Nuclear Power

Rocket Tech

The Ford Model T, Personal Transport Vehicle...
how's that not been listed?

 

[BlackBalled]

Industrial oil & gas production => good-bye horse and buggy

 

[Vermiform]

Fracking!

 

[FORman]

Deep space exploration (Hubble Telescope et al). With an estimated 150 billion (yes, that's BILLIONS), other galaxy's than the Milky Way (ours), what arrogant assholes we are to think we are it!

I agree.

 

[Hitman]

Deep space exploration (Hubble Telescope et al).
With an estimated 150 billion (yes, that's BILLIONS), other galaxy's than the Milky Way (ours),
what arrogant assholes we are to think we are it!

I agree.

Arrogant *******?

How many planets and stars have been looked at and studied already?
Yet not another life-form....

Why knowing that Earth is a SPECIAL place
are you an arrogant *******?

Earth is special, no denying that. Show me some Human's elsewhere......thought so. = Special!

 

[madwabbit]

#1: internet.
#1a. Amazon


Ties for Second place: electric guitars, turbo charged engines, smart TV/smart phones

The bronze: electric appliances- i like being clean and simultaneously as lazy as possible.


Ooh, digital translators. Thats right rosetta stone, you and my 8th grade french teacher are now equally irrelevant. I can speak into this machine in english and it comes out in any one of a dozen fluent languages, its just amazing.


Imax theaters?


NFL Sunday Ticket with a whole home DVR.


I can't decide. We have it too damn good.

 

[olivs260]

Long-range communication. From telegraph to radio to telephone, now internet. We used to have to be face-to-face with someone or send a letter to be delivered to speak to them. Now we can share knowledge with anyone around the entire globe in a fraction of a second. It completely revolutionizes how society works when you can look up the sum of human knowledge from a phone that you can carry in your pocket.