2006-07-06 14:40:56 · 25 answers · asked by willy j 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Other - Electronics
Television. It changed everything.
2006-07-06 14:42:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite the century, wasn't it? Too difficult to pick the greatest.
1. Electrification
2. Automobile
3. Airplane
4. Water Supply and Distribution
5. Electronics
6. Radio and Television
7. Agricultural Mechanization
8. Computers
9. Telephone
10. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
11. Highways
12. Spacecraft
13. Internet
14. Imaging
15. Household Appliances
16. Health Technologies
17. Petroleum and Petrochemical Technologies
18. Laser and Fiber Optics
19. Nuclear Technologies
20. High-performance Materials
2006-07-06 14:54:01 · answer #2 · answered by love2travel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow.
Finally a really great question.
Actually have to think about this one... ALOT of great inventions in the 20th century...
Air conditioning.
Airplanes.
Einsteins theory of relativity.
Motion Pictures.
Bras.
Zippers.
Band Aids.
Insulin.
Television.
Scotch Tape.
Electron Microscope.
Ballpoint pen.
Teflon.
Atomic Bomb.
Mobile Phones.
Credit Cards.
Compact Discs.
Computers.
World Wide Web.
Just to go agaisnt the grain, I'm going to go with...
Penicillin.
Alexander Flemings discovery of penicillin in 1928 has changed the world of modern medicines by introducing the age of useful antibiotics and his discovery of the penicillin has saved and is still saving millions of people.
It might not be the technology of airplanes or internets, but it's profound effect on our lives (as a society) has been felt and will continue to be felt for decades or even centuries to come...
2006-07-06 15:04:23 · answer #3 · answered by ptm8 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely its problematical to assert precisely, because i imagine a snowball results of pcs to the computer and each and every of the little technologies rolled up in them, and now the web, is truly the most excellent invention. i imagine through some distance we will be impacted, both postively and negatively, through the web more beneficial than some thing else that got here out of the twentieth century, yet of route that doesn't be achieveable without the computer and the chipsets and processors and all that.
2016-11-06 00:30:00 · answer #4 · answered by piazza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Electronic Communication!
2006-07-06 14:43:40 · answer #5 · answered by synapse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Particle Accelerator
2006-07-06 15:16:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Internet.
2006-07-06 14:42:20 · answer #7 · answered by TheAnomaly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Viagra
2006-07-06 15:50:42 · answer #8 · answered by dmb06851 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Popsicles
2006-07-06 14:44:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The transistor. Find a home in America without a single transistor in it!
2006-07-06 14:42:25 · answer #10 · answered by Norm 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋