What is the most important invention of the 20th Century?

Question

Is it the gillette safety razor, e=MC^2 equation, instant coffee, the mobile phone, the internet, MS-DOS, Windows.

There is a list of inventions for 1900 to 1999 at http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121599a.htm

Is it the gillette safety razor, e=MC^2 equation, instant coffee, the mobile phone, the internet, MS-DOS, Windows.

There is a list of inventions for 1900 to 1999 at http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121599a.htm.

Also there is a list of Top 10 worst inventions of all time at http://cagematch.dvorak.org/index.php/topic,55.0.html

Answer 1

The transistor: which helped create the microchip, which helped created the computer and many other electronics, which helped create the computer programs, which help created the internet, which helped you bring up this question.

Answer 2

very intresting question..... I think that all of the segnificant inventions revolutionizes their category. For example the helicopter, we are all used to it and we couldn`t imagine life without it. Since the invention of the piloted helicopter, people used it to save lives(hospitals), to destroy lives(army) or just for having fun. Another good example is the computer. Before the invention of the computer, people all over the world struggled with a lot of paperwork and it was very hard for them to comunicate with each other. So my opinion is that no one can decide which invention is the most important because every invention is the most important for the domain it was made for.

Answer 3

Internet

Answer 4

My fathers although it has not been patented or licensed or even copywrited yet due to the fear of death from many branches of governments, and oil co.'s. So all in all any invention that ticks off that many in power and will automatically put you in all of their top secret security files has to be worth it. Not to mention the fact that everyone would save at least $500-$2000 a month if it ever got made.

Answer 5

COMPUTER.
Eventhough there are so many great inventions like atom bomb,moble phone,aeroplane,camera,projector etc.,Computer ranks no 1 because it changed the pace of not only SC IENCE but also our social life through personal computer and internet.

Answer 6

No doubt the airplane. It made the world a lot smaller quickly.

Radio would be a close second, followed by the transistor.

Answer 7

Laloo Prasad Yadav : He is an illiterate genius who has skills to do something out of the box which is not taught in Harvard too

Answer 8

The nations power grid. None of the computers, cell phones, light bulbs, ect., would work without it.

Answer 9

according to donnie darko, "That's easy, Antiseptics. I mean, the whole sanitation thing Joseph Lister... 1895. Before antiseptics
there was no sanitation, especially in
medicine.'

Answer 10

the quantum description of the atom.

I vote for this because pretty much all of our modern technology results from our new understanding of matter and because it seems like all major future technological advancements will stem from an elaboration of this theory.

What technologies am I talking about: nuclear reactions, nanotechnology, biotechnology, computers, new quantum computers, new sources of energy, superconductors, etc etc etc ad infinitium.

Also remember that pretty much all of modern chemistry (and thus all of your modern consumer products and materials and electronics) arose from the quantum description of the atom.