2006-08-16 06:18:58 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Indoor plumbing!!/shopping mall
2006-08-16 06:29:02 · answer #1 · answered by Mimi Kitty 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It is without doubt, the INTERNAL Combustion Engine. (above someone misidentified this as just a Combustion Engine, but in actuality a Steam Engine is a Combustion Engine (external combustion).
Why the Internal Combustion Engine (as invented by Otto, Daimler & Benz in various projects during the 1870s). Hmmm. When is the last time you tried to live without one? What is everyone's current biggest complaint? Gas prices! It is the Internal Combustion Engine that made Gasoline what it is today and why it is in seemingly greater and greater demand all the time. When the electricity goes out...how does it get fixed? Someone in an internal combustion engine driven truck goes out and fixes it! How did you get your computer? Probably either drove in an internal combustion engine vehicle to the store and bought it or you had it delivered in an internal combustion engine driven vehicle. Sliced bread? (has to be bought or delivered again). Indoor Plumbing (plumbers drive trucks/vans and which would be worse, taking that midnight trek to the outhouse in the winter or making that 20 mile commute to work in the winter without an internal combustion engine vehicle?
Oh yes, someday it may become obsolete and we will all be in electric cars or something, but until that day comes...the internal combustion engine is king of the inventions for the past 200 years.
2006-08-16 09:03:22 · answer #2 · answered by Confucias_Say 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The combustion engine.
Computers are quite nice and that has been an awesome discovery, but with the invention of the combustion engine travel became easier, faster and more efficent than the old railways, etc.
2006-08-16 06:34:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the toilets that flush automatically, and the george foreman grill, the fat just drips right off!! i also like air conditioning, but i think the greatest invention in the last 2 centuries is the lightbulb, and the greatest discovery would be Einstien's theory of relativity
the guy who said electricity is off, that was more than 200 years ago chief.
2006-08-16 06:24:46 · answer #4 · answered by e fitz 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The steam engine. The steam engine made the Industrial Revolution possible. The Industrial Revolution is the most significant non-religious occurrence in human history. Without the Industrial Revolution, we would not have electricity, computers, internet, etc.
2006-08-16 06:56:35 · answer #5 · answered by atwil 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Computers, without a doubt.
The difference computers have made is just incredible. They are behind just about everything we do, from stopping at a red light, to storing and disseminating information.
Our lives have changed dramatically due to the speed of information now and computers are totally responsible for this.
2006-08-16 06:23:10 · answer #6 · answered by JaneB 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would have to say the Atomic Bomb. It changed weapons forever. It horrifies nations, threatens agitators and remains as a chill in our spines as a potential weapon of terrorists.
Nuclear weapons led to peacful institutions such as nuclear power plants and research into the subatomic particles.
2006-08-16 07:32:40 · answer #7 · answered by Tim 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have to cast my vote in favour of "Computers".....as far as past 200 years are concerned.....but all time invention is "Printing"
2006-08-16 06:57:52 · answer #8 · answered by indraraj22 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Internet!
2006-08-16 06:23:09 · answer #9 · answered by John K 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
water purifier or water filtering devices and all those process to make our water healthy enough to drink, shower, cook with.
Other high tech inventions are great but we shoud focus on the immediate needs of the human which is water and food.
2006-08-16 06:26:26 · answer #10 · answered by curious 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Electricity
2006-08-16 06:22:38 · answer #11 · answered by Matt Beezy 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋