What is the greatest engineering creation of the modern times?

Question

Of the 20th-21th centuries.

Answer 1

The Apollo space program.

The vehicle designed to escape Earth's orbit, travel to the Moon, orbit the Moon, land on the moon, launch off the surface of the Moon, and return to Earth, and it being a manned mission, too.

Such a feat, we couldn't do it again for another 10-20 years if we started today.

Think of the level of technology in the mid-late 60's compared to now. And with all the advances in technology, I don't think we could get to the moon and back again, no matter how hard we tried.

(Just as an aside, the computer was invented for a singular purpose, to predict the weather, which it does with underwhelming success)

Answer 2

On February 22, 2000, Neil Armstrong spoke on behalf of the National Academy of Engineering and our nation's professional engineering societies to present the top 20 Engineering achievements of the 20th century.

"The winner, the top-rated engineering improvement to the life of Earthlings in this century: electrification.

The majority of the top 20 achievements would not have been possible without electricity. Electrification changed the country's economic development and gave the rural population the same opportunities and amenities as people in the cities.

Electricity provides the power for small appliances in the home, for the computers and control rooms that route power and telecommunications, for the machinery that produces capital goods and consumer products. If anything shines as an example of how engineering has changed the world during the 20th century, it is clearly the power that we use in homes and businesses."

This from the first man to set foot on the moon. (space travel didn't make the top 10)

For the complete list, check out the link below.

Answer 3

I'm an English teacher, not an engineer, but I'd say that the Chunnel underneath the English Channel is an engineering feat unrivaled in modern (I'm qualifying 'modern' as the last 50 years) times. Sure, there have been record breaking skyscrapers, crazy ballparks, but connecting England and France beneath a waterway is mind blowing.

Answer 4

Electricity

Answer 5

You are using it, i.e. the Internet, a free gift from America. The greatest engineering achievement of mankind is landing men on the moon.

Answer 6

I would say the biggest engineering creation is also one of the smallest, that is the transistor. The transistor is the basis of everything around use. Transistors are the building blocks of all electronics. Without them, we would have no
Robotics
Computers
Internet
Wireless
Cell phone
Miniaturization of items (phones, tvs, etc)
etc
etc
etc

Answer 7

Perhaps the adaptation of nuclear fission as a power source (as dangerous as it may be in the long run - see "Chernobyl")?

Answer 8

Jet Planes .

Answer 9

It has to be the thermos. It keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold but how does it know?

Answer 10

The computer.
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