5 most significant inventions in the last 200 years

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What are your 5 most significant inventions of the last 200 years?
Mine are:
1. electricity.
2. internal combustion engines.
3. computers.
4. vaccines.
5. smokeless powder.
Not necessarily in that order.
 
Organ transplants
Transistors
GPS
Rocket motors
Jet/Turbofan engines
MIcrowave ovens
Cataract surgery and replacement lenses
Hearing aids
Cell phones
Automatic transmissions
 
Internal combustion engine
Tractors, combines, etc…
Haber Bosch process
Roundup and Roundup Ready corn
High protein wheat

I grew up on a farm.
 
Newboomer said:
What are your 5 most significant inventions of the last 200 years?
Mine are:
1. electricity.
2. internal combustion engines.
3. computers.
4. vaccines.
5. smokeless powder.
Not necessarily in that order.
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4 - what are you, some liberal, vaccine loving, commie?!

You have a good list, sitting here, actually thinking about your question, one realizes the ridiculous amount or progress made in the 20/21st centuries.

1. Electricity has made practically every modern amenity possible
2. Jet propulsion - From travel, to war, to space exploration, to power generation.
3. The Internet - As much as I hate to see it, look how it dictates most aspects of our daily life
4. Vaccines have, and continue to save millions every year. It makes me ashamed to live in a country that has lost measles status do to people who either get their news from Facebook, or believe that God and snake oils will keep their children safe.
5. Refrigeration - what population could the world feed without supply chains being able to prevent food from rapidly spoiling
 
At the turn of the last century, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in Europe and the US. One in seven people died from it. Polio killed 3,000 Americans in 1952 alone. Smallpox killed 300,000 worldwide in the 20th century. Today, each of these diseases is gone or extremely uncommon, thanks to effective vaccines. I’m baffled by people who think vaccines are the imminent threat to health rather than the diseases they cure.
 
WAB said:
Internal combustion engine
Tractors, combines, etc…
Haber Bosch process
Roundup and Roundup Ready corn
High protein wheat

I grew up on a farm.
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The plow that John Deere invented for that Kansas mud.
 
Doug3006 said:
At the turn of the last century, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in Europe and the US. One in seven people died from it. Polio killed 3,000 Americans in 1952 alone. Smallpox killed 300,000 worldwide in the 20th century. Today, each of these diseases is gone or extremely uncommon, thanks to effective vaccines. I’m baffled by people who think vaccines are the imminent threat to health rather than the diseases they cure.
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But will run around around smoking, drinking a giant coke while eating McDonald’s simultaneously, without a second thought
 
I’d have to think about the other 4. For me, I hate hot weather, so air conditioning is my number 1 best invention.

None of my grandparents ever had AC in their houses. I remember my grandmother telling me AC, was going to ruin me. Lol.

I work outside all year round, but in the summertime, as soon as I get home, I’m done! I’m staying in the AC as long as possible.
 
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