THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC

INVENTION OF THE 20TH

CENTURY
 20TH CENTURY INVENTIONS
WERE HUGELY INFLUENCED
BY MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY
AND RESOURCES, ENABLING THE INVENTIONS OF KEY ITEMS
AND DEVICES WHICH
CHANGED THE WAY
WE LIVE TODAY.
  THE AIRPLANE
Invented in 1903 by Wilbur and
Orville Wright, the brothers brought
to life a concept that was reserved
for mythological stories.

However,  the airplane was not taken

seriously until Charles Lindberg made his
solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

It revolutionized countless industries beyond just the realms of transportation. The effects of the airplane
can be felt in satellite and communication, business and commerce just to name a few.
 THE TELEVISION 
Created in 1926 by John Logie
Baird , the television was one of the
first inventions to affect the lives of
masses all over the world, and to this
day still remains the most popular
ways of getting information.

Broadcasting both news and entertainment,

the television created entirely new industries impacting culture
to such an extent
that it influenced the way people think about important social
issues such as race, gender, and class.
 THE COMPUTER
We could argue that the
first computer was the abacus or
its descendant, the slide
rule, invented by William
Oughtred in 1622.

The first 
computer resembling today's
modern machines was the
Analytical Engine, a device
conceived and designed by
British mathematician Charles The computer itself was born out of the minds
Babbage between 1833 and of the many scientists, researchers, and
1871. mathematicians, with the first programmable
computer, the Z1, being created between
1936-1938. 
 THE RADIO
Occasionally underappreciated, the radio was one of
the first major inventions of the 20th century.

Invented in conjunction with many different scientists including

Nikola Tesla, Alexander Popov
and Guglielmo Marconi,
the radio became the most used forms of communications The radio in the early 20th century served as a social bonding
in the world. tool, a place of news, and education tool, and for emergency
broadcasts, in short, providing an entirely new way for people
to communicate and interact. 
 THE AUTOMOBILE 
The automobile  was under development in Europe
in the 19th century, however, the vehicle did not
come into fruition until the early 20th century. Once
it did arrive, no more horse and buggies.

Popularized by Henry Ford's Model T in 1908, the automobile

gave the average person a bigger degree of mobility and
personal freedom while also spawning a revolution in the market
place.

Goods could now be transported much more easily as well quickly, the seeds of the traveling industry were planted,
people could move out of the city and live in the suburbs,
all of this thanks to the automobile.  
 NUCLEAR POWER
Utilizing the energy released by splitting the atoms of certain
elements, the harnessing of nuclear power would go on to
change the world in more ways than one.
First developed in the 1940s as a means to produce bombs, it
was not until the 1950s that the research of nuclear energy
turned peaceful. 

Today nuclear energy provides, about 11% of the

world’s electricity from about 450 power reactors
 making it the world's second-largest source of low-
carbon power.

Right now, 50 countries use nuclear energy research industries ranging from the medical field to the
industrial field.  
 INTERNET
Aside from creating hilarious memes, streaming cat videos, and
trolling online,
the internet has affected lifestyles across the globe since the first
internet connections were laid in the late 1950s.

Education, commerce, science, art, music, communication,

modern media,
and travel have all been shaped by the internet in some shape or
form and
that's not even the half of it. 

The internet has even been used as a tool to make positive and negative social, economic, and political changes that affect
billions of people a day. 
 ANTIBIOTICS
Antibiotics changed modern
medicine forever. Considered by
many as one of the man's
greatest creations, outsmarting
bacteria.

Antibiotics like penicillin and a host of others helped drastically

reduce the mortality and even helped people live longer
healthier lives.    Before the Scottish researcher, Sir Alexander Fleming's
discovery of penicillin, death by bacteria was fairly common to
the extent that even the smaller little bug could be fatal.
  
In fact, penicillin helped save the lives of millions of soldiers in
World War II helping those who got sick from war or suffered
life threating injuries.
Imagine where you would be if you did not have the antibiotics
at your disposal next time you were sick.