| Roffen | Is the industrial era coming to an end? |
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I have been wondering if the technological development really is as fast-paced as we all are imagining. I did some research and found these truly world-altering inventions. The perspective, I chose was in the lines of "will this invention be remembered in 50 or 100 years from now?"
I compiled a list (rather long) from 1900 to current day. I chose on purpose only rarely include improved versions of already invented stuff.
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1903:
The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
1905:
Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
1907:
Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
1912:
The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole
1913:
Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
1916:
Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
1919:
Short-wave radio invented.
1920:
The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
1921:
Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
1922:
Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
1923:
The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
1924:
The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
1927:
Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
1928:
Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
1930:
The frozen food process patented by Clarence Birdseye.
1932:
Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope.
1934:
Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
1935:
Robert Watson-Watt patented radar.
1939:
Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
1940:
Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
1941:
Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
1943:
Synthetic rubber invented.
1945:
The atomic bomb invented.
1946:
The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
1947:
Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially until 1983.
1948:
Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
1950:
The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
1953:
The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
1954:
Oral contraceptives invented - the pill.
The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
1958:
Gordon Gould invents the laser.
The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1959:
The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
1961:
Valium invented.
1962:
Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
1964:
Acrylic paint invented.
1969:
The ATM invented.
1971:
The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
1973:
Gene splicing invented.
1978:
The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
1979:
Cell phones invented.
1982:
Human growth hormone genetically engineered.
1984:
The CD-ROM invented.
1985:
Windows program invented by Microsoft.
1986:
A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller.
1988:
Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler.
The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart.
1990:
The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
1994:
HIV protease inhibitor invented.
1997:
The gas-powered fuel cell invented.
1998:
Viagra invented.
2001:
AbioCor artificial heart invented by Abiomed - the Abiocor represents groundbreaking medical miniaturization technology. Nuvaring birth control invented by Organon.
2002:
Nano-tex - nanotechnology wearable fabrics invented by Nano-tex LLC.
2003:
Optical Camouflage System invented by Susumu Tachi, Masahiko Inami, and Naoki Kawakami
2004:
SonoPrep invented by bioengineer Robert Langer, is a device that will deliver medication by sound waves rather than injection.
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| Roffen | RE: Is the industrial era coming to an end? |
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I know you will come flaming with additions to the list, and I agree, this list is far from complete, and feel free to add other inventions that you deem world-altering.
New inventions have always (at least since 1900) been regular and truly amazing for their time. Given a boost towards our time and the technological and industrial evolution.
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| Norlander | RE: Is the industrial era coming to an end? |
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Roffen wrote:
I know you will come flaming with additions to the list, and I agree, this list is far from complete, and feel free to add other inventions that you deem world-altering.
Or.... we'll ignore it and it's silliness 
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| Roffen | RE: Is the industrial era coming to an end? |
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I will take that as silent agreement. 
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| Jogvanth | RE: Is the industrial era coming to an end? |
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What exactly is your question?
I read this as a statement, not a question, therefore there is nothing to agree or disagree with.
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No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences.
No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions.
Not even death.
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