The 10 Most Important Technology in the Last 100 Years

By ashpash

  • Modern Air Conditioner

    Modern Air Conditioner
    Air conditioning (or rather the sort of basic version of it) had been long invented before but it became commercially available in homes in 1932.

  • Assembly Line

    Assembly Line
    Developed by the Ford Motor Company for the purpose of building cars, now widely used in factories everywhere in order to make production more efficiently.

  • Commercial Airplane Use

    Commercial Airplane Use
    Flight was something that people always wanted to acheive and flying commercially became possible in this year.

  • Commercial Sale of Antibiotics

    Commercial Sale of Antibiotics
    The peak of modern medicine saved many lives with the supposed "miracle" drug.

  • Ballpoint Pen

    Ballpoint Pen
    Something that people use every day to write with. Still important even to this day.

  • Internet

    Internet
    First developed by the Department of Defense would later become commercially availsble to the public snd change the way our world would communicate.

  • First Home Smoke Detector

    First Home Smoke Detector
    Smoke detectors had been invented prior but this one was the type that could be put into homes.

  • First Handheld Calculator

    First Handheld Calculator
    Made computation a whole lot easier.

  • First Consumer Computer

    First Consumer Computer
    Computers had once again been invented prior but once again, became commercially available in homes in the 70's.

  • DNA Fingerprinting

    DNA Fingerprinting
    Revolutionized the way that crimes were solved.