What invention has had the biggest impact on the world within the last 200 years. - Historum

huckabee 2012 · February 21st, 2009, 12:02 PM

I think it would be the vaccine mainly because it has saved he lives of millions of people since it's ivention by Louis Pasteur. AIlments like Cholera and Polio have a cure now because of this miracle medicine. It also continues to become more and more advanced. Sometime in the near future there may even be vaccines for AIDs and Malaria.

**Edratman** · February 21st, 2009, 03:41 PM

I'll throw in my opinion: the electrical generator.

Hickdive · February 22nd, 2009, 01:06 AM

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Originally Posted by huckabee 2012

I think it would be the vaccine mainly because it has saved he lives of millions of people since it's ivention by Louis Pasteur. AIlments like Cholera and Polio have a cure now because of this miracle medicine. It also continues to become more and more advanced. Sometime in the near future there may even be vaccines for AIDs and Malaria.

I thought Edward Jenner 'invented' vaccination (although it was known and used prior to that).

Anyway, the steam engine. Ultimately virtually everything in the world we know today relies to some greater or lesser extent on boiling water.

Sammell · February 22nd, 2009, 07:59 AM

I would also have to say the steam engine. Helping to spread people, food, natural resources, and ideas more effectively and not to mention leading to the development of modern transportation.

**avon** · February 22nd, 2009, 08:07 AM

Television. The psychological impact on the human race being able to see - nay, almost 'experience' - almost any part of the world has been immense. Besides this, we now know what is happening at the other side of the planet 24 hours a day. How we see our fellow human-beings affects how we for our own identity.

Sympathy7 · February 22nd, 2009, 02:54 PM

I tried thinking of one more important but I can't.

Steam engine

**avon** · February 22nd, 2009, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sammell

I would also have to say the steam engine. Helping to spread people, food, natural resources, and ideas more effectively and not to mention leading to the development of modern transportation.

But surely these things could move before the arrival of the steam engine!!

huckabee 2012 · February 22nd, 2009, 03:50 PM

The steam engine was an important invention but it surely isn't the most important. There were other ways of powering things. Hydro power. Animal power. And now a days the steam engine isn't in considerable use(but it still is in use). It was just a link to get from ancient methods of power to the modern combustion engine.

huckabee 2012 · February 23rd, 2009, 04:32 PM

The steam engine doesn't have the qualifications for the greatest invention ever.

SoCrazes · March 2nd, 2009, 08:42 AM

Al Gore's internet.