20th Century: Greatest Engineering Achievement
Probably not a good topic for debate. But you'll agree, its an interesting topic!
What, according to you, was the greatest engineering achievement in 20th century & why?
-The Big K-
What, according to you, was the greatest engineering achievement in 20th century & why?
-The Big K-
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crookNothing else comes closer to man landing on moon. I can only try to imagine how much efforts & engineering it required to take man into space.
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LORD_ECGreatest engineering achievement- God sent an engineer on earth on 26th June,1987.
I think that was the biggest achievement for this world to have such an engineer-LORD_EC
Lol -
Rocker
Are your parents engineers? ๐LORD_ECGreatest engineering achievement- God sent an engineer on earth on 26th June,1987.
I think that was the biggest achievement for this world to have such an engineer-LORD_EC
Lol -
Ashraf HZLol @ LORD_EC
I suppose I have to agree with Crook. At first I wanted to say the Sputnik launch by the USSR (Russia) was the greatest, but after weighing that with a human landing on Moon, can't compare in terms of technical achievement ๐
Rather, Sputnik's launch was more the most "significant" engineering achievement in the 20th century. It sparked the space age race, plus, it actually led to the creation of US's NASA!
Back to the landing of Moon.. it combined many different disciplines of engineering with their respective breakthroughs. Mechanical: aeronautics, dynamics, statics, engines, rocket structure, Chemical: rocket fuel, oxygen supply, Material: space suits, rocket shielding/skin, Electrical/Electronics: power supplies, life support systems, computers and most importantly, communications ๐... amongst others. It requires alot of effort!
Can't wait until we land a man on Mars ๐ Maybe some of us Crazy Engineers will take part in it! haha -
Prasad AjinkyaTCP/IP - By Tim Berners - Lee, who is ofer often referred to as Father of the Internet. Last time I heard, he was working in Google, on the Inter-Planetary Internet. Wherein, data-packets will be sent ala satellites into orbits via different planets which would be acting like nodes in a network.
Why does this qualify - well, without this, we would not be surfing on the different sites. Information per say would not have been that free and accessible to everyone. -
MaRoVon Neumann Architecture
- There woudn't be Personal Computers
- No Internet
- No Moon landing
- No CrazyEngineers ๐ -
Kaustubh Katdare
Aye! ๐MaRoVon Neumann Architecture
- There woudn't be Personal Computers
- No CrazyEngineers ๐
Let's say we get first place in 21st Century Greatest Engineering Achievements.
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EGYSHIMOi think it was computer and internet... without it .. there was no development
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Ankita KatdareWhat else can we add to the list here?
Would like to listen the thoughts of new CEans. -
KenJacksonThe Transistor!
Without it, there would only be ENIAC - Wikipedia computers, no PCs, and few of them and governments would own them all.
And radios and TVs would be bigger and less reliable. And there would be no portable MP3 players or even Walkmans, and certainly no smartphones. And we would probably still be winding our wristwatches every morning.
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