What are the most important inventions of the 20th Century

  • Car

    Car
    Benz & Co by the hand of its founder Karl Benz presented “the motorwagen”, the first vehicle powered by a gasoline engine that only had three wheels.
  • Submarine

    Submarine
    El Peral was a prototype submarine with electric propulsion made by the Spanish Navy according to a project by Isaac Peral
  • Plane

    Plane
    The first proper plane was created by Clément Ader, on October 9, 1890 he managed to take off and fly 50 m with his Éole
  • Radio

    Radio
    Italian physicist Guillermo Marconi invented radio, connecting Europe and America for the first time by means of a radiotelegraph signal
  • Television

    Television
    The first time something appeared on a television screen was on January 26, 1926. The protagonist was the puppet of an inventor, John Logie Baird
  • Rocketry

    Rocketry
    Robert Goddard was an American physicist who is credited with creating the first liquid-fueled rocket. It was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.
  • Antibiotics

    Antibiotics
    The History of Antibiotics is considered to actually begin in 1928 when a British scientist, Alexander Fleming, accidentally discovered penicillin. Fleming noticed that a mold contaminating one of his
    culture dishes had destroyed the bacteria grown in it.
  • Nuclear power

    Nuclear power
    The Óbninsk nuclear power plant (Kaluga Oblast, Russia) came into operation on June 26, 1954, becoming the first in history. It had a uranium and graphite reactor. It generated 5 MW with only 17% thermal efficiency.
  • Internet

    In the middle of the cold war, the United States created an exclusively military network, with the aim that, in the hypothetical case of a Russian attack, military information could be accessed from anywhere in the country. This network was called the ARPANET.
  • The personal computer

    The personal computer
    Kenbak-1. The Kenbak-1 is considered by the Computer History Museum as the world's first personal computer. It was designed and invented by John Blankenbaker of Kenbak Corporation in 1970.