What was the most significant military invention/development of the 20th Century?
Radar?
The tank?
Nuclear weapons?
Computer technology?
(Edited 'cos I'm a dumbass!)
The painkillers maybe?
The Birth of Dave Pengilly and the formation in 1992 of Pendraken miniatures.
Does this win me some free figures?
Penicillin and insulin.
If for no other reason, because without them I wold probably be dead a couple of times over.
The transistor by miles and miles! The greatest development in the 21st C will be the memrister. You heard it here first :)
I want to say the internet...but i have to concur.
Its the transistor.
I suspect the transistor also. Or tunnocks caramel wafers.
Quote from: Fenton on 26 April 2010, 10:09:28 PM
The Birth of Dave Pengilly and the formation in 1992 of Pendraken miniatures.
:D Nicely done...
Quote from: Fenton on 26 April 2010, 10:09:28 PM
Does this win me some free figures?
...but no.
Damn it! I've just realised the glaring lack of 'Military' in my question! Right then, I'll try again:
What was the most significant MILITARY invention/development of the 20th Century?
Radar?
The tank?
Nuclear weapons?
Computer technology?
The Point-Blank-Bazooka?
(http://commendatori.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/point-blank-bazooka.jpg)
The more mobile version..
(http://cheezpictureisunrelated.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/wtf-pics-donkey-tank.jpg)
I read if Germany had time to produce more of them they'd have won the war.
Quote from: Leon on 26 April 2010, 11:48:06 PM
:D Nicely done...
...but no.
In that case I shall change my vote to the transistor! :D
Quote from: Leon on 26 April 2010, 11:49:48 PM
What was the most significant MILITARY invention/development of the 20th Century?
Still penicillin
It's interesting how this ones gone. No votes for radar, which saved thousands of lives, and without which we'd probably have lost the war?
And from the two favourites - penicillin and the transistor, which has had the most impact?
- Transistor
- Penicillin
- Nuclear Power
Honorable mention : Radio
Radar.
Quote from: Leon on 27 April 2010, 02:18:12 PM
It's interesting how this ones gone. No votes for radar, which saved thousands of lives, and without which we'd probably have lost the war?
Thats because the War was not lost because the radar, but because the Italians. (they did not won anything since Cannas ;) )
(hope I did not offend to any italian fellow of the forum )
What was the most significant MILITARY invention/development of the 20th Century?
Overall...i'll settle on 2.
Automatic small arms (especially the AK47)
Radio
Of course, there is always the hydrogen bomb and the SSBM - together probably the main reason why we have not had WWIII.
I'd argue the H-bomb isn't really a military development though. More a political one...
It's got to be the PzKpfw xxi
http://tinyurl.com/PzKpfw-xxi
Alan
Quote from: Luddite on 28 April 2010, 07:45:18 PM
More a political one...
Politics by other means, and all that.
Quote from: Shedman on 29 April 2010, 12:51:29 PM
It's got to be the PzKpfw xxi
http://tinyurl.com/PzKpfw-xxi
Alan
:D
The Fembots
No one has mentioned diodes. After all a transistor is merely two diodes back to back ... ???
I am also a fan of the Pz XXI.
No way. The greatest development of the XXth century is the washing machine.
Think about how much time women have now to take care of us...
The Turbojet engine.
Quote from: Jubilation T Cornpone on 06 June 2010, 04:25:13 PM
The Turbojet engine.
More important than the combustion engine?
Quote from: Leon on 06 June 2010, 05:07:08 PM
More important than the combustion engine?
While heavily refined in the 20th century, the internal combustion piston engine is a 19th century invention - diesel's patent was 1894, for example.
What's the greatests 'non-technical' development?
Feminism?
Quote from: lentulus on 06 June 2010, 05:27:33 PM
While heavily refined in the 20th century, the internal combustion piston engine is a 19th century invention - diesel's patent was 1894, for example.
:-[
:D Don't worry about it Leon. The formation of Pendraken miniatures beats both the jet and the combustion engine!!!!
Quote from: Jubilation T Cornpone on 09 June 2010, 07:30:54 PM
:D Don't worry about it Leon. The formation of Pendraken miniatures beats both the jet and the combustion engine!!!!
Woo hoo!
8)
Air conditioning