Three Major Accomplishments

Since the dawn of man there have been many breakthroughs, intentional and unintentional that have changed the course of human history. These accomplishments have allowed our species to dominate the world around us and go to places we never could before and do things that were once thought to be impossible. In this paper I will look at three accomplishments that I believe have had an impact not only in the scientific community, but have truly changed the world. These three accomplishments are synthetic fertilizer, the harnessing of penicillin mold cultures in to the first antibiotics, and perhaps the most significant in terms of being world-changing, the development of the Internet.

Synthetic Fertilizer:

This accomplishment stems from the

It is estimated that the number of humans that can be fed per hectare of farmable land has increased from 1.9 to 4.3 persons between 1908 and 2008. This increase was mainly possible because of Haber–Bosch nitrogen (Erisman). This is evident in the rapid population growth seen in the 20th century. To get a scale of how important synthetic fertilizer is to our world’s food supply, The International Fertilizer Industry Association reports that over 100 million metric tons of nitrogen are produced by the Haber-Bosch Process each year and used on crops, mostly to the cereal grains like rice, wheat and corn that form the cornerstone of human diets. It is estimated that more than 2 billion people, are fed with food grown using fertilizer made from the Haber-Bosch

It started off as a somewhat organized communications technology mostly used by the scientific community. As the number of people using this technology grew, the network had to expand its infrastructure and develop a model of connectivity that could accommodate the growing demand. In the mid-1980’s the Internet shifted from public to private management and went through a number of important changes like the emergence private access using public telecommunications. In1995, a company called Netscape developed a widely used browser using the World Wide Web that gave the public increased and easier access to the Internet. This technology revolutionized not only the way computers are used, but the very way people communicate and interact with the world.

The development of the Internet has changed the world in just about every way imaginable. People no longer need to go to a library to do research because most of the known information of mankind can be found using Google. Once successful companies like Blockbuster have gone out of business because instead of going in to a store to rent a single movie, it is now cheaper an easier to stream any movie in the world through the Internet. Even the way we interact with each other has changed with the advent of social networking websites like