top inventions of last two hundred years: - washing machine - penicillin - lasher process - maybe electricity/ the internet / engines ?
Snowden St.This post and the replies are good hearted laments and commiserations. BUT: if I may offer a small ode of praise here— this is why the washing machine is one of the 4 or 5 greatest technologies of the past millennia, up there with lenscrafting, or the verge escapement.