1) Please visit this ranking of the top 20 engineering achievements of the 20th century listed below. Please email Mr. R the following:
2) Several specific paragraphs about how at least 2 of these technologies impacted some aspect of your family's history in the 20th century. How did a technology change livelihoods, locations of where your families lived, what fields someone studied, etc. (Not just "my granddad could now drive to work instead of walk..." but my granddad moved off the farm to work in the oil fields in East Texas as the drilling technology made it possible to explore deeper wells")
3) List what you feel are going to be five new technologies that will be among the top twenty in this new century and why you chose each.