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over a year ago
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Firearms. If it wasnt for Joseph whitworth and his rifles we wouldnt have the technology we have today. It was also his innovations with precision engineering that allowed charles babbage to build the difference engine which was the worlds first computer.
And thanks to whitworths innovations in precision engineering during the industrial revolution, it allowed industry standards to be formulated, production to be more efficient, and thus allowed for mass production.
In fact it was whitworths innovations in production lines that allowed henry ford to mass produce the ford model T.
While firearms are a tool for killing, we owe most of our modern way of life to the invention of firearms and the necessity for precision engineering to make firearms better at killing. |
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By *mma29Couple
over a year ago
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Imagine living in a cave freezing during winter and just eating nut and berry's etc. And some genius works out how to start a fire and heat the cave and cook new exciting foods. It would be the best thing ever.
I genuinely don't no how people survived the freezing cold before they had fire.
Going for a walk at night with coat hat and gloves on, I'm still freezing.
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"Imagine living in a cave freezing during winter and just eating nut and berry's etc. And some genius works out how to start a fire and heat the cave and cook new exciting foods. It would be the best thing ever.
I genuinely don't no how people survived the freezing cold before they had fire.
Going for a walk at night with coat hat and gloves on, I'm still freezing.
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Watch Wim Hof and you can see we are naturally designed to survive cold. |
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By *mma29Couple
over a year ago
wirral |
"Imagine living in a cave freezing during winter and just eating nut and berry's etc. And some genius works out how to start a fire and heat the cave and cook new exciting foods. It would be the best thing ever.
I genuinely don't no how people survived the freezing cold before they had fire.
Going for a walk at night with coat hat and gloves on, I'm still freezing.
Watch Wim Hof and you can see we are naturally designed to survive cold."
I'll have a look at that now. Thanks  |
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Interesting answer
Fertiliser is one of best inventions in history. It completely transformed agriculture and our ability to feed the world.
It was invented by a man named Fritz Haber. He figured out how to extract nitrogen from air.
Sadly it was his invention that created a lot of arms for Germany in WW1 as nitrogen is a key component of explosives
And on top of that he is considered the father of chemical warfare for creating many of the chemical weapons seem in WW1
He’s quoted as saying “during peace time a scientist belongs to the world. During war he belongs to his country” |
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"Sliced bread  "
Going from this it has to be the sandwich. Who ever first placed something in between the sliced bread was a genius. The possibilities are endless and could satisfy literally everyone |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Fire, if we had never of invented it we wi=ould still be in cave's lol and possible happier  "
Did we invent it, or discover and harness it?
(Lightning can start a forest fire on a continent that has not a single human) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Mathematics
Did we invent this or just understand it??? Now I’m puzzled "
I suppose more accurately we learnt to understand it and invented the means to express it. |
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"Imagine living in a cave freezing during winter and just eating nut and berry's etc. And some genius works out how to start a fire and heat the cave and cook new exciting foods. It would be the best thing ever.
I genuinely don't no how people survived the freezing cold before they had fire.
Going for a walk at night with coat hat and gloves on, I'm still freezing.
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Its seems likely that the ability to make and control fire was a significant part of hominids being able to migrate from Africa where the cold would have been much less of an issue.
More than just heat, it's use to cook food significantly increased the available calories for early humans thus freeing up time that would otherwise have been needed for foraging and could instead be used to fuel the cultural revolution.
At a wider level our ability to harness energy from external sources to perform useful tasks is perhaps the single greatest conceptual difference between humans and all other animals. We didn't stop with fire to keep warm and cook, we used it to drive our machines. With the exception of wind and water power and lately nuclear, solar and geothermal energy, nearly all of humanities achiements rely on our ability to oxidise certain fuels from steel making to jumbo jets, from campfire cooking to coal fired power plants (and everything that is subsequently done with their electricity). Our control of fire has given us everything we have today.
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The toilet / sanitation/ indoor plumbing.
The romans were quite advanced with this stuff. For almost thousand years after they left, the call of nature basically meant going in a field for most people in the british isles, until the concept & technology picked up again. |
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Toothpaste that converted tooth decay into something that wouldn't decay anymore. Kiss goodbye to tooth decay. Yes it vanished as soon as it was announced  , I wonder why...
Insulin inhalers, bought out by a company that decided they didn't make enough profit so they stopped making them . Watches that reliably detected blood sugar levels without breaking the skin, proven in trials to be as reliable if not more so than standard blood test methods. FDA wouldn't allow them to be mass produced so the inventors had no income
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