Canoe's from 10,000 years ago are remarkably similar to what we use today as well. The Pesse canoe was a pine canoe that was found in the Netherlands, and dated to around 8000 BC -- and a modern recreation from a few years ago was tested and found to be just as seaworthy as a normal modern canoe. Like many things, the main differences between then and now is the material used.
The SAIL is one of the overlooked inventions that has changed little over the centuries. It was the first invention to free us from the limits of muscle power.
Systems of sails and rigging have changed a lot over the past few hundred years and those advancements have heavily increased the range of ships and their speed allowing for big and faster ships to be constructed that can go father so I wouldn’t say it’s changed very little.
If you bring together the thumb, forefinger and middle finger tips and put some wet clay there then bring together those fingers from the other hand and bring them together with a 60deg twist they will squish the clay into a rough six sided solid you can finesse into a cube with a few dabs. Ancient humans may have made clay cubes for centuries before the idea of adding numbers came about.
A cool idea but it doesn’t add up. The fact animals can understand numbers albeit in a different way shows that the ability to count is evolutionarily advantageous. Humans more likely just have traits that allow us to go much further with math and exchanging knowledge. Language is a crazy powerful tool and it is something that doesn’t get anywhere near enough credit
@@isaacdayton4962 uhh they were talking about adding numbers to clay squares to make dice, not about when humans learned about numbers in general. Just bc they used numbers doesn't mean they had numbers on dice.
Tossing bones and stones for sure after drinking some rotted fruit that is fermenting to get drunk, or eating shroons. This video is a cop out. Paper clips... Spoons? How else would you design a spoon Simon. I haven't finished the video... What is next. Nails? Cups? Plates and bowls?
The bag or basket was probably just as important an invention as the wheel. It allowed gatherers to collect more food than they could eat at the site and allowed hunters and fishers to bring home butchered meat from a kill instead of the whole carcas and more fish than can be carried by hand. Other than materials, the only improvement to bags or pouches are handles and closures
It would take me about a day to get tired of putting stuff in my skirt (all little girls have used their skirts as bags, so if bags weren't around before clothing they are invented like - the day after).
If I were a time traveler, I could never go past the 1600's because there were no pockets before then -- and being a cargo-pants aficionado, I have no idea what I would do without them haha! :P
I splice all the dock lines for the fleet of ships I work for. I've always loved the fact that outside of material, if a sailor from who knows how long ago saw my splices, he'd recognize them. And hopefully approve.
One very important tool, one of the oldest and arguably most important is the needle. It is surprising how since the paleolythic people had needles very thin with the hole like where we put for dexterity. A simple and yet super efficient design. Super important for manufacturing clothes.
I think of a lot of modern typing like this, how it might be difficult to decipher if the rules of language remain comprehensible and yet we're typing with no punctuation or possession in text.
Ancient roman: "This is madness! Such insolence can't go unpunished!" Ancient roman: "I pull out my sword" Ancient Dungeon Master: "Make a surprise attack and roll initiative." Ancient roman: "I critically hit. Should I double my sword damage? ... ah, crap, how many centuries do we need to wait for game rules appendices to be invented?"
The introduction of brooms made with sorghum was a bigger deal than mentioned, partially because they were massively superior to prior brooms, which were pretty challenging to use efficiently. The story behind the sorghum broom is pretty funny, too. A farmer in Massachusetts named Levi Dickenson, who grew sorghum, had the thought to use some of it to make a broom as a gift for his wife. She liked it so much she told all her friends about it, who all wanted one. Dickenson ended up inventing one of the first mechanized processes for broom making. Later on the Shakers came up with the process for making the modern flat broom. The Northeast U.S. dominated broom manufacturing well into the 20th century.
The Schrader Valve is another that they got right first try. We've made smaller versions, but they all work identically. They've been keeping air in tires for 180 years with no reasons to change.
Animals invented the broom because they didn’t really want to hang around dirty humans so they subliminally used their tail to sweep some dirt while a human watched and then finally after probably a couple thousand years or more someone caught on and started sweeping their caves. Animals became happier or at least happy enough that they’d enter the cave if it was swept. Before that they just layed at the mouth of caves and constantly moved their tails in a sweeping motion. For thousands of years…..
In the Victorian Era, dice became associated with gambling, so a lot of board-games invented then used spinners instead. The spinners were numbered 1 - 6, so there was no fundamental difference.
I now know why a street in my home town is Ropewalk. It had never occurred to me to wonder why. I didn't even think it was related to manufacturing. I assumed it was because of the nearby canal & a different term for a tow-path.
Think about Ancient Rome. A big reason why they had a modern and efficient society were ropes, wheels, gears and similar. They probably had rope factories that didn’t survive because they used ropes for everything, especially their naval fleet.
As a Norwegian-American, I had always been told that the modern paperclip was invented in Norway. During WWII, resistance fighters in occupied Norway would wear a paperclip on their clothing, as a means of identifying other resistance members, but in a way that, if questioned, could be explained away as just having a handy paperclip for when you need one. The symbol was special to Norwegians, because that's where they were invented. That was the history story I have often heard. Now I gotta go do some extra research, to see if the stories I've been told are true, or not. I usually tryst this channel to have good research, but now I don't know who to trust...
Johan Vaaler was born on March 15, 1866, in Aurskog-Holand which is located in Akershus, Norway. He is usually credited with inventing the modern bent-wire style of paper clip. His original design apparently differed somewhat from the ubiquitous "gem" style we think of today, though I was unable to find out in what way. He invented it some few years before first applying for an American patent in 1901; the original invention may have been as early as five years before, more or less? Reports in the articles I found vary. It was a British inventor, working for the Gem company, that patented a machine for the making of bent-wire paperclips, in the double-oval style we're familiar with. That patent was for the machine; the paperclip it was designed to mass-produce already existed at that time.
Backgammon (among Chess and Go) is one of the 3 oldest and most popular games ever that is still widely played today. Backgammon is the only one among these 3 that uses dice and all 3 games didn't changed much throughout history.
The wheel has been improved. The bicycle wheel works by tension, not compression. The spokes hold the axle up to the top of the wheel and the weight is transferred around the rim to the ground. This allows the spokes to much lighter and the wheel easier to turn.
The safety pamphlet/video/standard outline of safety demonstrations on a passenger aircraft. I swear this should qualify… I remember being on a plane when I was 5 and again last year … nothing has changed (I’m going on 37)
Keep on doing what you do Mr Whistler, you have bought me a lot of interest and entertainment. I love this stuff as I have to sell/market/create stuff all the time. It is so nice, just to know in such an easy wonderful format. Are you still doing 'Geo politic'? You forgot everyone's favourite little MS Office - assistant 'Clippy'.:) Funny how things in the digital space keep on failing and disappearing faster than those in the reality. :)
If we’re talking about simple tools, there’s the Axe. Although the materials have changed the basic design has remained unchanged for 10s of thousands of years. Sewing needles, fishhooks, cooking pots… any one of those things would be easily recognizable to someone living 5000 years ago, new materials, same design.
Quote: ...rope is still just a bunch of strands twisted together to make something stronger than the individual pieces." ... sounds like a metaphor for a functioning civilisation.
In Shang Dynasty China, spoons were made of bone. Early bronze spoons in China were designed with a sharp point, and may have also been used as cutlery. The spoons of the Greeks and Romans were chiefly made of bronze and silver and the handel usually takes form of a spike or pointed stem. Medieval spoons for domestic use were commonly made of cow horn or wood, but brass, pewter, and latten spoons appear to have been common in about the 15th century.
I get that they're saying the oldest spoons are found in 1,000bc in ancient egypt, but I would bet that they're as old as basically any wooden tools and possibly even before the more advanced Acheulean stone tool technology type. It's literally the first thing that you most people learn to carve when learning hand wood carving after doing a pointed stick. They can be easily made with stone tools, and not even knapped and advanced kinds, as even a piece of random piece of granite can be used as a grinding/sanding stone, and the bowl part can be burnt to shape using a coal from a fire or just twisting a rough stone into it like a drill/bore. I would agree it would be the oldest semi standardised eating utensil, and I would think it would have been made even before homo sapiens is first accepted to have evolved, and I wouldn't be surprised if homo erectus was already making them from bone and wood.
I hear you about the handle making it a 'real' spoon in some sense. But if you were camping and ate soup with shell, people would say you used the shell as a spoon.
Prehistoric "batons" with holes in them have been found. Coincidentally, I just viewed a TH-cam channel about it this morning. They believe they used these to make rope, quite easily and quickly.
Tension spokes are a "new" invention for wheels, making a non-circular rim fully adjustable through internal tension into a circular shape. Before these, spoke wheels used the external force of use to hold the wheel together.
And the tire (or tyre) is almost as old as the wheel itself - first as a bentwood circle keeping the solid wheel from wearing end grain faster and going out of round, then metal tires first bent around the wheel, and later mounted hot to shrink onto the wheel, then various resilient materials to cushion the wheel, and finally the pneumatic tire. So tires are an evolutionary advance on the wheel, not an innovation in their own right.
I would argue about the wheel. While rollers are known all over the history of civilization, axel bearing is what makes up a wheel. A proper wheel, that converts all of the sliding friction into rolling friction was invented quite recently.
While sites dating back 35+45,000 years have shown the ability of. Boring holes to create beads, the one invention that was probably more important is the eyed needle. This simple creation into a sharp pointed sliver of something like bone, or plant thorns, permitted the attachment of animal skins together or to be attached ti any type of framework.
This was GREAT! And, oddly enough, I just wrote out the process of making simple two-ply rope from green grass for a piece of fiction I'm working on not three days ago. So yeah, I really loved that part. :) It's interesting-- I went on a guided hike out here in the U.S.'s Southwest a few months ago to see a well-documented mammoth kill location (the Murray Springs Clovis Site), and there was a display laid out by one of the local archaeologists with actual artifacts as well as replicas, One of them was a replica of an antler-piece with two holes in it. They've always considered it a shaft-straightener; now they're beginning to wonder if it was used to make rope. Or maybe it was used for both tasks, who knows?
Tension spokes are a relatively modern upgrade to the wheel. Only with the invention of carbon fiber has a conventional wheel retaken the place of a tension spoke design on the most advanced bicycles. Tension spoked wheels are still the best design available for off road motorcycle wheels as they are flexible, and resist damage better than other designs of similar weight.
Interesting - but I have to disagree on the comment about the spoke being the last development of the wheel. Surely the invention of the wire spoke in 1802 (GF Bauer) would be a notable change. Totally different to a standard cart-wheel type spoke, relying not on the resistance to compression, but a wire in tension is a fundamental change in the mechanics of the wheel making it lighter and more comfortable
Only since the Romans invaded these British shores. Before that circular houses predominated because they needed no engineering expertise to set out. A peg and a bit of string was sufficient.
Canoe's from 10,000 years ago are remarkably similar to what we use today as well. The Pesse canoe was a pine canoe that was found in the Netherlands, and dated to around 8000 BC -- and a modern recreation from a few years ago was tested and found to be just as seaworthy as a normal modern canoe. Like many things, the main differences between then and now is the material used.
That's awesome to know. Thank you.
The SAIL is one of the overlooked inventions that has changed little over the centuries. It was the first invention to free us from the limits of muscle power.
A sail is just a complicated rope.
Systems of sails and rigging have changed a lot over the past few hundred years and those advancements have heavily increased the range of ships and their speed allowing for big and faster ships to be constructed that can go father so I wouldn’t say it’s changed very little.
@@josephthespaceman8485the exact same can be said about the wheel, yet it was in the vid. how do u explain that?
Never said that I agreed with the video.
@@josephthespaceman8485 touche
0:50 - Chapter 1 - Paperclips
2:50 - Chapter 2 - Spoons
4:55 - Chapter 3 - Dice
7:20 - Chapter 4 - Brooms
9:20 - Chapter 5 - Wheels
11:10 - Chapter 6 - Rope
Thanks for the spoilers.
@@nem447 he doesn't even mention the spork !!!
Clippy finally gets the respect he deserves
If you bring together the thumb, forefinger and middle finger tips and put some wet clay there then bring together those fingers from the other hand and bring them together with a 60deg twist they will squish the clay into a rough six sided solid you can finesse into a cube with a few dabs. Ancient humans may have made clay cubes for centuries before the idea of adding numbers came about.
A cool idea but it doesn’t add up. The fact animals can understand numbers albeit in a different way shows that the ability to count is evolutionarily advantageous. Humans more likely just have traits that allow us to go much further with math and exchanging knowledge. Language is a crazy powerful tool and it is something that doesn’t get anywhere near enough credit
@@isaacdayton4962 uhh they were talking about adding numbers to clay squares to make dice, not about when humans learned about numbers in general. Just bc they used numbers doesn't mean they had numbers on dice.
@@isaacdayton4962nice non sequitur response pal
People been losing valuables to dice games since before recorded history. 😂
Tossing bones and stones for sure after drinking some rotted fruit that is fermenting to get drunk, or eating shroons.
This video is a cop out. Paper clips... Spoons?
How else would you design a spoon Simon. I haven't finished the video... What is next. Nails? Cups? Plates and bowls?
@@dianapennepacker6854You said it is a cop out, but managed to get none of the next ones right. Honestly, that's mildly sad.
The bag or basket was probably just as important an invention as the wheel. It allowed gatherers to collect more food than they could eat at the site and allowed hunters and fishers to bring home butchered meat from a kill instead of the whole carcas and more fish than can be carried by hand. Other than materials, the only improvement to bags or pouches are handles and closures
It would take me about a day to get tired of putting stuff in my skirt (all little girls have used their skirts as bags, so if bags weren't around before clothing they are invented like - the day after).
If I were a time traveler, I could never go past the 1600's because there were no pockets before then -- and being a cargo-pants aficionado, I have no idea what I would do without them haha! :P
@@Loralanthalas the deer skin that would be used for clothing can just as well be sewn together to make a bag for carrying things or boiling water.
Im sure they would have still taken the whole caracas. Organs, hide, bones all have their use.
@@olencone4005 Strap on a bunch of pouches and satchels.
I splice all the dock lines for the fleet of ships I work for. I've always loved the fact that outside of material, if a sailor from who knows how long ago saw my splices, he'd recognize them. And hopefully approve.
One very important tool, one of the oldest and arguably most important is the needle. It is surprising how since the paleolythic people had needles very thin with the hole like where we put for dexterity.
A simple and yet super efficient design. Super important for manufacturing clothes.
The poor axle never gets the credit it deserves.
Axle :-)
Here here
@lotuselansteve Woopsie daisy 😁
You know the wheel and axle are both part of the same simple machine right like did you even bother watching the video 😂
@realname2490 oh look a troll! Do you know how to use punctuation? Did you pay any attention in elementary school?
That dice history is wild, not that they existed, but that they are practically identical in every way other than material.
Yeah I thought it was cool that some people back then even had the number lay out we use today for optimal distribution of averages
"...Which wouldn't be that different from DnD anyway." Shots fired!
Roll for initiative.
⚔️
They've designed the wheel just once and we've just been rolling with that ever since
You showed a Paperclip, but all I saw was an Optical Drive Manual Eject Tool.
All i saw was Cortana's Grandad.....
roach clip
One minor but sort of major design change to the spoked wheel is that the hub actually hangs on the spokes now rather than sits on the spokes.
2000 years from now, somebody will dig up a Nokia 3330, under 20 tonnes of rocks.
And it'll still have 50% battery!
I think of a lot of modern typing like this, how it might be difficult to decipher if the rules of language remain comprehensible and yet we're typing with no punctuation or possession in text.
It won't be mine; mine died after 4 hours.
@@ferociousgumby Hello. Our records show that your insurance is about to expire....
Made in Finland they say.
@@Yupppi And they'll think it's another name for Atlantis.
lol! I just saw some Roman dice for sale and thought “fake, no way they look just like the ones I use today” 😂
It’s so strange because Roman artifacts are common enough that you can pick up a legally sold gold or silver coin for only 10 quid
I wonder if historians have found loaded dice and how many.
@@mariawhite7337 Some of the earliest found, date back to ruined Pompeii
@@mariawhite7337 Actually, yes! Loaded dice were found in Pompeii.
They are probably still fake though.
That joke about divinination being equatable to Dungeons and Dragons was spot on. I had a great laugh
"Way older than think" 🤔
Hell YEAH we invented dice before thinking, we're based
@@monterraythehomeless swing n miss 😂
Me think newer, Gronk think older. Gronk right, way older than think ever been thinked.
@@deadgamer21 Enjoyed your reply.
I'm hoping he'll try to explain/justify.
*Reply to:* _"swing n miss"_
Me think way old too.
00:43 I love the exciting music, followed by an image of a paperclip.
I still remember when the thumbnail said, "Way Older Than Think" lmao
Future archeologists will find a paperclip layer in the geological record no doubt
For certain!
"Clearly a religious artifact used in rituals" - future archeologists. Also coffee shops will be deemed religious worship centers
'cause Prehistoric Venus Figurine got back.
Ancient roman: "This is madness! Such insolence can't go unpunished!"
Ancient roman: "I pull out my sword"
Ancient Dungeon Master: "Make a surprise attack and roll initiative."
Ancient roman: "I critically hit. Should I double my sword damage? ... ah, crap, how many centuries do we need to wait for game rules appendices to be invented?"
Given there were dice in Egypt, it’d be hilarious if the Egyptians of Roman time played with the theme of ANCIENT EGYPT
NERD! .....
(Which edition are we using exactly?) 🤓
This reads like any early SNL sketch and I love it
I'm surprised not so much by the dice themselves, but by the number/dot placement
If you see the videos of the Royal Game of Ur, you'll see that the Sumerians used tetrahedral dice, though they surely had other types as well.
The introduction of brooms made with sorghum was a bigger deal than mentioned, partially because they were massively superior to prior brooms, which were pretty challenging to use efficiently.
The story behind the sorghum broom is pretty funny, too. A farmer in Massachusetts named Levi Dickenson, who grew sorghum, had the thought to use some of it to make a broom as a gift for his wife. She liked it so much she told all her friends about it, who all wanted one. Dickenson ended up inventing one of the first mechanized processes for broom making. Later on the Shakers came up with the process for making the modern flat broom. The Northeast U.S. dominated broom manufacturing well into the 20th century.
Hammers, axes and wedges all come to mind. Knives as well.
There have been a lot of specialized, interesting types of axes invented over the centuries. My favorites are the ice axe and the billhook.
Thumbnail designer no think
Edit: it got fixed. Originally read "Way Older Than Think."
Way older than think you say . . . Yup, that's way old I believe.
Yoda he may be words he speaks good they are not
@@dandylion7028😅😅
😂
How much older than think?
Oh shit! I no see that by self!!!
Designs through history never change, just like original ideas on TH-cam.
4:17 Spork has entered the chat
😂
The Schrader Valve is another that they got right first try. We've made smaller versions, but they all work identically. They've been keeping air in tires for 180 years with no reasons to change.
You're awesome n love ur concise topics that span so many things that I too am interested in! They are so well done... Thank you n keep it up!
Thank you for correcting the thumbnail! That was driving me crazy! ❤️
Nominating the pencil for a follow-up episode.
And the umbrella
Is Simon narrating a paperclip video every other week, or it's just me?
I wanna know more about the zipper trick !
@@Marykate465you put it through the hole where the original handle/tab was on the zipper
Just said the same thing 😂
That’s fascinating. I guess when something works as well as anything can it doesn’t ever change
Ah, yes. Spoons are spoons.
Me older than think.
3.5mm and 7mm audio jacks have remained unchanged for ages.
What about the 6.3mm jack and the stereo version. And the 4pole one for
L +R+ Video used by historical camcorders !
Tell that to Apple.
@@acerimmer8338 apple haven't changed or improved the design of them, they stopped using the tech, it's not the same.
Animals invented the broom because they didn’t really want to hang around dirty humans so they subliminally used their tail to sweep some dirt while a human watched and then finally after probably a couple thousand years or more someone caught on and started sweeping their caves.
Animals became happier or at least happy enough that they’d enter the cave if it was swept.
Before that they just layed at the mouth of caves and constantly moved their tails in a sweeping motion.
For thousands of years…..
Brilliant video that! More on this would be epic!
Messed up the thumbnail text ^^
People have certainly tried to change the designs constantly over the ages, but the best/cheapest one won the customer's silver every time.
The way the thumbnail is written is just a clever nod to how old some of these designs are
In the Victorian Era, dice became associated with gambling, so a lot of board-games invented then used spinners instead. The spinners were numbered 1 - 6, so there was no fundamental difference.
That "spinning" die (+/- 6:40) I found to be quite hypnotic.
11:06 No mention of the common phrase “No need to reinvent the wheel.” Really? Not even once?
I'm a dice man myself but have ventured into paperclip with a bit of worsting/string theory. Wheels, a degree in spokecology with bikes as a thesis.
I now know why a street in my home town is Ropewalk. It had never occurred to me to wonder why. I didn't even think it was related to manufacturing. I assumed it was because of the nearby canal & a different term for a tow-path.
Think about Ancient Rome. A big reason why they had a modern and efficient society were ropes, wheels, gears and similar. They probably had rope factories that didn’t survive because they used ropes for everything, especially their naval fleet.
As a Norwegian-American, I had always been told that the modern paperclip was invented in Norway. During WWII, resistance fighters in occupied Norway would wear a paperclip on their clothing, as a means of identifying other resistance members, but in a way that, if questioned, could be explained away as just having a handy paperclip for when you need one. The symbol was special to Norwegians, because that's where they were invented. That was the history story I have often heard. Now I gotta go do some extra research, to see if the stories I've been told are true, or not. I usually tryst this channel to have good research, but now I don't know who to trust...
Johan Vaaler was born on March 15, 1866, in Aurskog-Holand which is located in Akershus, Norway. He is usually credited with inventing the modern bent-wire style of paper clip. His original design apparently differed somewhat from the ubiquitous "gem" style we think of today, though I was unable to find out in what way. He invented it some few years before first applying for an American patent in 1901; the original invention may have been as early as five years before, more or less? Reports in the articles I found vary. It was a British inventor, working for the Gem company, that patented a machine for the making of bent-wire paperclips, in the double-oval style we're familiar with. That patent was for the machine; the paperclip it was designed to mass-produce already existed at that time.
Paperclip abuse... ruining pants since.... dang, I forgot.
Backgammon (among Chess and Go) is one of the 3 oldest and most popular games ever that is still widely played today. Backgammon is the only one among these 3 that uses dice and all 3 games didn't changed much throughout history.
The wheel has been improved. The bicycle wheel works by tension, not compression. The spokes hold the axle up to the top of the wheel and the weight is transferred around the rim to the ground. This allows the spokes to much lighter and the wheel easier to turn.
IKEA Cactus decor in the background, I have that on a shelf in my tv stand....
Thank you for updating the thumbnail. That was driving me nuts.
The safety pamphlet/video/standard outline of safety demonstrations on a passenger aircraft. I swear this should qualify… I remember being on a plane when I was 5 and again last year … nothing has changed (I’m going on 37)
I use paper clips to clean my bowls.
Jesus, I read that as bowels and did a double take 😂
Keep on doing what you do Mr Whistler, you have bought me a lot of interest and entertainment. I love this stuff as I have to sell/market/create stuff all the time. It is so nice, just to know in such an easy wonderful format. Are you still doing 'Geo politic'? You forgot everyone's favourite little MS Office - assistant 'Clippy'.:) Funny how things in the digital space keep on failing and disappearing faster than those in the reality. :)
If we’re talking about simple tools, there’s the Axe. Although the materials have changed the basic design has remained unchanged for 10s of thousands of years. Sewing needles, fishhooks, cooking pots… any one of those things would be easily recognizable to someone living 5000 years ago, new materials, same design.
Hello from Idaho USA!
Quote: ...rope is still just a bunch of strands twisted together to make something stronger than the individual pieces." ... sounds like a metaphor for a functioning civilisation.
Thank you Simon! Not earth shattering or thought provoking, but good old fashioned entertainment. And interesting facts.
My grandma had the first metal spoon set with the rose design
Knives, pointy sticks, Axes, Shovels, Hammers, Charcoal sticks.
Trigger got an award from Peckham council for maintaining the same broom for twenty years. It had 17 new heads and 14 new handles.
But, was it the same broom after all that replacement?? Theseus's Ship may have a thing or 2 to say about this 😂
@@captainspaulding5963 "Only fools and horses", it's a British sitcom. Trigger's not the brightest road sweeper in London lol.
In Shang Dynasty China, spoons were made of bone. Early bronze spoons in China were designed with a sharp point, and may have also been used as cutlery. The spoons of the Greeks and Romans were chiefly made of bronze and silver and the handel usually takes form of a spike or pointed stem.
Medieval spoons for domestic use were commonly made of cow horn or wood, but brass, pewter, and latten spoons appear to have been common in about the 15th century.
I get that they're saying the oldest spoons are found in 1,000bc in ancient egypt, but I would bet that they're as old as basically any wooden tools and possibly even before the more advanced Acheulean stone tool technology type. It's literally the first thing that you most people learn to carve when learning hand wood carving after doing a pointed stick. They can be easily made with stone tools, and not even knapped and advanced kinds, as even a piece of random piece of granite can be used as a grinding/sanding stone, and the bowl part can be burnt to shape using a coal from a fire or just twisting a rough stone into it like a drill/bore. I would agree it would be the oldest semi standardised eating utensil, and I would think it would have been made even before homo sapiens is first accepted to have evolved, and I wouldn't be surprised if homo erectus was already making them from bone and wood.
With an elastic you can fire paperclips like a little slingshot.
You forgot to mention that a major upgrade on the wheel was the addition of metal on the outer diameter to increase its longevity.
the offset spoke was a substantial design change
I hear you about the handle making it a 'real' spoon in some sense. But if you were camping and ate soup with shell, people would say you used the shell as a spoon.
But the key word is "as", which by definition means that the shell is not a spoon.
U can make this list alot longer. Knives, plate, mug,shoes, needle, bore, buttons are other examples. I think its very easy to find 100 more items
Prehistoric "batons" with holes in them have been found. Coincidentally, I just viewed a TH-cam channel about it this morning. They believe they used these to make rope, quite easily and quickly.
the DND and divinity joke is TOP TIER!! lol
Tension spokes are a "new" invention for wheels, making a non-circular rim fully adjustable through internal tension into a circular shape. Before these, spoke wheels used the external force of use to hold the wheel together.
And the tire (or tyre) is almost as old as the wheel itself - first as a bentwood circle keeping the solid wheel from wearing end grain faster and going out of round, then metal tires first bent around the wheel, and later mounted hot to shrink onto the wheel, then various resilient materials to cushion the wheel, and finally the pneumatic tire. So tires are an evolutionary advance on the wheel, not an innovation in their own right.
The modern broom has its roots in the Shakers. They made it flat, stiff and began manufacturing.
I would argue about the wheel. While rollers are known all over the history of civilization, axel bearing is what makes up a wheel. A proper wheel, that converts all of the sliding friction into rolling friction was invented quite recently.
While sites dating back 35+45,000 years have shown the ability of. Boring holes to create beads, the one invention that was probably more important is the eyed needle. This simple creation into a sharp pointed sliver of something like bone, or plant thorns, permitted the attachment of animal skins together or to be attached ti any type of framework.
last time I was this early, we still drank water
This was GREAT! And, oddly enough, I just wrote out the process of making simple two-ply rope from green grass for a piece of fiction I'm working on not three days ago. So yeah, I really loved that part. :)
It's interesting-- I went on a guided hike out here in the U.S.'s Southwest a few months ago to see a well-documented mammoth kill location (the Murray Springs Clovis Site), and there was a display laid out by one of the local archaeologists with actual artifacts as well as replicas, One of them was a replica of an antler-piece with two holes in it. They've always considered it a shaft-straightener; now they're beginning to wonder if it was used to make rope. Or maybe it was used for both tasks, who knows?
Loved the DnD part. I’ve been playing since 1981. 😂
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I haven't been playing for long but I love it.
Personally, I prefer an angeled broom.
Simon your the perfect history teacher
I was so happy to see a spoon on the list
That old two prong fork you showed was for holding something down while you cut it I don't know if they even ate off those back then
The paperclip is actually a compact folded portable version of the earwax removal tool...
Ouch !
I absolutely hate the plastic toes used in socks, etc. It's such a pain to remove. I wish they would stop putting them in socks and underwear.
I don't think I've ever bought a pair of socks with protective plastic in the toes, didn't realise they were even sold like that
shark wheels are quite the upgrade on my longboard
In my days of D&D, I had a 100 sided die among my collection. Although I never really used it. I just thought it was cool.
Tension spokes are a relatively modern upgrade to the wheel. Only with the invention of carbon fiber has a conventional wheel retaken the place of a tension spoke design on the most advanced bicycles. Tension spoked wheels are still the best design available for off road motorcycle wheels as they are flexible, and resist damage better than other designs of similar weight.
I really hope this one gets a ton of views because I want A part 2
Interesting - but I have to disagree on the comment about the spoke being the last development of the wheel. Surely the invention of the wire spoke in 1802 (GF Bauer) would be a notable change. Totally different to a standard cart-wheel type spoke, relying not on the resistance to compression, but a wire in tension is a fundamental change in the mechanics of the wheel making it lighter and more comfortable
Threads for sewing is after all rope as well.
The simple nail, has been around forever and is pretty likely whats holding your house together today.
Useful for crucifixion !
Turns out Bostrom's Paperclip Maximizer has already been unleashed, it's just moving slower than expected
I love the d6 ballet!
The basic design of the wheel has never changed.
My question is:- If it isn't circular and rotating about it's centre, is it a wheel? 🤔
While you may occasionally see a round house or a triangle house, 4 walls and a roof has been pretty much the standard.
Only since the Romans invaded these British shores.
Before that circular houses predominated because they needed no engineering expertise to set out. A peg and a bit of string was sufficient.
Shout out Bluey from Tumut NSW still making traditional millet brooms 🧹