NO WIRE COAT HANGERS!!
Posted on 06/17/2014 11:35:24 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
Thanks Robert A. Cook, PE.
Toolmaking with stone should be on there, at or near the top — humans have gone from crude stone tools to scanning tunneling electron microscopes.
Also at or near the top, writing. Duh.
Here’s an unusual extra to the GGG list.
Yes, but how does it know?
Perhaps, but if I wanted to bring in Connections, I'd talk about how the Black Plague contributed to literacy in Western Europe. The whole underwear tie-in.
Good chance we would not be here, at least in the south, if it wasn’t for bug spray...
With respect to the plow, the description talks about prehistoric use and says "improvements in the plow's design made farming so efficient that people could harvest far more food than they needed to survive.
I agree with you, and assume the authors of the list agree with you about the plow not being a single invention.
The pizza oven
Novocaine. Penicillin. X-ray machine. The lateen sail. The stirrup. The radio. The five-speed musical vibrator. Wait, scratch that one.
Anthropologists credit fire/cooking as a major step in mans advancement. Cooked starches made more nutrition available for digestion. I read that on an FR link one day.
Put FR somewhere on the list.
His Marxism comes through in later iterations — Connections led to The Day the Universe Changed, on through some others, including The Toolmaker’s Gift. The original is something I’d enjoy seeing again, vids may be online and there are good solid (free) ways of archiving them on the local drive...
https://www.google.com/webhp?ie=UTF-8#q=connections+james+burke&tbm=vid
The sippy cup.
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Red-headed women with freckles
The Martin D-28/Gibson J-45
The Designated Hitter (the list didn't say the invention had to change the world for the better
The lever?
Beer.
Intermittent windshield wipers
Plumbing and sewerage.
NO WIRE COAT HANGERS!!
I think the birth control pill has changed our world fundamentally. It will strongly influence the future of Mankind.
Gun powder, fire, steel
Ah, but what about a firm place to stand? ;’)
The weaving loom enabled clothes made of things that could be grown instead of hunted and skinned.
and the later development of looms that utilized punch cards to make woven designs directly led in a line to punch cards for counting machines and ultimately computers
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