Thread: Greatest invention man created throughout history?

Originally Posted by timebandit

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and women in sexy underwear

Originally Posted by tankie

and attractive women in sexy underwear

Fixed it for you.

Originally Posted by Johnny W

Fixed it for you.

Danke .

Learning how to make flint and obsidian arrowheads and spearheads WITHOUT whacking them with another rock. This resulted in the first bench tool and provided a means of increasing production in much less time.

The tool? A deer antler achored between rocks and a piece of rawhide for the workman to hold the flint or obsidian to prevent finger reduction. As demonstrated to me several years ago up in Oregon (where the Klammath Indians used mostly Obsidian for their edged tools and weapons) it was merely a case of pressing the stone against the antler and chipping away. That's how they were able to "machine" the small notches on each side for attaching to the weapon shaft. And if the antler wore out, there were plenty more around for replacements.

And I fully suspect this method was discovered by ancient man in Europe long before the first human inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere. It's just that professional archeologists prefer to come up with their own ideas of how things were made thinking ancient man was dumb.

As shown on "Mythbusters" it takes 6 to 8 hours to make an arrowhead by "lapping" (whacking with a rock). If it took that long, we wouldn't be finding any today as they would have been too valuable to just leave on the ground if missing the target (dinner on the hoof).

Using an anchored deer antler as a chipping edge an experienced weapons maker can put out one to two an hour (maybe more if he was real good). If you miss with a couple of arrows, no need to spend time retrieving them as you are now needed by your hunting party to get the animal gutted out and carried home in time for the barbeque to heat up.

So if you lost two arrows, the weapon makers of your group probably already had an inventory of arrows and spears that they were making while you were out shopping.

Electricity.

an engine.

fake b00bs

Originally Posted by gunnut

fake b00bs

Good one, although I prefer enhanced to fake.

Joint Stock Company ...

If that can be called an invention by Man.

Originally Posted by subba

I'd say the greatest invention has been the conceptualization of the number 10 as in the modern numeral system. This is in conjunction with depicting the first 9 digits in abstract form, i.e 3 is not III or 4 is not IIII.

There is no 10 without a zero.

I don't see anything special about 10, other than the fact that we have 10 fingers. Counting systems based on 8 or 12 or 16 (hexidecimal anyone) would make just as much sense if we had that many fingers. Of course, the terminating number in the series would probably be written as 10, e.g. in hexidecimal: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F,10.

One thing that surprised me with the Romans, their written numbering system as deficient as it was, were extremely proficient in communicating very large and specific numbers quickly through hand gestures.

Originally Posted by Chaobam Armour

Electricity.

Man never invented Electricity C/A , however he invented the tools to harness it and use . But i know where ya,all coming from

Originally Posted by omon

an engine.

Bet you wouldnt say that if you were serving on a Chieftain Tank omon