Crakajak
Daily Driveler News Team
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Folks were navigating the globe long before a compass was inventedSeriously, I think there are too many to single out just one.
Fire was discovered. But the invention of easy ways to make fire lead to cooked meat eating and the development of the human brain.
The written word led to the passing down of knowledge.
The compass made us able to navigate the globe.
There are many others between then and the microchip, which led to modern-day computing.
Accepted...Folks were navigating the globe long before a compass was invented
But it's not an invention,,,,The ability to make and control fire, without a doubt.
Man certainly did invent ways to make fire.But it's not an invention,,,,
Even the Flint isn't an invention,,,,Man certainly did invent ways to make fire.
So simple a hillbilly could do it!
Go out right now and make me a fire without a lighter or a match or some such, from natural materials you find on the land. The means to make fire from scratch (i.e. hand drill, bow drill, fire saw, etc.,) is definitely an invention, and a quite complex one, and one that probably did more for our species than any other invention in its history.But it's not an invention,,,,
Now those are inventions,,,,but fire isn't,,,,but you think a hand drill is more important than the plow?Go out right now and make me a fire without a lighter or a match or some such, from natural materials you find on the land. The means to make fire from scratch (i.e. hand drill, bow drill, fire saw, etc.,) is definitely an invention, and a quite complex one, and one that probably did more for our species than any other invention in its history.