The Most Underrated Invention in History
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2024
- The invention of string, often overshadowed by the wheel's fame, arguably stands as one of the most transformative yet underrated breakthroughs in human history. Its broad impact stretches across essential human endeavors, from fishing and clothing to technological advancements. Fishing nets, enabled by string, revolutionized diet and community growth near water bodies. The invention also paved the way for stitched fabrics, enhancing survival through clothing that protected against harsh climates.
Moreover, string was pivotal in developing the bow and arrow, altering hunting and warfare landscapes. It also contributed to early machinery, such as rudimentary drills and saws, laying groundwork for future technological progress. Crucially, string aided in controlling fire, a breakthrough for warmth, safety, and cooking. In its simplicity, string embodies profound ingenuity, illustrating how fundamental inventions can profoundly shape human civilization.
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actually never thought of the fact that string was that important in the history. fantastic video!
Amazing realisation
Yeah I also didn't thought of that I'm stupid
I guess you could say that it holds everything together.
Pretty sure bows used animal parts for the string at some early points, a book I read set in the stone age if i remember correctly mentions that and the author does research on the times she writes about (I have checked her sources on other things and while some has been simplified a bit by her she hasn't really been wrong)
We did learn that people used animal sinew to sew clothes, so the question of strings kinda was left aside.
Bushcrafters and survivalists specifically train on making/ finding string to connect stuff.
Paracord and a good knife is the holy grail of survival
Bank line @@prakharmishra3000
That's what I was thinking too
The main thing from keeping me from getting into bushcrafting was that I suck at making rope or string
@@roqeyt3566eat a lot of grass and wait
@@goodluck5642😅😂
"A world without string, is chaos."
-Mousehunt
Quote from original house owner
The Stringmaker
Strings also make beautiful music. The physics of how it works is rather interesting and gives a deeper insight into the external and internal universe.
People in 2024: STRING Theory
People in 120.000 BC: STRING Theory
underrated comment
Evolution is a big lie of human and demonic intellect.
Humans were created by God and are about 8000 years old
👍🏼
Winner comment 🏆🗿
Ohhh yeah
The string made the bow drill, which in turn made the wheel.
Which we in turn used to spin more string😂
Yall are cool
@-_pi_- it's incredible how early humans can be so smart and inventive and now we have people who think the earth is flat while using internet from a satellite
Not really, but it did make the process of making small round things much more accurate and repeatable. All you need to make a round object is to turn that object in something and have the ability to shave it down as you do and at medium scales this process can be done entirely manually.
@@JoeMama-rd2dr I heard that flat earthers are just so far against authority that they choose to believe anything but what authority says
Making cordage is one of the first things you learn in bushcrafting because it unlocks so many other abilities
homie bought the worlds supply of embroidery floss to make this vid
I was absolutely obsessed with trying to figure out how string was made when I was a kid. This was before the internet, when you could just look that up, and adults seemed to always think my questions were weird and stupid, so I never bothered asking anyone. Turns out, that's not something most seven year olds are going to be able to figure out on their own.
I'm sorry people treated you like your questions were bad. Wondering how string is made is actually a really cool question. I bet your other questions were also great too.
You must be a really intelligent and interesting person to be around.
I totally getcha. I was obsessed with figuring out how computers worked before I even had a computer lol. Nobody around me would tell me either but I think that's because they had no idea 😂
Keep that curiosity! It makes like so much more interesting.
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Here's a video of an old rope making technique (it's in Spanish but it's super cool!)
ruclips.net/video/Wbf1Yr1j1ZM/видео.htmlsi=SbNnWryEJ-5m2K0I
A primitive technique to make cord out of tree bark. Super fascinating!
Only thanks to your comment did I remember how fascinated I was by this as a child. Once I found a really cool piece of wood, soaked from lying in a river, with a stringy part right underneath its bark. I tried making little strings out of it in my grandparents‘ garden and they turned out quite well. I still remember the weird smell of the wood.
Thank you for bringing back good memories!
Stay curious friends
String's also very useful in construction. You can make perfectly straight lines and perfect circles using just a nail and some string
Add a second nail and you can even draw ellipses !
Often not even needing a nail but just a stick
@@ajoshdoingthings541very true
As well as using it and a "plumb Bob" for perfectly straight lines vertically. I'm off topic, but another incredibly simple and ancient way to ensure you have the same height at two different points, like the tops of two posts you intend to put a beam across, is with a "water-level". It's a lot cheaper than a lazer-level and does just as good a job.
You can level out walls, and ceilings with it. Also a plumb Bob uses a string.
To invent the process, you only need to go from the thing that has the usage of a string, such as intertwined vines. Then, you "backtrack" to "what can give that?". You don't necessarily go back up to fibrous plants, there are many other ways to end up with different types of "strings" or "ropes". One of them is to use hevea sap to get elastic bands...
Very true! String is an amazingly useful invention. One of the other most important invention was pottery and clay work. Our ancestors used clay and pottery to be able to carry water from one place to another, safely store things, or be able to build strong structures that stay up and don't degrade or rot in the rain. It's a reason that so much of Primitive Technology's channel is a lot of working with clay.
That's another level intro 🗿
Somebody does crossstitch, and is probably annoyed with him ;)
@@travcollier Unless it's him. As a dude who does cross-stitch and can barely afford the materials to fuel his passion, I'm very jealous of his pile of string.
@@Soken50 Is certainly possible, though not super likely. Guys who crossstitch, quilt, knit, ect. get my respect though. And yeah, that is a lot of $ in threads.
I should also mention the Sling, a weapon made entirely of string that uses rocks you just found on the ground or specially crafted lead bullets for both warfare and hunting game for millennia. whilst the sling has always been more niche than the bow, the sling feels like it deserves a mention.
Goliath would concur
@@salemsaberhagan If he didn't have a rock in his head
Well, sling was made out of string.
Indeed, while the bow can shoot many many flimsy projectiles, the sling can shoot a few armor-piercing projectiles, and wasn't truly rendered obsolete until the invention of the crossbow :D
I wouldn't even call slings niche. From my understanding slings were more common than bows on the battlefield from ancient times till the middle ages. They were also very commonly used around the world including in the New World. The only times bows really outperformed slings was when certain units could close the gap fast (horseback archers, chariot archers) or when technology gave an advantage (longbows, crossbows) otherwise slings held an advantage.
Cavemen: oh fire!
Others: STRING
That bow and arrow looked so good
First "computer" cards were for loom patterns, too.
I'm also thinking about these automatic piano's, but there's strings again
The internet is just strings of metal and glass. Which is why there are some many cats on it.
Is this what string theory is about?!
It's all connected
@@visisius9339you might even say it's all tied together
"A world without string is chaos"
This comment should have the most likes in the comment section
Came here looking for this. God-tier reference, my guy.
@@CFICare do you know where??
@@SurfingdaWind "Mouse Hunt" movie.
Damn, beat me to it
I personally think that shovels were the most groundbreaking invention of their time
You're so punny lol
I read a post once from someone that was learning how to spin string and yarn, and what they said really stuck with me. It's such a quintessential invention that it (and the people who constructed it, spinners) had a lot of cultural ubiquity, that's now completely gone, and when you return to the craft it's kind of mindblowing that most people don't even think about it anymore. The phrase "spin a yarn" came from this, and now most people couldn't tell you how yarn is made or identify a spinning wheel in isolation (unless you know from Sleeping Beauty, and even then most people probably couldn't tell you what it was used for.) They compared it to a future where ready-to-eat food was so readily available that nobody knows how to cook anymore, or even that cooking is an activity to be done, and that it's actually necessary for everyday life. We have so many phrases centered around cooking in some way because it's a commonly understood thing, can you imagine still having those phrases but not knowing what cooking is or what it's for?
String really ties everything together.
That's an interesting theory. You could say it's a "string theory".
Wheel + string = Pulley. The final boss of ancient technology.
Archimedes sipping mimosas in his grave
We making it out of the Neolithic with this one!
Ahhh.... the CVTs of the ancient world
@@TaLeng2023actual amusing take on a an overdone meme
@@TheThingoftheSkyyes troll
Finally, a string theory I can really understand 😅
Death Stranding uses this concept in an anthropological way, with Sam Bridges being a living string between people, reconnecting them and rebuilding society
Went out of my way to look for a Death Stranding reference in the comments
Stone tools sobbing quietly in the corner wondering how we forgot the 2million years we spent together.
Stone, stick, string
😢
@@codebrackerat first there was only stone
How tf you put the wood and stone together tho
@@Silvrahyou tear through the wood with a sharp rock
Thats a vsauce level intro
String is the ultra-hand of our reality
@@radicalpaddyoor is it?
**Vsauce music plays**
The wheel is under appreciated, helps lift and push the most heaviest thing
Never thought about the simple string in this light. This was fascinating.
Most people seem to think that "the wheel" refers to cart wheels; but we had "the wheel" for thousands of years before it became useful for large wagons. Since wagons needs roads to be useful. But we had small wheels used for things like spinning threads (string) and for making pottery etc. long before it was used for driving. In fact wheels was probably used more as a children's toy than for transportation before roads were invented.
iirc the inca's basically had toy cars lol. they didn't have actual cars or even anything even resembling a wagon, but they had toy cars for kids.
Wagon's didn't necessarily require man made roads. Relatively flat, dry terrain was ideal, but not a necessity. With enough pull, a well crafted wheel will transfer load through a variety of terrain.
Wheels before transport were most likely employed in pottery wheels, mills, and wheel barrow styled devices.
Wheels were initially used as pulleys and water wheels. They weren't used for transportation until we started to create actual means of transportation such as wagons and wheelbarrows.
@@jackorlove4055 Yes, but anything much heavier than a wheelbarrow/handcart would require something resembling a road; and while you can find natural surfaces that are solid enough like salt flats (when it's completely dry), rocks scoured flat by glaciers, some rocky desert environments etc. most of these areas are separated from each other by areas that are too steep, too wet or too loose to traverse with a heavy cart. So until people started to build roads; heavy wheeled carts were less useful than you'd think.
It's also quite hard to make low friction bearings for wheels that work for heavier loads than one man can pull; and with a bad or locked bearing the wheeled cart is harder to move than a sled; so in fact sleds were used not only in snow but also everywhere else before we had created good low friction bearings.
And wherever you have snow, it was usually preferred to do all moving of heavy loads (like logging or moving construction materials over land) in winter when the sleds were more effective than in summer.
Wheels were popularized on steppe terrain after pastoralization of horses and cows. Roads came after the wheel, along common routes, and cut and maintained in forests with a lot of trade activity. A road in a forest requires near daily maintenance of clearing thickets and deadwood, and a leveled flattened ground with enough girth to fit a horse. That means a lot of bridges and ramps, and a dedicated crew of bushwhackers. Otherwise, sleds, pulley systems, and riverine crafts can accomplish everything a road can, almost as well, without nearly as much maintenance and construction, and with no prerequisite of pastoralization (which itself requires large flat terrain with plenty of grass to herd ruminants and horses.)
Boats and rafts have been used for tens of thousands of years before the wheel, and you can pull a sled along foot trails with a couple of men, which will naturally overtime make the trail even better for sleds.
Roads are only an efficient investment, if you already have wheels to begin with in order to navigate large flat terrains.
Cups are pretty important too, under appreciated. every nature documentary ever says "the hardest part of their day is the watering hole" so who ever figured out taking water somewhere safe to drink is the realest hero. We also have reflexes for keeping cups upright. Even when falling. Even when drunk. Also important in mastering fire. Definitely my #1 fav. invention; Cup/bowl/water container.
Yes, you are correct. Our reflexes in keeping a glass upright and level even while inebriated is kind impressive. To quote The Dude from The Big Lebowski, "Hey, I have a beverage here."
I'd never looked at it like that, despite the amount of times I've seen drunk people (myself included) fall off a chair and not spill a drop. It's become a matter of pride in fact.
I’m imagining a bunch of cavemen taking their water back to their cave in individual cups and just sitting with them. One dude spills them and the rest remark on the very first “party foul” in mankind 😂😂😂 they never let poor grog live that down 😂
It's crazy that we've been using cups so long we've evolved a whole sixth sense for never letting them spill. Toss someone a ball and they might swat it to the ground but let a cup fall off the side of the table and their hands will shoot out like five-headed vipers to keep it upright.
Diogenes needs no weak ass cup/bowl/containter, Diogenes has his god-given hands for eat, drink, and masturbate with.
On a serious note, the inventions you are talking about are baskets and ceramics. I'm not sure baskets could ever be woven tight enough to keep water and ceramics come with the neolithic revolution, so they don't qualify for thos discussion.
As someone who crochets I agree on the value of string. string is love. String is life.
You're a truly amazing creator
Thank you so much for always helping to expand my mind
Much love ❤
String theory will be the next civilization changer 😂
Not string cheese?
@@DBT1007that too, but it was more of a present civilization changer, after internet.
@@justamatchstick7535 😁
It's more likely a dead end to spin brillinant minds soy that they prpgress nowhere while keeping the right direction hidden.
"What did you create/discovered?"
"MORE STRINGS"
"...wtf?"
one of the best short format channels. a beacon of light among all the low effort AI voiced channels.
SECONDED!
It's getting bad out here
Absolutely, well put!
If anyone can recommend similar quality educational shorts channels, please do!!
Astute observation
The wheel also helps string out a LOT with production methods. Soooooo, the wheel does deserve it's credit. Even thought its literally a shape.
This man bought all of Joann Fabrics’ string closeout sale
It's crazy how much technology was originally adapted from fiber arts and textile manufacture. Punch cards - an early form of storing data on mechanical computers - were originally created for automated weaving looms.
Even the word 'technology' comes from the same root as 'textile'.
Silicon chips are basically electrical string. If you took one to a microscope, you'll see "string" stacked in a organized way.
As a spinner I absolutely love this. Read an article once arguing string was as big a deal as fire. I’m not sure of that, but I’m glad someone sees it as important.
Dont you get dizzy spinning?
@@imbio6930 Only if you REALLY stare at the flyer. 😁
That bow design looks beautiful
This is why I love the fibre arts so much. Knotting, braiding and weaving yarn truly is one of the oldest human instincts
people forget that in order to invent anything, we have to have the time to do that. So something like string, that can allow things to be done faster or even done passively, is key! this is so cool!
The dudes wrong, sinew, gut and vines act as string for most things.
Actual string as we know it came after.
@@James-sk4db iirc the oldest dated base for string is sinew for bows, the second silk for fabric, and the third gut for instruments? its hard to say when it comes to plant matter because folks have been weaving with plants for a similarly unimaginably long time. the point of the video is less about plants being the basis of string, and more about the utility of string in comparison to its emphasis in mundane discussions about human engineering, though, so those corrections arent relevant.
Except the Indigenous Peoples of Australia: they were happy doing the same thing for 60,000yrs
Thank you for roping together these jumbled threads into useful information! Sometimes, piecing together information is like undoing a big knot, and these ties of history is not an exception. Many thanks!
What a nice string of puns
Same as spinning a yarn
excellent!
Great piece! Thanks for posting.
Ceramic/glassware is another overlooked invention that immeasurably benefitted humanity.
the child of a crafter/seamstress in me nearly had a heart attack when you tossed all those skeins of floss!!! hahahahaah
I'm having a minor panic attack because they're unraveling! 😱
Right?! Put those back in order!
Exactly. 😅
Ngl, I had some floss envy. All that thread! Then I wondered how fast the thread owner ran to rescue that stash.
I was searching for this comment! 😂 Hello kindred spirits.
Textile have always been important.
Right, but textiles are "women's work" so we all know how the story goes.
@@justwhistlinpixieWhat?
@@justwhistlinpixieman you really need to go to school
@@axolotl3883I'm pretty sure they mean its importance has been downplayed a lot in history because working with it was considered the work of women, and historically, women has had a lot less credit given to them than men.
@@kapser2210 and why would anyone do that? When was the last time you considered textiles and their history? Unless it's something you're interested in, no one else really thinks about it. Not all imagined slights are real.
Cockatoo collins taught me how to make string from the bark of cotton trees a while back. It’s a very cool and useful skill.
True. Thanks for the reminder, we do take things for granted at times.
My sister and I had this exact conversation! The wheel helped to transport things, making the world smaller and ideas more easily exchangeable. String? String was the precursor to basically every idea that didn’t involve bashing two sticks together.
including tying furs to each other, or a belt to hold furs onto a person, so pockets/bags
String Are also Important to lift Things. If you combined Strings With Wheel you get Pulley.
And if you combine string with a specifically-cutted-wood you get yoyos
@@voiky752
"cutted" _💀_
and if you make string out of metal it can transfer huge amounts of power very quickly
And you can use wheels to make string.
I think you would need to invent rope for it to have any strength which is a heck of a lot easier to make with a wheel and pulleys. I have tried to make rope by hand and even with fibres from modern plants which have been artificially selected for a long time to produce long and strong fibres…. it really takes a really really long time and lots of blisters.
And it’s not just the string itself. A huge amount of innovation was driven by the need for more/better string.
Interesting.... When thinking about wilderness survival, my mind always gravitates towards how I can make string, pretty much immediately. Great video!
String (which strings together to make rope!) was as revolutionary to early human technology as the machine lathe was to the Industrial Revolution.
Both were the fundamental tool that every other technology relied on to be developed.
My gramda in Mexico made a living making string out of the local plant called maguey, and then making cloths and selling it in town. I watched her so it, it amazed me
Sew* just trying to help
Your videos are always so entertaining and give insights into things we take for granted. Thank you!
I like to imagine he wandered into grandma’s room and thought “I could totally make this into a short”
The modern human doesn't even realize how difficult string is.
Well yeah you need to dry some Wood bark or some good fiber leaves to make one😂😂
@@tonyblairs1888 you can make some fantastic cordage from twisted blackberry brambles the ones in early spring work best cut them de-thorn them, and separate the outer bark, and twist it into strong cordage. it makes a very serviceable bowstring, snare lines anything you may need this is one of the things you do around camp after the day's tasks are completed. knapping arrowheads, making cordage, fletching arrow shafts, it helps to make the time pass more efficiently
As a fiber crafter… watching you throw the embroidery thread made my chest hurt….
First - learn to make string.
Second - learn to untangle string. 😁
Blessings!
Me too! I was cringing!
Thankfully they are all still connected to their tags, otherwise that would have been a whole week affair to organize...
Yeah, I was cringing, too, about all that precious embroidery floss being tossed about.
@@QuiltedKittenFostersyou just know they picked up loads of cat hair while on the floor
i'm wondering whos collection it is 😅
This is first time I've seen a credit for string. And he's totally right.
As a crocheter, you dont know how much happiness i felt seeing the first seconds of the video lol
The Rope, and The Stick. One to keep everything we want together, and one to keep everything we don’t away
The Stick?
You can say that humanity’s future was dangled on a string
Get out of here
Badum tss...
Noose 🙃
Beep Beep I'm a sheep
@@Mewhaid beep beep beep beep I am a sheep
Lmao at the wee head wiggle through the string, i love that you imagined it and then did it, for no reason other than to make the video a little funnier 😂
One of the skills they teach in survival schools is how to identify and process fiber into string/rope. It's considered an essential long term survival skill.
When I was really young I imagined everything worked through an advanced system of strings and pulleys. I still vividly remember trying to figure out the pulley system for a doorbell.
Fabulous video as usual. Every crafter is silently correcting those skeins to floss or thread, but still 5 stars. And that stash of "string" inspired me to start my day with embroidery.
Yeah, I’m itching to reach through the screen and organize all that floss, lol.
I am moreso wondering if he bought those just for the video because that’s, like, a LOT of money’s worth.
Spinner and knitter here. I feel so seen
Cosplayer here and I feel that.
I am none of these things listed, but I definitely feel big "Math is math" energy in myself lmao.
I can really recommend the toyota museum in nagoya, japan.
They show the entire progression of the industrialization on an example of making strings and eventually weaving them together into textiles.
(Toyota produced looms before building cars)
Its a really good presentation of human ingenuity and shows that progression takes part in really tiny steps and innovations, rather than inventing something comoeltely new.
Best museum i have ever been to.
Very inspiring!
That's why Jolene's stand is rightfully goated
string is also the start to clothing, particularly shoes. with that, you have the ability to travel in adverse weather conditions, incentive to maintain a living animal population in one place for supplies like skin and wool (farming and domestication) and develop social status with style, fabric type and colour choices.
Nah, we had shoes before strings
Not to mention the way we can use string to craft clothing which gives us even more of an adaptive edge when moving across different environments
That was my first thought. Perhaps since animal hair precedes plant string ...
But there were already skins and hides for that, so woven fabrics were a refinement rather than a game changer.
Also love that we figured out we could use hair to make ‘string’ to make garments. As someone who spins yarn, I still get all geeky over it
Horses also played a huge role in shaping our civilization. 🐎 😊
hi i’m a huge textile nerd & you’re right, string, fibers, & textiles are literally intertwined with human history! a large reason they get less recognition is because it is traditionally “womens work” and thus seen as less valuable 🙃
Absolutely, textiles are so important!!! Happens in the art world too, textile art is so underrated. There's a big sexism element to it for sure, and also just the fact that they aren't preserved as well as other materials so we have less examples to point to & learn from. Can i ask your recommendations for YT channels about textiles? It's such a cool topic and I want to learn more :)
I'm not well versed enough in math to remember all the details but learning how the first mathematical calculations were from women who developed the different patterns and formulas is mind blowing
So, was cordage made from animal sinew invented before cordage made from plant fibers?
Honestly, and I’m the first to point out patriarchy bs, I think string doesn’t get attention because we take it for granted. I never thought about how amazing it really is to be able to connect things together. Without it humans wouldn’t have ever gotten out of the Stone Age. We could have gotten by without the wheel, Native Americans did fine, but string? Can’t make anything without it.
I don't think it has anything to do with sexism... This is so tedious and tiresome these days.
Sinew deserves a mention. Also, you can't have textiles without some sort of suitable spun fibre/string
Great inventions are never noticed because they become deeply ingrained into life.
"A world without string is chaos."
-Rudolf Smuntz
a world without string.... is CHAOS!
I came to say this too🤣
Is that Mouse Hunt?
@@TheMindRobber42 im so glad a few other people remember Mouse Hunt lol
spoons, spoons! So many spoons so little time
- Rudolf Smuntz
I like how you STRUNG all of these scenes together
Real cool! I'm imagining the dentist pumping his foot to drill your teeth! Ouch! 😅
bro made his own version of string theory 🤯
The comment I'm looking for
" a world without string is chaos" - Mousetrap movie
You've made Kojima-san VERY happy.
As a fiber artist, all that embroidery floss is pure eye candy to me lol
There’s a reason why Hempen Rope is one the most commonly used items in D&D. There’s an insane amount of ways it can be used outside of combat!
Y'all smoking rope in D&D? 😂
just casually sticking your face in $100 of dmc embroidery floss. 😂
Only 100? Hahaha
@@paigeh1670 oh definitely more
Completely fascinating. Thanks.
I don’t play D&D so idk how true this is in general to usual gameplay, but in a D&D podcast I listen to, anytime the players are trying to come up with a solution and use what they have, rope/string often comes up as a necessary tool. And the DM always says “you always have rope”, as in “it’s always an available resource that you don’t need to search for or buy or make”. It’s the only tool that is always available to them in that way.
shoutout to sheep for just growing it on their skin
It also grows out of your head naturally.
String theory confirmed
I sew on the side, and string really amazes me. I used to weave as well, and it's like -- wow, at some point, we needed to make string to make clothes work well. What a crazy thought.
String theory is literally energy that keeps everything in motion.
The moment you mentioned string I immediately started running through my head of why that couldn't be, then realized that almost every primitive invention or discovery have a step dealing with string or rope.
As someone who enjoys slinging, it's nice to see the comments mentioning it. Truly an underrated weapon in modern times and perfect for throwing balls for a dog!
There’s a reason a LOT of survival/outdoor channels will have tutorials on turning things into string
Prehistoric guy who invented tools handle: 👀
THAT PILE WAS _NOT_ STRING! Nope, THAT pile was in fact... _embroidery floss._
*Phew. Now, _I_ feel sooo much better. Don't you? Thanks for reading my lil rant post. _Please_ go out & have yourself a really great day. 🤞🍀😂😂
Never thought much about string. My unsung hero was always the humble container (pottery and bags) for the ability to have possessions, and carry them with you. With the container you can store more food than you can eat on the spot, you can carry more water than you can drink so you don't have to live on the banks. You can carry everything you have with you when you move and you don't have to start all over every time you arrive at the new food place. Without containers, all you can have is whatever you can carry in two hands. The wheel gets all the credit but nobody talks about the simple container. Or the string that made containers portable.
I wouldn't make just one invention the hero. We are here because people learned to combine these inventions.
Me, an embroidery artist, sobbing about how long it would take to reorganize those handfuls of thread
String was a very important component for making one of the most important weapons in human history, the sling. Nowadays people call guns the great equalizer, but there used to be a saying, "God made Man, then man got some string, some leather and a couple of rocks, and stood on equal footing with God." Just as, if not more prevalent in human history than the bow.
Also the computers that got us to the moon were woven cable crafted by some god tier seamstresses, along with the space suits they used. We also now use strings of optical fibre to run the backbone of the internet.
You can throw rocks by hand
So, yeah u r dumb
@@NovaPaxthe 0 1 code is also based on knitting machine patterns I think (they at the very least used them with the old computers), not necessarily directly related to string, but it is connected
Next up, micro-molecular machines and tritium powered devices. Do anything. Go anywhere.
guns are the great equalizer. it takes great skill to use a sling. it takes almost no skill to use a gun.