It was the first metal turning lathe created by Jacques de Vaucanson in C1750-51
Post your contender for the most important invention of all time
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The water wheel. Hear me out:
It was the first time in history that humans harnessed the power of nature to create mechanical energy. The waterwheel crushed grain, turned lathes, and automated a lot of other tedious jobs. It was a big step in the right direction of eventually becoming an interstellar civilization. We will have to harness other stored energies in nature such as nuclear fusion and fission (like that of our Sun). It's the only way we'll ever leave earth, and we'll have to soon.
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Patriarchy
I always like to say it was the knife. Our oldest tool, and the most likely tool a person would choose to bring everywhere.
The machine that made everything possible, good choice OP
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roman concrete was pretty much alchemy to them. they were able to use shells and sand from the beach to make structures anywhere.
Optical glass
Braap sniffer 8000
This unironically
TNT
realistically though every major breakthrough is equally as important since they help create additional breakthroughs.
Probably this unironically
The motor.
You, sir, are a patrician.
That being said, I'd go so far to say that the wheel in general is the most important invention of all time. It is the Eve to every piece of technology to come after its inception.
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The sun doesnt use nuclear fission
This one was pretty awesome too, everything went batshit as soon as this happened
peenit batter
>The motor.
>lathe machine
I will never go near one ever again.
Fake tits are the worlds greatest invention.
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benis
Sanitation is still in use and saved the most lives of any other, does it count?
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did he died
Printing Press.
Society
This unironically
Stirrups.
Have some gold
loisences
no no no no no
Plastic
I love a good trip to the skeleton factory
Nukes
this
The flatstone
If there were no way to naturally produce a perfectly flat object it would be nearly impossible to gain the precision so create one artificially. In other words, the genesis of all precision was the discovery that taking three stones and rubbing them together in the right order, intteratively, makes a natural perfect flat.
is he ded?
The correct answer is portable and maintainable fire.
Semiconductors are right up there.
You wouldn't even have a computer to post memes with if it wasn't for the motor.
>Zyklon B
jewish pogroms
vaccines
Writing.
This!
>the motor.
kek
ball bearings
threaded fasteners
This video gets shown at training days. Big lathes take no prisoners. Long hair and beards are a no no.
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civil rights
that brainlet gave me a hearty kek
Got a link to the process? Sounds fascinating
I got it. The plough.
Money
You're mother said the same thing last night
The lathe is USELESS without the POWER of the ANGLO (steam). It was als USELESS untill the ANGLO POWER of Joseph Whitworth and Henry Maudslay COMBINED to make it ACCRUATE.
thats what i did to your mum last night lol
>money
>the wheel in general is the most important invention of all time
It is. But it's also the biggest Jew ever. Constant repair and upkeep. Need to build roads so Romans can concur and merchants can merch. Can't have a proper fee-for-service based libertarian society because 'muh roads'.
your mum likes the plough
The motor is the most important invention. Without it, trading would be fucking difficult, and then the economy would have been anyway near the same - and then you'd been a poorfag.
alcohol
it made potentially dangerous water drinkable
"Cool" category: transistors.
Real shit: artificial fertilizers.
That's pretty important. You need three 'straight' edges to check if one is perfectly straight.
Money was more of an evolutionary emergence than an invention. Commodity barter forced the most effective commodities for storing value (precious metals) to become the logical units of measure.
What you're thinking of is fractional reserve lending.
The knife... Fucking dumb dumbs
and you're not allowed to have one
This
This. Literally picked up the flip knife on my desk the moment I saw this thread, and thought, yep.
>artificial fertilizers
WRONG. All that did was give us a BOOM of the 3rd world populations. The REAL agricultural shit is the NORFOLK 4 crop system (Anglo once again), not only did we get an agricultural revolution as a result but and INDUSTRIAL one as well.
not for you, nigel
The wheel would be useless without roller bearings.
Also you are all forgetting abot the perforated axe head, still in use today. It was the AR-15 of the neolithic.
>american education
Soap and disinfectants in general.
Plumbing.
Imagine how shitty everyone smelled 200 years ago.
If not for them, you would be working the OP pic right now, or kicking cow shit over the fields.
>Fake tits are the worlds greatest invention.
No! -- They are getting in our eugenics-program of selecting for big-tidied gf/waifu!
Without roller bearings the wheel cannot carry significant weight without wearing through the axle. Dumb spic.
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fucking shills
walk around then without it faggot
I put that in there to trigger you fags.
I'd say the zipper and velcro considering just how much it's being used today
Cotton Gin. The societal impacts were enormous and long lasting.
Pretty much anything ballistics related has always been a revolutionary breakthrough in terms of war, from a simple sling to ICBMs.
did his legs come off?
>Without roller bearings the wheel cannot carry significant weight
cargo trains don't use roller bearing, mutt
for me? its the big mac.
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The societal impacts were enormous and long lasting.
The toilet
I believe so.
Looks like his back was crushed.