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Reply #30 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 6:27pm
 



A wheel in  ancient Australia may not have been a lot of use.
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Reply #31 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 8:14pm
 

The Remote Control.
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Reply #32 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 8:22pm
 
miketrees wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 6:27pm:
A wheel in  ancient Australia may not have been a lot of use.


A telescope would have been more useful.
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Reply #33 - Sep 25th, 2016 at 8:24pm
 
miketrees wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 6:27pm:
A wheel in  ancient Australia may not have been a lot of use.


The goon bag did ok tho
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Reply #34 - Sep 26th, 2016 at 1:49am
 
freediver wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 6:03pm:
John Smith wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 11:32am:
Lionel Edriess wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 11:09am:
The weapon - in two ways.


what weapon? ... early on rocks and sticks were used as weapons often because they were handy. No one invented them. They were later developed into spears, arrows etc with necessity.


All patents must cover a method, not an item. That is the nature of invention.


Early Aboriginals used to throw a rock or spear and call out 'BANG' - then some tribal whiz invented the silencer and they just threw them...

Now that's inventiveness..... Ape Man's spear had the silencer fitted.... and even more importantly - the stealth features....
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Reply #35 - Sep 26th, 2016 at 1:58am
 
The gift.
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Reply #36 - Sep 26th, 2016 at 1:59am
 
YES!
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Reply #37 - Sep 26th, 2016 at 4:27am
 
The ability to make fire was what would have started it all. I would imagine that the discovery was made during lightning strikes or some form of combustion from natural occurrences. Then, humans would have found out how to make their own fire, probably by accident at first. Then, later, knowing what it took to spark that flame.

Lots of inventions would have consequently been founded as a result of such a cave man discovery. You can't imagine a society that could go without it, or work as a result of not having inventions that were inspired by the discovery of creating fire.
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Reply #38 - Sep 26th, 2016 at 7:14am
 
I nominate the Housewife as having been the most important early invention.

It freed up the men to loiter and idle away their time until their next hunting expedition.

The invention of the Housewife saw all the work being done by the women after that time. Fetching water, cooking, carrying the loads between camps, fossicking for berries, nuts, and grubs ...

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Reply #39 - Sep 26th, 2016 at 7:44am
 
miketrees wrote on Sep 25th, 2016 at 6:27pm:
A wheel in  ancient Australia may not have been a lot of use.


I remember it didn't even get you far in the 1950s
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