To wonder how some things were invented?

[malificent7]

I love knitting and crochet but who looked at a sheep and thought to spin the wool into yarn and then use hooks/ needles to create clothes?! I know the process evolved rather than being the brainchild of a single person but still.

Also tv/ internet. How do pictures end of on thesescreens seemingly out of nowhere?!

Care to add any more?

How old are you? It was around in the 11th century.

Another vote for meringue.

How the bloody hell did someone come up with the idea of separating the egg white and yolk then manually whisking the white - presumably before the egg whisk was invented. Then work out how to cook it.

Sadly for @neverknowinglyunreasonable there are clearly a number of people on this thread who have missed the invention of humour.

I think about space too.

And the space between atoms and within atoms. It completely blows my mind that ‘stuff’ is mostly made of nothing. So why does my tea not come out of the mug, and why does the mug stay on the table and not go through it, and why is down down anyway, what’s gravity and more important ‘why is gravity’? Science makes my head explode!

Fair enough: I'm dreamy, not techy 😚 It's still so clever though, innit?

I get things like Milk and bridges as like others they were born from necessity. We forget these days what hunger and disease are (well, lots of us in the western world do) and what that can drive you too.

Meringues though. Who kept going through that arm ache and then decided to cook it!?!

These kind of random thoughts lead me to googling at 4am who invented (insert random item here) and then being annoyed I'm tired the next day 🤣

Eh? Who was she then?

I always find it interesting that the English word 'window' is very different from French and German because ours comes from Old Norse whereas they went with the Latin word.

We use the word "fenestration" though.

Not an invention,but I have occasionally wondered who thought it would be a good idea to eat something that a chicken had squeezed out of its bum. 😂

@sashh that video is brilliant! I've subscribed to him now.

How did anyone realise that kidney beans stopped being poisonous if you soaked them overnight, then boiled the pants off them for an hour?

Isn't that evolution? The ones who didn't soak or boil them, died, so couldn't pass on their tips to others!

Ooh my sort of thread. I wonder about this sort of thing aaaallll the time. How did alcohol get started - that may be simpler. But what about cheese?? Yoghurt? Who would want to eat mouldy blue cheese (which I can’t stand anyway)??

Knitting isn’t knotting btw, it’s a system of intertwined loos. I think knotwork in all its variations must be a lot earlier. I tend to think crochet must pre date knitting because you only deal with one stitch at a time, whereas the multiple loops in knitting seem more complex, but how anyone figured out how to create a single thread to knit with… Peg looms probably came before spinning proper as you can use raw hanks in them.

I know a teensy bit about the development of textile machines but nothing about earlier stuff!

Intertwined loops. Ceramic thread for loos is something else again!

Mead was the first alcoholic drink - and alcohol makes water safer to drink so I guess the knowledge got passed down through the bloodline that didn’t die of Ebola?!

But getting everyone in the country to agree, that doesn't happen now. That's why generally in English we add an 's' to make a plural. But we didn't always and odd words have the 'en' ending instead, children, women.

The ‘en’ ending for plurals is the same in Dutch and is probably an early form of the language, given the importance of those specific words. The trouble with English is that it is effectively a combination of languages, given the restrictions put on its use after the conquest and with the sheer number of different language communities in Britain after the collapse of Rome.

Cod liver oil - what shall we do with this bit of a fish?
(Just google image searched fish liver - not recommended)

I love thinking about these things and how different brains and talents drive the species forward.

My dh would have loped about tasting anything and discovering unlikely gems like cheese and beer. He’s very much a scrape-off-the-mould on the jar that’s been in the fridge for 6 months kind of person. I’m more cautious and my ancestors probably discovered cooking because my first instincts on these grim discoveries are to set fire to the fridge.

Yes I often think there's so many things in the world that I consider to be so complex that I couldn't even begin to understand them. Yet the same things to another person is really basic entry level stuff.

Yes, I reckon a lot of discoveries and inventions started off with people dying from the unsafe alternatives

Once fire existed I guess starving humans tried to cook everything. Some died from trying poisonous stuff. Some cooked edible things, then survived and could communicate to their children who had lots of kids and passed the knowledge on. So luck then natural selection like lot of things

I always wonder how people found out they could get flour from wheat. That to me is really odd.

Who invented vegan meringues made from the liquid from tinned chicken peas ?

Cake!

Firstly you've got to grow wheat, grind it and invent flour, grow sugar beet and extract the sugar and milk a cow, invent a churn, separate the cream and make butter...

Then you've got to use something that came out of the bum of a hen...