Why do poeple think fire is the first usefull invention??

Question

I think the first is the wheel. Nobody invented fire [exept God].

Answer 1

G'day Maritza M,

Thank you for your question.

Fire wasn't an invention but the technology for keeping it going was and a very useful one. It certainly predates the wheel as aboriginal tribes did use fire but didn't have wheels. Wheels weren't actually very useful before we domesticated animals to transport material. The controlled use of fire has been dated back very early in man's development and identified at fossil sites dating back 1.8 million years old.

The oldest tool though is probably a knife first developed in the stone age for cutting. Homo species has used tools for a couple of million years and primates and even birds such as crows have been observed using tools such as sticks but making them like using fire is a more recent development.

I have attached sources for your reference.

Regards

Answer 2

It's not that humans invented fire, just as the concept of a circle can be seen in the planets, so humans didn't invent the wheel, just used and applied the concepts of friction in their every day lives. Fire was the first and most useful invention because humans learned how to control it. Before we learned about flint and steel or other methods that created it, we could only utilize naturally made fire, such as forrest fires and lightning strikes. Fire allowed us to become civilized, meet in groups, and were central to us forming more cohesive communites.

The ability to control and create such a substance was something that really seperated us from the other animals.

Answer 3

I think you are mixed up. The first people didnt 'invent' fire they just learned how to use it and handle it as a life necessity. The wheel was an invention though unless there was a perfect cylinder rock laying around.

Answer 4

I agree that tools were the first useful "invention" but as with fire, we didn't invent rocks, we just learned how to use them to our advantage over bigger, dumber animals. The lever sounds like a good candidate for the first real invention.

Answer 5

What mankind did invent was a way of keeping fire under control so he could use it for his own purpose (but considering all the forest fires this summer, we may want to look at that again), and to make it when needed, hitting two rocks together to make a spark, rubbing sticks together, flicking your Bic, etc.

Fire could be found after lightning strikes, but using it could be difficult.

Answer 6

how on earth is a wheel more useful than fire?! fire was found/discovered as someone already said. it can be used to cook. you know, food, which is necessary for survival. there was obviously food available that did not need to be cooked, but his added more to the menu, so to speak, and food sources are necessary for survival (as i already said). the wheel gets one from point a to point b - which, as far as i know, can be done on foot, and WAS done on foot until the wheel's invention. i'm sure it was made out of stone or something and that couldn't have been all too convenient. anyway...that's my opinion. hope it helps.

Answer 7

While I would agree that the wheel is useful, I think that in regard to primitive societies, fire had a larger quantity of applications. Fire acts as a cooking element, warmth provider, light, etc where as the wheel has more limited,specific applications.

Answer 8

I personally disagree, man invented fire by rubbing sticks, God created the stick, man also created the wheel, but w/o fire there wouldnt be any warmth.... It gets mighty cold outside!

Answer 9

I agree with you. Fire was a discovery of a natural phenomena. I thing the first tool was technially a lever.

A rock thrown from the fist at the end of the arm is using leverage to increase the speed, therfore the power, of the same rock simply dropped on a prey animal.

Answer 10

It was weapons to kill animals for food: pointed sticks, sharpened stones, and throwing sticks. Without those inventions no one would have had the food energy to make any other inventions. They far precede the wheel in time and in importance.