and why did they invent it in the 1st place and is it something that is still used today?
2007-01-05 02:20:36 · 22 answers · asked by mistress_cat_in_boots 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Technically God CREATED the world he didnt invent it.
2007-01-05 02:31:34 · update #1
I would agree it would be the caveman using a stick or a stone as an implement. God didn't invent the world, he created it, which is a different thing.
2007-01-05 02:33:50 · answer #1 · answered by Peter H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how picky you get about "invention" vs "discovery", but I'd say the very first was "club" invented by a caveman when he picked up a tree-branch and hit either an adversary or prey. Fire may have preceded club, but it's a bit trickier. If the caveman rubbed two sticks together and got a fire started, did he discover fire or invent a way of making it? Finding a fire started by lightning and keeping it going probably predated the two sticks and may have predated the club, but is finding the fire a discovery or is keeping it going an invention?
2007-01-05 08:02:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In two hundred years of existence, the U.S. Patent Office has issued nearly five million patents, which together document the greatest industrial development in human experience.
How did it all start? To whom and for what was the first U.S. patent issued?
Samuel Hopkins, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [Pittsford, Vermont], received Patent No. 1 on July 31, 1790, for an improvement "in the making Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process." The patent was signed by President George Washington, Attorney General Edmund Randolph, and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. Only two other patents were granted that year, one for a new candle-making process and the other the flour-milling machinery of Oliver Evans.
2007-01-06 04:36:04 · answer #3 · answered by FUGAZI 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chimps use tools - they strip the leaves off of twigs and then use the twig to root around inside termite holes to get at the juicy fat termites, which they then eat.
This qualifies as an 'invention' as it involves adaption of a natural resource to make a tool for a specific purpose.
On this basis, the first invention was likely to have been invented long before the people we call 'cavemen' were around
2007-01-05 02:37:24 · answer #4 · answered by SeabourneFerriesLtd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His name was Eegah, an early Neanderthal in the Rhine Valley in France. His invention was accidental. He threw a stone at another neanderthal who was grunting at his woman. The stone cut the guy's forehead,
Curious, Eegah picked up the stone and examined it. He saw it had a sharp edge. After years of trial and error, he realized that he would have better accuracy if he stopped throwing the stone and kept it in his hand when he wanted to cut someone. The first razor was born,
2007-01-05 02:32:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the wheel is far from the earliest invention. In the history of humanity, the wheel is recent. It is not known for sure what the first invention was, ...
2007-01-07 08:43:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God, he invented the world. As far as I know, it's still in use today.
2007-01-05 02:24:23 · answer #7 · answered by green_guy 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God invented the World, yup, it is still used today.
2007-01-05 02:28:50 · answer #8 · answered by turtl3e 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Rite, it gotta be the guy who invented God ? or are we at a
chicken and egg syndrome ??
could have been the wheel !! no patent,no name !!
2007-01-05 10:14:27 · answer #9 · answered by landgirl60 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With the uncertainty about the wheel, some kind of stone or flint knife comes to mind, perhaps even a pointed stick
2007-01-05 03:05:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋