Canoe's from 10,000 years ago are remarkably similar to what we use today as well. The Pesse canoe was a pine canoe that was found in the Netherlands, and dated to around 8000 BC -- and a modern recreation from a few years ago was tested and found to be just as seaworthy as a normal modern canoe. Like many things, the main differences between then and now is the material used.

@shannonpincombe8485

Ай бұрын

That's awesome to know. Thank you.

The SAIL is one of the overlooked inventions that has changed little over the centuries. It was the first invention to free us from the limits of muscle power.

@gabriellynch2764

Ай бұрын

A sail is just a complicated rope.

@josephthespaceman8485

Ай бұрын

Systems of sails and rigging have changed a lot over the past few hundred years and those advancements have heavily increased the range of ships and their speed allowing for big and faster ships to be constructed that can go father so I wouldn’t say it’s changed very little.

@Jay-cn3js

Ай бұрын

​@@josephthespaceman8485the exact same can be said about the wheel, yet it was in the vid. how do u explain that?

@josephthespaceman8485

Ай бұрын

Never said that I agreed with the video.

@Jay-cn3js

Ай бұрын

@@josephthespaceman8485 touche

If you bring together the thumb, forefinger and middle finger tips and put some wet clay there then bring together those fingers from the other hand and bring them together with a 60deg twist they will squish the clay into a rough six sided solid you can finesse into a cube with a few dabs. Ancient humans may have made clay cubes for centuries before the idea of adding numbers came about.

@isaacdayton4962

8 күн бұрын

A cool idea but it doesn’t add up. The fact animals can understand numbers albeit in a different way shows that the ability to count is evolutionarily advantageous. Humans more likely just have traits that allow us to go much further with math and exchanging knowledge. Language is a crazy powerful tool and it is something that doesn’t get anywhere near enough credit

0:50 - Chapter 1 - Paperclips 2:50 - Chapter 2 - Spoons 4:55 - Chapter 3 - Dice 7:20 - Chapter 4 - Brooms 9:20 - Chapter 5 - Wheels 11:10 - Chapter 6 - Rope

@nem447

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the spoilers.

People been losing valuables to dice games since before recorded history. 😂

@dianapennepacker6854

Ай бұрын

Tossing bones and stones for sure after drinking some rotted fruit that is fermenting to get drunk, or eating shroons. This video is a cop out. Paper clips... Spoons? How else would you design a spoon Simon. I haven't finished the video... What is next. Nails? Cups? Plates and bowls?

@benrockefeller6334

Ай бұрын

​​@@dianapennepacker6854You said it is a cop out, but managed to get none of the next ones right. Honestly, that's mildly sad.

2000 years from now, somebody will dig up a Nokia 3330, under 20 tonnes of rocks. And it'll still have 50% battery!

@dsxa918

Ай бұрын

I think of a lot of modern typing like this, how it might be difficult to decipher if the rules of language remain comprehensible and yet we're typing with no punctuation or possession in text.

@laurendoe168

Ай бұрын

It won't be mine; mine died after 4 hours.

@ferociousgumby

Ай бұрын

And then the phone will ring. . .

@PerfectedEvil

Ай бұрын

@@ferociousgumby Hello. Our records show that your insurance is about to expire....

@Yupppi

Ай бұрын

Made in Finland they say.

Clippy finally gets the respect he deserves

The poor axle never gets the credit it deserves.

@lotuselansteve

Ай бұрын

Axle :-)

@thedethrocker8858

Ай бұрын

Here here

@mikepierson7447

Ай бұрын

@lotuselansteve Woopsie daisy 😁

@realname2490

Ай бұрын

You know the wheel and axle are both part of the same simple machine right like did you even bother watching the video 😂

@mikepierson7447

Ай бұрын

@realname2490 oh look a troll! Do you know how to use punctuation? Did you pay any attention in elementary school?

The bag or basket was probably just as important an invention as the wheel. It allowed gatherers to collect more food than they could eat at the site and allowed hunters and fishers to bring home butchered meat from a kill instead of the whole carcas and more fish than can be carried by hand. Other than materials, the only improvement to bags or pouches are handles and closures

@Loralanthalas

Ай бұрын

It would take me about a day to get tired of putting stuff in my skirt (all little girls have used their skirts as bags, so if bags weren't around before clothing they are invented like - the day after).

@olencone4005

Ай бұрын

If I were a time traveler, I could never go past the 1600's because there were no pockets before then -- and being a cargo-pants aficionado, I have no idea what I would do without them haha! :P

@rhetorical1488

Ай бұрын

@@Loralanthalas the deer skin that would be used for clothing can just as well be sewn together to make a bag for carrying things or boiling water.

@Jessepigman69

Ай бұрын

Im sure they would have still taken the whole caracas. Organs, hide, bones all have their use.

@insaincaldo

Ай бұрын

@@olencone4005 Strap on a bunch of pouches and satchels.

"...Which wouldn't be that different from DnD anyway." Shots fired!

@KimFareseed

Ай бұрын

Roll for initiative.

@jaded_gerManic

Ай бұрын

⚔️

Ancient roman: "This is madness! Such insolence can't go unpunished!" Ancient roman: "I pull out my sword" Ancient Dungeon Master: "Make a surprise attack and roll initiative." Ancient roman: "I critically hit. Should I double my sword damage? ... ah, crap, how many centuries do we need to wait for game rules appendices to be invented?"

@chandlerwright5460

Ай бұрын

Given there were dice in Egypt, it’d be hilarious if the Egyptians of Roman time played with the theme of ANCIENT EGYPT

lol! I just saw some Roman dice for sale and thought “fake, no way they look just like the ones I use today” 😂

@Mouritzeen

Ай бұрын

It’s so strange because Roman artifacts are common enough that you can pick up a legally sold gold or silver coin for only 10 quid

@mariawhite7337

Ай бұрын

I wonder if historians have found loaded dice and how many.

@insaincaldo

Ай бұрын

@@mariawhite7337 Some of the earliest found, date back to ruined Pompeii

@rhov-anion

Ай бұрын

@@mariawhite7337 Actually, yes! Loaded dice were found in Pompeii.

@e.con.6770

Ай бұрын

They are probably still fake though.

Future archeologists will find a paperclip layer in the geological record no doubt

@Catseye189

Ай бұрын

For certain!

@jacobq.2204

Ай бұрын

"Clearly a religious artifact used in rituals" - future archeologists. Also coffee shops will be deemed religious worship centers

@richardhinshaw2116

Ай бұрын

'cause Prehistoric Venus Figurine got back.

You showed a Paperclip, but all I saw was an Optical Drive Manual Eject Tool.

@joppadoni

Ай бұрын

All i saw was Cortana's Grandad.....

@Jay-cn3js

Ай бұрын

roach clip

"Way older than think" 🤔

@monterraythehomeless

Ай бұрын

Hell YEAH we invented dice before thinking, we're based

@deadgamer21

Ай бұрын

​@@monterraythehomeless swing n miss 😂

@gunnarschaadt144

Ай бұрын

Me think newer, Gronk think older. Gronk right, way older than think ever been thinked.

@miyojewoltsnasonth2159

Ай бұрын

@@deadgamer21 Enjoyed your reply. I'm hoping he'll try to explain/justify. *Reply to:* _"swing n miss"_

@carlp.6196

Ай бұрын

Me think way old too.

I splice all the dock lines for the fleet of ships I work for. I've always loved the fact that outside of material, if a sailor from who knows how long ago saw my splices, he'd recognize them. And hopefully approve.

I still remember when the thumbnail said, "Way Older Than Think" lmao

That joke about divinination being equatable to Dungeons and Dragons was spot on. I had a great laugh

4:17 Spork has entered the chat 😂

They've designed the wheel just once and we've just been rolling with that ever since

00:43 I love the exciting music, followed by an image of a paperclip.

Ah, yes. Spoons are spoons.

Me older than think.

If you see the videos of the Royal Game of Ur, you'll see that the Sumerians used tetrahedral dice, though they surely had other types as well.

I'm surprised not so much by the dice themselves, but by the number/dot placement

One minor but sort of major design change to the spoked wheel is that the hub actually hangs on the spokes now rather than sits on the spokes.

One very important tool, one of the oldest and arguably most important is the needle. It is surprising how since the paleolythic people had needles very thin with the hole like where we put for dexterity. A simple and yet super efficient design. Super important for manufacturing clothes.

Is Simon narrating a paperclip video every other week, or it's just me?

@Marykate465

Ай бұрын

I wanna know more about the zipper trick !

@JordyValentine

Ай бұрын

​@@Marykate465you put it through the hole where the original handle/tab was on the zipper

@dedheddred1773

Ай бұрын

Just said the same thing 😂

I use paper clips to clean my bowls.

@JordyValentine

Ай бұрын

Jesus, I read that as bowels and did a double take 😂

That dice history is wild, not that they existed, but that they are practically identical in every way other than material.

@LBPHexagohn

Ай бұрын

Yeah I thought it was cool that some people back then even had the number lay out we use today for optimal distribution of averages

You're awesome n love ur concise topics that span so many things that I too am interested in! They are so well done... Thank you n keep it up!

Brilliant video that! More on this would be epic!

Nominating the pencil for a follow-up episode.

@alessandrocossa9717

Ай бұрын

And the umbrella

Hammers, axes and wedges all come to mind. Knives as well.

@LimeyLassen

19 күн бұрын

There have been a lot of specialized, interesting types of axes invented over the centuries. My favorites are the ice axe and the billhook.

Knives, pointy sticks, Axes, Shovels, Hammers, Charcoal sticks.

Designs through history never change, just like original ideas on KZread.

Messed up the thumbnail text ^^

Enjoyed!

3.5mm and 7mm audio jacks have remained unchanged for ages.

@pjeaton58

Ай бұрын

What about the 6.3mm jack and the stereo version. And the 4pole one for L +R+ Video used by historical camcorders !

@acerimmer8338

Ай бұрын

Tell that to Apple.

@Rych

Ай бұрын

@@acerimmer8338 apple haven't changed or improved the design of them, they stopped using the tech, it's not the same.

The introduction of brooms made with sorghum was a bigger deal than mentioned, partially because they were massively superior to prior brooms, which were pretty challenging to use efficiently. The story behind the sorghum broom is pretty funny, too. A farmer in Massachusetts named Levi Dickenson, who grew sorghum, had the thought to use some of it to make a broom as a gift for his wife. She liked it so much she told all her friends about it, who all wanted one. Dickenson ended up inventing one of the first mechanized processes for broom making. Later on the Shakers came up with the process for making the modern flat broom. The Northeast U.S. dominated broom manufacturing well into the 20th century.

That’s fascinating. I guess when something works as well as anything can it doesn’t ever change

Thank you for correcting the thumbnail! That was driving me crazy! ❤️

As a Norwegian-American, I had always been told that the modern paperclip was invented in Norway. During WWII, resistance fighters in occupied Norway would wear a paperclip on their clothing, as a means of identifying other resistance members, but in a way that, if questioned, could be explained away as just having a handy paperclip for when you need one. The symbol was special to Norwegians, because that's where they were invented. That was the history story I have often heard. Now I gotta go do some extra research, to see if the stories I've been told are true, or not. I usually tryst this channel to have good research, but now I don't know who to trust...

@TSIRKLAND

12 күн бұрын

Johan Vaaler was born on March 15, 1866, in Aurskog-Holand which is located in Akershus, Norway. He is usually credited with inventing the modern bent-wire style of paper clip. His original design apparently differed somewhat from the ubiquitous "gem" style we think of today, though I was unable to find out in what way. He invented it some few years before first applying for an American patent in 1901; the original invention may have been as early as five years before, more or less? Reports in the articles I found vary. It was a British inventor, working for the Gem company, that patented a machine for the making of bent-wire paperclips, in the double-oval style we're familiar with. That patent was for the machine; the paperclip it was designed to mass-produce already existed at that time.

In the Victorian Era, dice became associated with gambling, so a lot of board-games invented then used spinners instead. The spinners were numbered 1 - 6, so there was no fundamental difference.

You forgot to mention that a major upgrade on the wheel was the addition of metal on the outer diameter to increase its longevity.

It’s worth mentioning that in that game against Real Madrid, when he won MOTM and covered every blade of grass, he was fasting for Ramadan.

Paperclip abuse... ruining pants since.... dang, I forgot.

Animals invented the broom because they didn’t really want to hang around dirty humans so they subliminally used their tail to sweep some dirt while a human watched and then finally after probably a couple thousand years or more someone caught on and started sweeping their caves. Animals became happier or at least happy enough that they’d enter the cave if it was swept. Before that they just layed at the mouth of caves and constantly moved their tails in a sweeping motion. For thousands of years…..

The way the thumbnail is written is just a clever nod to how old some of these designs are

Keep on doing what you do Mr Whistler, you have bought me a lot of interest and entertainment. I love this stuff as I have to sell/market/create stuff all the time. It is so nice, just to know in such an easy wonderful format. Are you still doing 'Geo politic'? You forgot everyone's favourite little MS Office - assistant 'Clippy'.:) Funny how things in the digital space keep on failing and disappearing faster than those in the reality. :)

I absolutely hate the plastic toes used in socks, etc. It's such a pain to remove. I wish they would stop putting them in socks and underwear.

@JordyValentine

Ай бұрын

I don't think I've ever bought a pair of socks with protective plastic in the toes, didn't realise they were even sold like that

Think about Ancient Rome. A big reason why they had a modern and efficient society were ropes, wheels, gears and similar. They probably had rope factories that didn’t survive because they used ropes for everything, especially their naval fleet.

Loved the DnD part. I’ve been playing since 1981. 😂

@rovercoupe7104

Ай бұрын

Take a break dude. M

@odin4life

Ай бұрын

@@rovercoupe7104just enough to sleep. 🤣

@rovercoupe7104

Ай бұрын

@@odin4life 😎

Twisting fibres into cordage may have been done by Neanderthals too….🤔

@farrier2708

Ай бұрын

Cord is an inevitable invention. Everyone needs a method of holding up their pants. 🥳

That old two prong fork you showed was for holding something down while you cut it I don't know if they even ate off those back then

Glad they changed the wheel design, those square & triangled ones just didn't work as well for my ancestors.

That "spinning" die (+/- 6:40) I found to be quite hypnotic.

T Rexes became chickens but dice will never change, got it.

I now know why a street in my home town is Ropewalk. It had never occurred to me to wonder why. I didn't even think it was related to manufacturing. I assumed it was because of the nearby canal & a different term for a tow-path.

Personally, I prefer an angeled broom.

I love the d6 ballet!

the DND and divinity joke is TOP TIER!! lol

While sites dating back 35+45,000 years have shown the ability of. Boring holes to create beads, the one invention that was probably more important is the eyed needle. This simple creation into a sharp pointed sliver of something like bone, or plant thorns, permitted the attachment of animal skins together or to be attached ti any type of framework.

I'm a dice man myself but have ventured into paperclip with a bit of worsting/string theory. Wheels, a degree in spokecology with bikes as a thesis.

I really hope this one gets a ton of views because I want A part 2

Wow, a whole chapter dedicated to my mother in-law's vehicle

My grandma had the first metal spoon set with the rose design

Simon your the perfect history teacher

Thank you Simon! Not earth shattering or thought provoking, but good old fashioned entertainment. And interesting facts.

The modern broom has its roots in the Shakers. They made it flat, stiff and began manufacturing.

I was so happy to see a spoon on the list

thx

It was Norwegian Johan Vaaler who invented the paperclip, but due to norway not having any patent-office at the time he did not get to put a patent on the design..

This was GREAT! And, oddly enough, I just wrote out the process of making simple two-ply rope from green grass for a piece of fiction I'm working on not three days ago. So yeah, I really loved that part. :) It's interesting-- I went on a guided hike out here in the U.S.'s Southwest a few months ago to see a well-documented mammoth kill location (the Murray Springs Clovis Site), and there was a display laid out by one of the local archaeologists with actual artifacts as well as replicas, One of them was a replica of an antler-piece with two holes in it. They've always considered it a shaft-straightener; now they're beginning to wonder if it was used to make rope. Or maybe it was used for both tasks, who knows?

U can make this list alot longer. Knives, plate, mug,shoes, needle, bore, buttons are other examples. I think its very easy to find 100 more items

How about the internet? Well, I know it's still fairly recent in comparison to the rest, but do you think it will stay how it pretty much is or evolve into something *higher advance* ?

IKEA Cactus decor in the background, I have that on a shelf in my tv stand....

The intro to rope 😆☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️

the offset spoke was a substantial design change

Way older than think, huh?

@Loralanthalas

Ай бұрын

Prove they're wrong 😂

It took surprising many millennia to invent strirrups, yet bronze working was invented seemingly out of sheer luck.

way older than think !

Interesting - but I have to disagree on the comment about the spoke being the last development of the wheel. Surely the invention of the wire spoke in 1802 (GF Bauer) would be a notable change. Totally different to a standard cart-wheel type spoke, relying not on the resistance to compression, but a wire in tension is a fundamental change in the mechanics of the wheel making it lighter and more comfortable

The basic design of the wheel has never changed. My question is:- If it isn't circular and rotating about it's centre, is it a wheel? 🤔

With an elastic you can fire paperclips like a little slingshot.

I wouldn't be surprised if brooms weren't invented before wattle and daub houses.

In my days of D&D, I had a 100 sided die among my collection. Although I never really used it. I just thought it was cool.

Prehistoric "batons" with holes in them have been found. Coincidentally, I just viewed a KZread channel about it this morning. They believe they used these to make rope, quite easily and quickly.

The simple nail, has been around forever and is pretty likely whats holding your house together today.

@pjeaton58

Ай бұрын

Useful for crucifixion !

The paperclip is actually a compact folded portable version of the earwax removal tool...

@pjeaton58

Ай бұрын

Ouch !

Tension spokes are a relatively modern upgrade to the wheel. Only with the invention of carbon fiber has a conventional wheel retaken the place of a tension spoke design on the most advanced bicycles. Tension spoked wheels are still the best design available for off road motorcycle wheels as they are flexible, and resist damage better than other designs of similar weight.

I hear you about the handle making it a 'real' spoon in some sense. But if you were camping and ate soup with shell, people would say you used the shell as a spoon.

@benrockefeller6334

Ай бұрын

But the key word is "as", which by definition means that the shell is not a spoon.

shark wheels are quite the upgrade on my longboard

Thank you for updating the thumbnail. That was driving me nuts.

Trigger still has his faithful broom

While paper clips are great for everyday use, when it comes to archival storage, they tend to irreversibly damage paper overtime.

@Nolroa

Ай бұрын

That is why he refers to: “Temporary Use” not “Permanent Use” the clip is for holding paper in the short term, not for filing documents in the long term.

I would argue that the wheel HAS changed. Early wheels were tall and skinny because the vehicle was pulled by animals, and they didn't want to get hung up on the terrain. Modern wheels are short and wide for traction, because they are powered by machine. Then we modified the environment to make relatively smooth roads.

@farrier2708

Ай бұрын

......and then we added potholes in our relatively smooth roads to force driving below the speed limit.😱

I think that Tires to Wheels is like Shoes to Feet or Gloves to Hands, accessories not design changes. Adding traction, grip, comfort...

I guess I'm the odd person out here. I have no dice at all. When I pared down my life to live in an RV, I got rid of all my games except for playing cards. That included giving any game that had or used dice to friends and family. So.. no dice here (anymore anyway).

Paperclips were priceless in my stoner days. 😂