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[-] pozbo@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

My favorite technology is bronze smelting.

What about you guys?

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 years ago

My favorite is any system for writing. That's when we started sending actual information into the future. An argument could be made for art on cave walls, and that does communicate with future humans, but the meaning is interpreted rather than dictated.

[-] markr@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

But it isn’t. Culture and technology was transmitted into the future for millennia prior to writing was developed.

[-] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 years ago

Personally I'm more of an irrigation fanboy. I just love an efficient way to get water to my crops.

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

The plow. The greatest of all inventions.

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

I personally feel the trebuchet is the pinnacle of engineering, which is the superior siege weapon.

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Ah, but how did the designer of the first trebuchet have time to perfect their design? Someone else grew extra food for them. How did the farmer produce this surplus bounty? By using the plow!

But you're right, the trebuchet is indeed the superior siege weapon.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 2 years ago

Pff, where's my lever gang at?

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Where my fulcrum bros at

[-] pozbo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

They're fighting the inclined plane gang

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Screw them, they're going downhill.

[-] pozbo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

They're attached via an inclined plane wrapped helical around an axis.

[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

I like cement. Roman cement with quicklime. Shit cracks on the limestone flakes which erode and re-calcify within all the micro-fractures. Fuckin Romans were mad smart.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Do you smelt bronze from bars or can you smelt directly from ores?

[-] blackluster117@possumpat.io 4 points 2 years ago

I'm a pretty big fan of food preservation. Ancient methods like smoking and pickling, to modern ones like freeze drying. Shout out Steve1989MREInfo!

[-] RocksForBrains@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Huge fan of lead refinement.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Laden or unladen?

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

Typewriters and fountain pens for me.

this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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