The stirrup, which gives greater stability to a rider, has been described as one of the most significant inventions in the history of warfare, prior to gunpowder.
Posted on 02/27/2025 5:15:07 AM PST by buwaya
So why isn’t the Philippines a great nation? I would suspect that it was because they were too busy eating one another until Europeans taking over the world helped them out. Why isn’t Spain or any European nation a great nation anymore? I would say that it’s because they don’t have a great Constitution and the ruling classes, unbound by a supreme law, keep the people as serfs and peons. You should thank God for America for not being a slave serf.
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The stirrup, which gives greater stability to a rider, has been described as one of the most significant inventions in the history of warfare, prior to gunpowder.
True. But one and done, in its way. People adapted. There was no flood of innovation consequent to it, other than in some military tech and tactics.
Great! What do you have? Mine is a G4003G Gunsmith lathe from Grizzly. It weights about 2,000 pounds and is really nice. I also have one of their cheaper mill/drills, which is a bit of a nuisance. The DRO helped it a lot.
"The stirrup was invented in the Chinese Jin dynasty during the 4th century, was in common use throughout China by the 5th century, and was spread across Eurasia to Europe through the nomadic peoples of Central Eurasia by the 7th or 8th century.[3][4]"
IOW, just another jealous America hater.
Except they don't.
So your argument is not reality based because humans do not jump through their little hoops like you think they should.
“Early Engineering Reminiscences (1815-40) of George Escol Sellers” edited by Eugene S. Ferguson is the other book I was trying to think of. Sellers was blessed with a prominent and intelligent extended family, a childhood spent in a then-impressive Philadelphia, and a prodigious memory. It is a chatty, fascinating little book on a wide range of mechanical interests from coinage, to papermaking, to steam locomotives, etc... with many personalities (including his artistic Peale relatives) and a trip to an intensely inventive England thrown in. A fun read.
I have some machine shop books from the turn of the century. They are important to the manual shop, but contain universal information for machining. They are better written than any modern work.
They dont?
“So your argument is not reality based because humans do not jump through their little hoops like you think they should.”
They absolutely do. Seen it my whole career. Its why old farts like me become obsolete.
Is liesure the mother of invention? Or war? Or neither?
The nature of tech is that its a collective enterprise. Any little thing that works better is instantly copied. We stand on the shoulders of giants, but also on huge piles of dwarfs.
Sorry but the reality is that basically every thing you are promoting is completely incorrect or, at best, incomplete.
I am sure you did make a career out of selling hokum mixed with bunk and a side order of poppycock. Lots of people do.
Dude, try sell your allegedly maintainable 1990s c++ code these days.
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