Posted on 10/04/2025 7:14:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
1:40 The heavy plough.
3:02 Eyeglasses.
4:28 Rotating three-field system.
6:02 Windmill post.
7:31 Magnetic compass.
9:00 Trebuchet.
11:10 Flying buttress.
13:13 Astrolabe.
15:15 Clockwork.
18:09 Gothic rose window. 10 Medieval Inventions So Advanced We Still Can't Beat Them | 22:54
Medieval Wisdom | 56.9K subscribers | 143,125 views | August 21, 2025
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The Machine That Made Us is a documentary in which Stephen Fry examines the story behind the first media entrepreneur, printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg, to find out why he did it and how, a story that involves both historical inquiry and hands-on craft and technology. Fry travels across Europe to find out how Gutenberg kept his development work secret, about the role of avaricious investors and unscrupulous competitors and why Gutenberg's approach started a cultural revolution. He then sets about building a copy of Gutenberg's press.Johann Gutenberg: Creator Of The First Printing Press
(Full Stephen Fry Documentary) | 59:27
Perspective | 493K subscribers | 79,367 views | June 7, 2021
Yeah, I'm of an age that I notice young folks looking at me that way. OTOH, I get offered free cuts in the checkout lane, and today even got a break at the can and bottle return machines.
My 1st husband was a PE-a very good one-he and I both grew up on small family ranches in a remote area with little exposure to big cities before we went to college. He had a 160 IQ and loved to solve construction problems and make/build practical things from a very early age. Humans have never been dumb-I’m sure there were high IQ individuals who liked to make tasks more efficient, productive, etc since there was a group of humans who set up a hunting/gathering co-op and living space in a cave during the last ice age, someplace in Europe or Asia-no ancient aliens required-just my dos centavos...
No, those people really were that smart.
Glass was a discovery. It is what one gets when a hot campfire id built upon sand.
The astrolabe is the predecessor of the sextant, which is considerably more accurate and easy to use.
...can too.
Thanks mairdie! For one thing, the music was better.
Just my thoughts, which are no better or worse than yours.
https://youtu.be/6X7OwQ4AtTE
Italian Portraits - Early Venetian Lute Music
To add to your link of the clip of "University Challenge" portion of the 'Bambi' episode of the British Comedy 'The Young Ones', showing when they race to station to the soundtrack of the special guest musicians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR3xwENK7Jo&list=RDwR3xwENK7Jo&start_radio=1
And when Vyvyan loses his head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcoWdrerLdU
Fascinating! ...not all that surprising, but fascinating notwithstanding.
The list does not include the Phased Plasma rifle in the 40 watt range. It was forgotten during the Dark Ages...
Why didn’t Johann Gutenberg just buy himself an inkjet printer? He could have ordered one online...
#43 democrats in the area mucked things up and we kept being sent into the dark ages.
The last 2 hundred years there has been an explosion of inventions that made life so much better then the hundreds of thousands before. What changed?
The United States of America came to be then the telegraph and railroad that moved information around and goods and people. England is an island nation not easily invaded and the USA more so. We also had the right gov’t invented.
He would have, but the only computer place in town was the Apple Store, and it was literally selling apples.
The Zohar, a central text of Kabbalah, predicts that in the 600th year of the sixth millennium—specifically between 1839 and 1840 CE—the “gates of wisdom” from above (Kabbalah) and the “wellsprings of lower wisdom” (science, technology, and secular thought) would open, preparing the world for the Messianic Era.
I’d say the horse collar had greater effects than the trebuchet.
Better staying power, anyway, thanks to gunpowder.
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