What are the oldest tools still in use today, largely unchanged? We still use axes and hammers but they're quite different from the stone versions.
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Replying to @literalbanana @drethelin
the other day I tried to use a rock to break off a piece of a different rock and it didn’t work
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Replying to @literalbanana
I think an interesting middle-ground set of answers I'm also curious about is things like the screwdriver which is not ancient but hundreds of years old
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Replying to @drethelin
wait how are they manufacturing screws hundreds of years ago??
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Replying to @chc40 @drethelin
nobody will give me a straight answer as to whether there are any screws in the antikythera mechanism
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Replying to @literalbanana @chc40
pretty sure there aren't based on clickspring
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it’s not exactly a screw in the sense of screwing one hard object to another but it’s pretty windy and screwy
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regardless of naming I'm ~60% that the first screw was greek and for pumping bilgewater
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