Who invented

wolram

The every day things in the home, the bath, toilet, cooker, carpet, table, chairs, paint, bed,
cup and saucer, knife, spoon , fork, etc, etc.
Given that your TV, computer, radio are luxuries, how much do we owe to Modern invention in the home.

mgb_phys

They all pretty much evolved ( were created if you live in Louisiana) out of cruder natural items.
So the difficulty is defining when it stopped being a mound of moss and became a bed, or stopped being a bit of metal/rock and became a knife.

DaveC426913

Also, they were invented before people thought to keep track of - and give credit to - people who invented stuff.

(Those who track stuff now are the same people who brought us the 'instant classic!' and 'collector's item!' mentality.)

waht

Ancients Greeks had baths, and possibly Pharaohs of Egypt too.

The table must have evolved from when the cavemen realized they could put something on a large stone, or a collapsed tree.


Paint dates back to cave paintings. I think Neanderthals painted drawings in Spain dating back to 30,000 BC.

rewebster

that's too much to think about--it makes my head hurt----those things are way too complex to figure out---so, I'm going to just go for an answer so I don't HAVE to think so hard to try to understand it all---


----"ID"

Evo

Screens on windows to keep bugs out.

DaveC426913

I imagine the table would have evolved shortly after the chair. I think the modern "feature" of a table is that it has room under it to allow people to be seated at it with their legs in front of them.

rewebster

and right after that, the first argument over "who took the big piece of chicken?"

edward

Not all modern conviences were invented or evlolved without some mishaps and even religious misgivings.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A15826179


THE HISTORY OF KITCHEN APPLIANCES

http://inventors.about.com/od/kstart.../a/kitchen.htm

Many of the items we use daily went though a series of improvements.

hypatia

The cup and saucer came from Japan, along with the tea. The first cups had no handles, much like the cups still used today in Japan. By 1840 we added the handles, and the cups became finer. Saucers were deep, because the fashion of the day required tea drinkers to pour the hot tea into the saucer, let it cool a bit then drink it out of the saucer. It was called saucering your tea. What to do with your empty cup? Why put it on a Cup Plate of course.

WarPhalange

So what did people drink out of before cups? Bowls?

DaveC426913

Streams.

phyzmatix

Paperclips?

rewebster

there was something on TV about that--it was some guy playing with a wire while waiting for a trolley, I believe

phyzmatix

Waiting for a trolley?

rewebster

it was back in the teens or twenties went just about every town had them and interurbans of some sort (like the Red Line in CA--)

phyzmatix

*ping*...of course!

(I probably shouldn't even admit this, but I had difficulty understanding why someone would sit and wait for a shopping trolley )