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The Wiki Man

We put a man on the moon before wheels on suitcases. What else are we missing?

2 March 2019

9:00 AM

2 March 2019

9:00 AM

The Romans never invented the stirrup. It took 50 years after the invention of canned food for someone to invent the can opener. And we put a man on the moon before we put wheels on suitcases.

This seems silly. But it is worth understanding each invention in context: often, a concatenation of other events has to occur before an invention can become widely adopted.

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