It's obscene to me just how much has been engineered since the steam engine. How the fuck do things get figured out? Learn the underlying math/physics/chemistry and ideas just spring to mind?
It's either an individual and his trial and error, or a person/group incrementing on prior incremental work.Imagine how bored you would be without video games, or the internet, or any screen. You're an autistic limp wrist so no sports or soldiering for you. Tinkering with shit it is.
>>109941327It was ayyyyliums
>>109941362It's also frequently like this>initial prototype is just a big clumsy forced attempt at making X do Y>100 years of refinement, optimization turn it into a compact well oiled machine, which seems impossible to come up with as a one offbecause it is
i think industrialisation and electrification have made our lives comfortable enough to allow for spending way more time on research and development over just working to live. things really snowballed once we didn't have to constantly think about when we'll be able to eat next
>>109941327People are inventive, at least smart people. Also major reason for fast progress is also population explosion since industrial revolution, more people means more smart people looking to figure things out and invent solutions to problems, but also standardised education making village peasants learn about all the possible subjects before specialisation.
