modeltrains
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That's a pretty bold claim, "String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions."
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-long-knotty-world-spanning-story-of-string/
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/the-long-knotty-world-spanning-story-of-string/
In a fiberless world, the age of naval exploration would never have happened; early light bulbs would have lacked suitable filaments; the pendulum would never have inspired advances in physics and timekeeping; and there would be no Golden Gate Bridge, no tennis shoes, no Beethovens fifth symphony.
Everybody knows about fire and the wheel, but string is one of the most powerful tools and really the most overlooked, says Saskia Wolsak, an ethnobotanist at the University of British Columbia who recently began a PhD on the cultural history of string. Its relatively invisible until you start looking for it. Then you see it everywhere.