The other day I was cleaning out a closet - more like rearranging it, really - and I found a small can of paint. So I got to thinking, somebody must have invented paint. Somewhere, some time, some dude thought that it would be a good idea to coat a piece of wood in a layer of stuff that would keep it from getting wet or keep bugs away. But that had to have been so long ago, thousands of years. We know who invented the light bulb, but there's no way we'd ever know who invented paint.
Thinking further, I wondered what other ubiquitous things had to have been invented by people we're never going to know.
Forks
Soap
Mayonnaise
Thread
Coasters - the kind you put under glasses
Ink
Boat oars
Fences
Hammers
Erasers, either chalkboard erasers or the ones on the end of a pencil
Buttons and button holes
Wire
This is the kind of thing that occupies my day.
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envelopes,earrings,stir sticks,shoe laces and hole punches....... Your day is like a game.
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