September 02, 2010 02:39PM
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Jammer Wrote:
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> 1) Invented deep well drilling circa 2600BCE (2400
> years before any evidence of it),
The other points have been addressed endlessly. This one has as well but I have a new argument to support it.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Things are invented to fullfill needs moreso than any single other cause. Of copurse to a large extent there's the knowledge and often technology required to invent something. Aviation would still be in its infancy without the windtunnel and logic which made it possible. Electric motors wouldn't be invented before the concept of electricity was understood.
It's likely no one had any pressing need for the drill other than the Egyptians. One has to know there's something in the ground they want or have the desire to get underground before such drilling will be invented in all probability. The more they cleared around the natural geyser the more water came up. This was a very powerful inducement to invent the drill which is exactly what they did in 3500 BC. Are we to believe that one day the king was staring at a granite rock and instructed his men to invent a drill since he wanted a vase. Pottery making could easily produce any shape that was desired without a drill. There was probably another reason some one invented it.
There is, of course, some chance it was merely adapted from existing wood working technology but the evidence still shows that drilling stone was no problem for them. When youthink about it 3500 BC is pretty early for something so complex so even wood working wouldn't necessarily be expected to produce such a tool. They didn't have screws, clamps, vices and most of the other tools modern carpenters use so why would they have a drill?
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