Historical Tech Tree • Hacker News Board

My particular interest is in screw cutting lathes, and it appears that the Wikipedia entry[1] (on which this seems to be based) was off by about 25 years (1775 instead of 1800), and thus copied to this work. I've let the folks at Wikipedia know.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw-cutting_lathe

Re: Historical Tech Tree

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Post by throwanem » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:16 PM UTC

spawarotti wrote: post #7

And a related page, in the other direction: https://www.futuretimeline.net/

In what sense related?

Re: Historical Tech Tree

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Post by fellowniusmonk » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:20 PM UTC

It's funny that there are so many innovations right now the recent part of the chart just has to arbitrarily exclude an insane amount of stuff innovation that's happening.

No HIV vaccine. mRNA vaccine get's a single entry instead of vaccine per disease like prior vaccines. No battery stuff since 1985. Just amazing, fractal improvement is everywhere.

Re: Historical Tech Tree

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Post by sizediterable » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:25 PM UTC

Highly recommend the Dr. Stone anime if you're interested in a story with the premise of starting civilization from scratch but armed with the sum total of modern human knowledge about science and engineering.

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Post by andrewmutz » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:26 PM UTC

These paradox games are getting out of control

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Post by dawnofdusk » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:29 PM UTC

Pretty cool. Makes me think if we're overdue for another 1960s era tech boom?

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Post by Difwif » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:37 PM UTC

Looking forward to the new Civilization mod that uses this.