On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:00:08 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote:
I think each one of those allowed riding significantly farther, faster,
more comfortably or safer compared to the technology it replaced.
And everything else I can think of caused much smaller and merely
incremental improvements.
That's the rule for everything. Lacing skins together to get a better
fit wasn't as big an improvment as wearing clothes. The eyed needle
wasn't as big an improvment over lacing as lacing was over just using
the fabric the way you found or made it . . .
and improvements after the invention of the zig-zag sewing machine are
barely detectable.
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