Name something still useful now that started before 1800 ad (1 Viewer)

[Sabertooth]

Corsets.

 

[Jayrok]

Fire

Nobody invented that either.

OP said nothing about things that were invented before 1800.. just things that are still useful now that started before 1800.

 

[ShamrockPride]

I'm gonna visit the dark side real quick here...Disease & Famine. Keeps dat population in check.

 

[kentric]

The fork. Imagine not being able to say, "Put a fork in it". That's a material invention right there.

 

[Fennis]

Child labor

 

[TenTimes]

Thanksgiving. Somehow only gets better every year.

 

[Fennis]

Search function on footballguys

 

[MikeIke]

Search function on footballguys

It specifically says useful

 

[kentric]

Thanksgiving. Somehow only gets better every year.

Wasn't Thanksgiving introduced during Lincoln's presidency?

eta. realized how lazy that was not looking up.

From wikipedia:

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has been celebrated as a federal holiday every year since 1863, when, during the Civil War, PresidentAbraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens", to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November.[1] Thanksgiving was also celebrated nationally in 1789, after a proclamation by George Washington.[2] As a federal and public holiday in the U.S., Thanksgiving is one of the major holidays of the year. Together with Christmas and New Year, Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.

The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in 1621.[3] This feast lasted three days, and it was attended by 90 Native Americans (as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow)[4] and 53 Pilgrims.[5] The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating "thanksgivings"—days of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.[6]

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Helmets

 

[MC Gas Money]

Fire

Nobody invented that either.

OP said nothing about things that were invented before 1800.. just things that are still useful now that started before 1800.

Then I nominate water

 

[TheIronSheik]

The Internet

 

[Jayrok]

Fire

Nobody invented that either.

OP said nothing about things that were invented before 1800.. just things that are still useful now that started before 1800.

Then I nominate water

excellent choice.

 

[Statcruncher]

The Internet

Gore wasn't born before 1800.

 

[Apple Jack]

wheel/simple machines, fire, blow job, tacos

/thread

 

[MC Gas Money]

wheel/simple machines, fire, blow job, tacos

/thread

I call thus saturday night

 

[EYLive]

Pointy sticks.

 

[Hov34]

Thermometer (mercury) - 1724

Fire Extinguisher - 1722

Submarine - 1776

Bi-Focal eyeglasses - 1780

Circular Saw - 1780

Parachute - 1785

Bicycles - 1791

 

[Keith R]

Men's clothes.

 

[msommer]

Telescopes

Calculus

Guns

Scales

Compass