Washing hands before performing another surgery when you just finished patching some soldier’s infectious wounds.
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gnu@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Electricity is a hard ask to even attempt to do in ancient times. Luckily there’s a variety of other simpler things to establish yourself as a genius inventor - strirrups, wheelbarrows, the idea of a crank handle, and how to use triangular bracing to make a strong truss would be good options.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 days ago
gnu@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
That’s one with big potential but not one to lead off with, best to wait until you’ve ‘invented’ a few obvious game changers and established your philosophic credentials before attempting to introduce basic medical hygiene…
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Maybe invent lenses and a microscope so people could see microscopic bugs.
general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
i would say metallurgy was advanced enough for some very simple generators using a lodestone and copper wire, that could then at least used as a heater or establish electrolysis to advance chemistry quite a bit, but applications would likely stay niche or just a curiosity, carbon arc lamps would maybe be possible but hard.