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maybe_babymaybe_baby
in Not Sports Related
Why wasn't there any engineers before the fourteenth century.

Weird thought to have at 3 am but that's how I am.

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  • tangoflashtangoflash
    Because they were all burnt at the stake for witchcraft............
  • Brendan_O_ConnellBrendan_O_Connell
    maybe_baby said:

    Why wasn't there any engineers before the fourteenth century.

    Weird thought to have at 3 am but that's how I am.

    They were all in hospital being treated for smoke inhilation after using the covered end toilets and Ye Old Valley.
  • RiscardoRiscardo
    When did the engine arrive from Outer Space?
  • DRFDRF
    Because the grammar police got them?
  • maybe_babymaybe_baby
    Brilliant answers...but totally wrong.
  • soapy_jonessoapy_jones
    Gotta be summit about the black death
  • ValleyGaryValleyGary
    Kanu?
  • CharltonKerryCharltonKerry
    edited November 2013
    soapy_jones said:

    Gotta be summit about the black death

    From memory Black Death was 1665, I thought engineers where used to build the pyramids, but I am properly wrong on both counts as its that sort of day. Told you i was having an off day soapy ;-0 The word engineer wasn't invented until the early 14th century although "engineers jobs" where about way well before then.

  • falconwood_1falconwood_1
    They were too busy trying to work out which Back to The Valley dinner to go to?
  • soapy_jonessoapy_jones
    CharltonKerry said:

    soapy_jones said:

    Gotta be summit about the black death

    From memory Black Death was 1665, I thought engineers where used to build the pyramids, but I am properly wrong on both counts as its that sort of day.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/black_01.shtml

    not sure about pyramids, I thought they were built by aliens...
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  • adamtheaddickadamtheaddick
    Engine wasnt invented til steam was used surely.. In the 1800s??
  • Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    adamtheaddick said:

    Engine wasnt invented til steam was used surely.. In the 1800s??


    That was the steam engine.

    The word "Engines" had been around for ages before that. What the Romans had were called war engines ie the siege towers or big catapults you see in the film Gladiator.

    My guess is the the word "engineer" wasn't coined until the 14th century
  • maybe_babymaybe_baby
    Spot on Henners...but even then it only pertained to war machines.
  • maybe_babymaybe_baby
    adamtheaddick said:

    Engine wasnt invented til steam was used surely.. In the 1800s??

    adamtheaddick said:

    Engine wasnt invented til steam was used surely.. In the 1800s??

    This has some credence as people who worked on railways were called engineers.

  • soapy_jonessoapy_jones
    So nothing to do with people coughing, sneezing, getting covered in boils and carted off dead to massive plague pits then?

    BORING!!!
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    edited November 2013
    because they were all artificers
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