If you jumped through a portal back to the year 1300AD

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What modern day inventions do you think you would have the ability/knowledge to recreate and show people?

Me and my friends were talking about this in the pub yesterday and it was sad just how useless we would be. Pizza was about the best thing we could come up with.
 
Pretty much all of them, as I carry this at all times:

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Something Flashy to make them think i'm a GOD. And then some mints for all the women who are now my sex slaves.
 
I think teaching them to boil drinking water.

Also, I would request a royal audience with Edward I as he was on the throne then and I have an interest in his reign. He would likely tell me to do one but there you go.
 
crude knowledge of a aerofoil and some physics basics.

Standardized manufacturing (as an idea), how to make steel (roughly) and the basics of the steam engine, fundamentals of the atom, and a very rough idea on the periodic table and how to isolate some elements (using mercury to get pure oxygen etc) the basics of a chemical electric cell, and a mechanical generator, oh and a motor (even if only the mercury one)


oh and I'd make sure not to tell them e=mc^2.

Wouldn't be useful for centuries at a bare minimum but not something I'd want them knowing.

if given access to something like the royal society I reckon i could give them enough information for the real geniuses to make some major headway.
 
Tefal said:
if given access to something like the royal society I reckon i could give them enough information for the real geniuses to make some major headway.
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You would likely have been burned at the stake for heresy and being a charlatan.

You could even have been made a saint as a result.

St Tefal of Wales.
 
Tefal said:
if given access to something like the royal society I reckon i could give them enough information for the real geniuses to make some major headway.
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This is a good point we must hold so much info on modern principles and technology. That to such a group you could advance stuff at an alarming rate, even if they are just crude drawings.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
You would likely have been burned at the stake for heresy and being a charlatan.

You could even have been made a saint as a result.

St Tefal of Wales.
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**** a daffodil or a leak St Tefal's day where everyone wears a slice of toast to work.:D

What was the tech level like 700 years ago?

Cause tbh my main bet would to to go to the military and try to improve their weapons.

If they idea hadn't already been thought up by then, I would win some major kudos with the navy by suggesting they line the hulls of wooden warships with copper to get a major speed increase and help then fight whoever they;re currently fighting :p

Make a good bed with the military and the king. The religious groups can't touch you :p
 
Tefal said:
What was the tech level like 700 years ago?

Cause tbh my main bet would to to go to the military and try to improve their weapons.
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Fairly basic as you can imagine.

Hand held weapons blunt and edged such as maces and swords. Distance weapons such as the bow and ballista, siege weaponry such as rams and mangonels.

Although gunpowder was invented hundreds of years previously its use in cannon was not in operation.

As for naval tech, the first iron clad ship would not be invented for over 500 years.

Also, at that time in 1300, Wales had been pacified by the forces of Edward I after a quite ruthless campaign against them.

Edward I and The Forging of Britain is an excellent read.
 
A Zippo.

This is a good point we must hold so much info on modern principles and technology. That to such a group you could advance stuff at an alarming rate, even if they are just crude drawings.
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I have always thought this. Imagine Einstein with the current knowledge of physics as his starting point instead of the very basic laws he had back then.
 
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