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23 Reddit comments about How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler:

u/awesome_cas · 18 pointsr/engineering

Have a read.

How to invent everything

It’s a fun read that takes you from prehistoric times to more modern inventions, with all of the discoveries along the way. Granted, it is rather superficial as it needs to be given the amount of material it covers. I found it fun and fascinating!

The premise is that it’s a handbook for a stranded time traveler and tells you what you need to do to rebuild civilization.

u/tuctrohs · 14 pointsr/AskEngineers

A similar book but a little more directly matching OP's scenario is How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler. It's kind of a fluffy book that doesn't take itself seriously, but does attempt an outline of key inventions that allow advancing civilization more rapidly at each point in time.

But the information in that book is easy to absorb and more or less memorize. I'd want to condense it down to key facts, like recipes for simple chemical processes, etc., and then I'd be tempted to say I'd want some math tables, if I don't have a calculator, but I'm not quite sure how soon I'd need that.

A map of mineral deposits would be pretty useful.

u/Manticore412 · 13 pointsr/preppers

I'm curious about it and will probably still end up getting it as well as another one that always comes up in the other recommended list. How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler I'm suspecting what I've got in mind is just too big.

u/JustRuss79 · 6 pointsr/funny

I own a first edition copy of "How to Invent Everything"

It's funny and informative, and covers pesky things like electricity and antibiotics.

u/Coolbluenebulae · 6 pointsr/ancientrome

I think about this kind of stuff all the time!

I’ve had this book on my library wait list forever. Has anybody ever read it?

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler https://www.amazon.com/dp/073522014X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_LV10Cb072BQ38

u/Booksds · 5 pointsr/todayilearned

Coincidentally, I also just learned this yesterday! Read in a book called How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler

u/SunnySouthTexas · 3 pointsr/OffGridLiving

I just read the book How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North.

It addresses the same kind of thing.

Highly suggest this book, its humorous twist makes it a fun read and it covers how to set up civilization when you (the time traveler) get stranded back in history!

u/goodolbluey · 3 pointsr/mormon

This is giving me major How To Invent Everything vibes. In a good way!

If a weird looking, weirdly speaking stranger came into your village and taught your tribe actual useful principles like modern crop rotation, germ theory, celestial navigation, and movable type... why wouldn't you think they were a prophet from God? For all practical purposes they would be!

u/Desmn355 · 3 pointsr/manga

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There's the live action anime, Primitive Technology (remember to enable cc/subtitles)

The light novel, How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler


Also try tech uplift, Giving Radio To The Romans, and One Man Industrial Revolution.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/HistoryMemes
u/edudlive · 2 pointsr/HistoryMemes
u/GrinningToad · 2 pointsr/NoStupidQuestions

There is a book called "How to Invent Everything" that, supposedly, will help you restart civilization after the apocalypse.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Stranded/dp/073522014X

u/TheKramer89 · 1 pointr/Showerthoughts

There’s a pretty cool book on exactly this subject.
How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller

u/DaggerKim · 1 pointr/preppers

I haven’t bought it yet, but I think that a similar book might be:

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler https://www.amazon.com/dp/073522014X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_1SU0DbEHTXWKK

It’s worth seeing if it covers any areas that you are thinking about.

u/rnephismith · 1 pointr/exmormon

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler https://www.amazon.com/dp/073522014X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_GgpWDbET3F5JR

u/BosenHund · 1 pointr/HelpMeFind

I was looking for the wallet card, but found this

https://www.amazon.com/How-Invent-Everything-Survival-Stranded/dp/073522014X

Edit : Here it is, the cheat sheet
https://i.imgur.com/2psNjiL.png

u/AnotherPublicAlias · 1 pointr/Showerthoughts

Unless you have this book:

How To Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveller by Ryan North

Edit: I should have read the rest of the comments, first - someone else already mentioned this book.

u/Knight_Owls · 1 pointr/Showerthoughts

Take this.

u/syndicaterx · 1 pointr/Showerthoughts

There’s this book I was looking at Amazon the other day: How to Invent Everything : A Survival Guide for The Standard Time Traveler by Ryan North here