There was also the tyrant from Syracuse Dionysis that had a crowdsourcing contest which developed the first catapults in the ancient world. I wrote about this idea of contests or crowdsourcing myself. I'd call them Dionysis Projects, and open them up to the world, like an X Prize
Ah I thought that was familiar as I wrote it - now I realize it was familiar because I had read you debunking it! Fixed. Out of curiosity, can you think of any other actual prizes from that period like the longitude ones?
Ha! Well you have prizes awarded by the Dublin Society c.1720s, which are then the inspiration for creating the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 1754, as a specifically prize-giving society (often referred to as simply the Premium Society, though more usually the Society of Arts). It’s only in the 1840s that it started to pivot away from that - it’s now the RSA. Otherwise no, not many really. But I suppose the Society of Arts and the various copycat societies throughout Europe seemed to have the bases covered.
There was also the tyrant from Syracuse Dionysis that had a crowdsourcing contest which developed the first catapults in the ancient world. I wrote about this idea of contests or crowdsourcing myself. I'd call them Dionysis Projects, and open them up to the world, like an X Prize
Benjamin nooo! There was no Napoleonic prize for canning food. It’s a total myth!
Ah I thought that was familiar as I wrote it - now I realize it was familiar because I had read you debunking it! Fixed. Out of curiosity, can you think of any other actual prizes from that period like the longitude ones?
Ha! Well you have prizes awarded by the Dublin Society c.1720s, which are then the inspiration for creating the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 1754, as a specifically prize-giving society (often referred to as simply the Premium Society, though more usually the Society of Arts). It’s only in the 1840s that it started to pivot away from that - it’s now the RSA. Otherwise no, not many really. But I suppose the Society of Arts and the various copycat societies throughout Europe seemed to have the bases covered.
Are you sure they didn't say ground truth, rather than grand truth?