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Erik Brown's avatar

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

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Anton Howes's avatar

Benjamin nooo! There was no Napoleonic prize for canning food. It’s a total myth!

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