Electric arc
TL;DR
Electric arc - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative
independently by Davy (1800, short) and Petrov (1802, long continuous arcs)
What Had To Exist First
Preceding Inventions
What This Enabled
Inventions that became possible because of Electric arc:
Independent Emergence
Evidence of inevitability—this invention emerged independently in multiple locations:
Russia
Parallel development
Biological Patterns
Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread: