Status Updates From Ancient Egyptian Technology...

"To take another recent example of socially determined trajectories in technology, the 20th-century dominance of the gasoline-powered car, as opposed to electrically powered vehicles, can be seen to have its origins not in decisions made on the basis of pure efficiency but in the economics of early 20th-century gender relations – thus women drivers clearly preferred electric cars, but it was primarily men...

Fascinating discussion of the difference between our "inventor" mindset, where we are interested in WHO invented something, vs the AE mindset in which **the invention** itself was the point of interest -- didn't matter who came up with it.
This is what made the Egyptians the Japanese of their day. They didn't invent much, but they vastly improved on everybody else stuff.