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What term became synonymous with the trash can in French due to Eugène Poubelle's contribution?
What material were Poubelle's mandated Parisian refuse containers required to be made of?
In what year did the very first official recycling bins designated for paper and rags appear?
Who is credited with inventing the modern plastic wheelie bin design?
What specific type of plastic material was critical for the construction of the wheelie bin?
Besides having a lid, what feature was required for the refuse container mandated by the 1883 Paris Ordinance?
What feature defines the Wheelie Bin era compared to the Poubelle Standard era in container evolution?
What was Eugène Poubelle's official title when cited as driving the 1883 Paris sanitation regulation?
Which stage follows the "mandated, static, lidded metal vessel" in the container evolution timeline?
What major functional improvement did Robert Gray's wheelie bin primarily address over Poubelle's era bins?
What was the approximate capacity requirement in liters for the refuse receptacle mandated for every Parisian household in 1883?
What primary issue complicates identifying the very first human invention?
Which technological industry is generally associated with the oldest known stone tools, dating back roughly 2.6 million years ago?
According to the text, how did the control of fire potentially influence subsequent complex inventions?
What cognitive ability does the teardrop-shaped Acheulean hand axe primarily demonstrate over earlier tools?
If invention is defined not as an object but as a system, what is argued by many anthropologists to be the first true invention?
Which capability is proposed as cognitively more demanding and potentially preceding both complex toolmaking and complex language?
Which tool, characterized as expedient and requiring minimal knowledge, is suggested to edge out the hand axe in terms of chronological depth and ubiquity?
The Oldowan industry artifacts are characterized by what feature?
Why are foundational discoveries like language and the control of fire the least likely to leave clear, undisputed artifacts?
What concept stands as the conceptual prerequisite for all subsequent creation, allowing an early hominin to think *about* their actions?
What does the standardized, symmetrical nature of the Acheulean hand axe imply about the hominins who created it?