Which one do you think was invented first??

Question

The TABLE or the CHAIR.

Alot of ppl say the table, I beg to differ they needed something to be sittin on to come up with the idea of the table. Please try to be specific as possible, cause I'm always asking this but more ppl say the table.

Answer 1

I would say the floor.  People do need something to sit on, and i think the idea of the table and chair came out of the fact that people all used to sit on the floor and eat.  I would guess however, that the chair came first.  Probably a ledge in a cave was used at first.

Answer 2

Why on earth would you need to be sitting to come up with the idea of the table?  Don't you ever walk in the door after work or school, walk past something and set your belongings down on it?  That's a table, my dear, and you didn't sit at it to use it!   A table is just something to set things on, not nessicarily "something to eat upon".  

Since both something to rest your body on and something to rest your belongings on are SO PRIMATIVE, these cannot be seen as "inventions" as much as evolutions.  An invention would be something that ONE PERSON thought up in ONE PLACE at ONE TIME.  It's a singular event.  People all over the world who had no contact with each other were sitting on things, and finding ways to evolve them into something more comfortable...  they were also setting stuff on things, and finding ways to make that thing more attractive and useable.... so I think the table and chair were NOT invented, but evolved from common ideas and common needs.  They probably happened at exactly the same time, since people have always sat, and always sat something down.

Answer 3

The table because I would think they felt that they needed to set things down on something they could reach instead of always haveing to bend and set something down on the dirty ground and a table was also like a chair to them because you can sit on a table but then they thought that they needed something they could sit on that gave support to their back, thus the chair was invented after.

Answer 4

The chair because , people used their hands to hold the food or just some rustic plates , no need for tables  

Answer 5

Depends on your definitions. Is the ground a chair when you sit on it?

Tables were originally developed (as we think of them) as work-benches and safe storage areas. Some would say the table evolved from the shelf. Chairs (including stools, but not bean bags or other large cushiony things for slouching on (which were developed much earlier from bedding piles)) followed shortly thereafter.

Answer 6

I say the chair. The first time that someone ever sat on a rock or whatever, the chair was invented.

Answer 7

It's just a guess, but I imagine that people got tired of sitting around a campfire sitting on a log and devised something a bit more comfortable.

Answer 8

Perhaps it is Chair - out of necesity.

Answer 9

Table probably wasn't designed just to sit at.  Probably designed to bring work up to a standing level and sitting was invented after the standing work was completed.

The table was first

Answer 10

Our physiology is such that without a chair of some form, we would have to either stand or lie down. I'm sure that we found that sitting on rocks was a great way to relax very early on. This much have led to creating chairs first with tables coming later as we became more sophisticated.

Answer 11

well probably neither were invented first people just would like set their stuff on something and then sit on something and people eventually started makiong tables and chairs-am i making any sense

Answer 12

The first answer is interesting.  Consider the possibility that one invention did not inspire the other.  Perhaps they came about separately and then somebody decided to put them together as a set.

But then if you don't have a table the only real reason for having a chair is if you don't want to sit on the ground.   Hmm..But then a table could have come about as an elevated workspace, so you could work while standing up.

It's likely that the modern four-legged back chair evolved over generations from sitting on a log, to maybe a stool, then to a chair with a back.  Rather than just appearing like we know it today.

Answer 13

A chair, or an object that lends itself to a similar use, provides rest to a person; a table serves to rest objects on. Although those objects are placed on a table for a person's use, I'd say providing the requirements for comfort must have had precedence over those for convenience.