I've proposed this before. Why doesn't the college come up with the Slide Rule?
Add mechanical calculators, like the ones that became popular during the 19th century RW, to that and maths suddenly goes a lot quicker.
Perhaps the start of learned journals, perhaps with some seed ideas from an anomalous thinker naked Owl
A NAKED Owl? Do i want to know what kind of seed ideas that would be?
General Eisenhower expressed the opinion that four inventions won World War II. They were the jeep, the C47 airplane, the two-and-a-half ton truck, and the bulldozer, none of which were designed for combat.
Meh. The truck maybe. Something vastly more important however was cutting down on margins of precision. Which in turn allowed things like the Liberty ships, even when parts were not made in the same place or with the same tools, they were close enough in size that they fit together without too much trouble.
So i´ll add that as my contribution.
Have someone put together a set of standards for measuring, both the tools for measuring, the measurements, and how they are used, then make sure that everyone uses that standard as soon as possible.
As part of this, you also reduce the margins of error that is acceptable.
What it means, is that if a nut and a bolt are supposed to fit together, they WILL.
Which for example means that spare parts will nearly always fit without adjustments, which can save a LOT of time and effort.
A perfect example of not doing this, is WWII Japan. Parts and spare parts for aircrafts nearly always had to be individually fitted to aircraft, and worked on locally, even engines could often not be switched out without a lot of work.
Effectively, it doubled the amount of workhours spent on the average aircraft and caused lots of wasted parts and material.
This leads to massproduction and reliable automatic firearms among other things.
and, Mangy Fur the Smart Alick Spacecat.