5 Ancient Inventions That Were WAY Ahead Of Their Time | Answers With Joe

in ancientinventions •  5 years ago 




From napalm flamethrowers to an analog computer, the ancient world was far more clever and technologically advanced than we think it was. Here are 5 ancient inventions that were way ahead of their time.

Hero of Alexandria built a steam engine 2,000 years before the industrial revolution.

The Byzantines in Constantinople developed a napalm flamethrower they called Greek Fire.

Muslim armies in the crusades fought with a steel alloy that wouldn't be reproduced for 1000 years called Damascus Steel.

A clay pot called the Baghdad Battery discovered in modern day Iraq could possibly have been a galvanic cell electric battery.

And the famed Antikythera Mechanism was an analog computer featuring technology that wouldn't be seen again for 1500 years.

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I think that though they were invented then, it did not really fit in to the technology of that time. Just like now, maybe, the blockchain might not be able to fit into our current technology but, who knows what would happen with it in the future?