12 Modern Things That Had Long Before Us (Photo)

1. Prothesis and plastic surgery, 3000 BC

The first attempts to correct the shortcomings of appearance date back to ancient times and they were not unsuccessful. One example is an Egyptian finger prosthesis that was not only aesthetic but also very effective. Another example is from ancient India: From 800 BC, they could fix nose shape, using the skin from the forehead or the cheeks.

2. The sewer system, 2600 BC

The earliest sewage installations belonged to the Indian Valley civilization: in Mohenjo-daro, there were public toilets and a city sewer system. The channel was also known in ancient Babylon, several Chinese cities, and in Rome, where a colossal engineering project called Cloaca Maxima (<x0).

3. Battery, 2500 BC

Baghdad's battery is a <x0-tenger” ceramic that contains a copper tube with an iron rod inside. The replicas of this battery are indeed capable of creating tension. Perhaps the ancient Babylonians knew the method of galvanization used by these vessels, even though skeptics argue that they served only to preserve manuscripts.

4. Flamethrower 420 BC

The prototype of this frightening weapon was first used in the Battle of Delium. The ancient flamethrower, or “Greek fire”, was a copper tube used to design a liquid and flammable mixture. The compressed air or large arrows served as a driving force.

5. Alarmed Hour, 400 Before Christ

Greek philosopher Plato used a water watch that could give a strong signal to remind him that it was time to start lectures. Water alarms were further held in ancient Rome and the Middle East. The alarm mechanical clocks that were able to fall at a certain time of the day first appeared in China in the 8th century AD and came to Europe in the 14th century.

6. Robots, 323 BC

Protonics of modern robots were women's figures mounted on the lighthouse of the island of Pharo. At regular intervals, they would turn and hit the bells. At night they sounded loudly, warning sailors of the vicinity of the coast. Much later, in the 17th and 18th centuries, cars called automatons gained popularity in Western Europe. They were schedules designed to appear human or animal, and capable of various actions.

7. Automatic store, 1st Century After Christ

The temple's automatic doors were already known in ancient Greece. At that time, they were commanded by the Hero Aeolipil, the oldest prototype of the steam engine. A fire was lit on the altar under which pipes of water were hidden. The steam activated a system of blocks connected to doors. This created an illusion of magic, which was only for the benefit of the priests.

8. Sale Machine 1 After Christ

In our time, sales cars can sell anything you can imagine from toys to fresh pizzas. In the days of Hero of Alexandria you could buy holy water to wash your hands in temples, even of them. After storing a coin in the device, a mechanism was set in motion that released part of the water to the buyer.

9. Streetlight, 1st Century After Christ

An instrument for measuring the distance traveled by a vehicle or traveler was probably invented by the Syracuse Archimedes. The first router seems to be a series of small wheels with numbers pointing to the length of the distance traveled by the vehicle. A similar device was invented by Chinese philosopher and scholar Zhang Heng.

10. Sismoscope 132 AD

Another invention of Zhang Heng is a seismoscope that can react to a future earthquake. It was a very strange but precise construction: a bronze ball was designed by one of the eight tubes formed like dragon heads, and it fell on the head of a corresponding metal bell beneath them, pointing to the direction from which the shocks were coming.

11. Computer 100 Before Christ

The Antikythera Mechanism is considered an ancient “computer”, because this device can track the movement of celestial bodies and predict solar and lunar eclipses. It was also used to calculate the start date of the Olympics.

The object this girl maintains looks like a modern laptop, which offers a lot of incentive for different conspiracy theories. Of course, there were no laptops in 100 BC, and the object is evidently just a jewelry box or a wax tablet.

Twelve. Sunglass, 10th century

It is believed that this object was invented by the Inuit and had to protect its eyes from the “snowmaker”. Glasses had no real glass - white ivory glasses with narrow lines. The first real glass glasses (the smokehead actually) appeared later in 12th century China. They were used to hide the expression of the user's face, not as protection from sunlight. /The world.al