Lost inventions
This is a list of lost inventions:
- Greek fire
- Damascus steel
- Flexible glass
- Starlite
- Sloot Digital Coding System[1]
- Silphium contraceptives[2]
- Artificial petrifaction of human cadavers invented by Girolamo Segato
- Construction technique involved at Saksaywaman where blocks were put into place by carving them precisely. The method used to match precisely the shape of a stone with the adjacent stones is unknown
- The construction techniques used by Edward Leedskalnin to single-handedly lift massive coral blocks in the creation of his Coral Castle
See also
References
- "The Sloot Digital Coding System is not about compression". September 17, 2006.
- Did the ancient Romans use a natural herb for birth control?, The Straight Dope, October 13, 2006
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