List of lost inventions
This is a list of lost inventions.
Examples
- Artificial petrifaction of human cadavers invented by Girolamo Segato
- Archimedes' heat ray
- Firepaste
- Greek fire
- Panjagan
- Roman concrete[1]
- Silphium contraceptives[2]
- Starlite
- Teleforce, Tesla's so-called death ray
Questionable examples
- Angel Light
- Damascus steel
- Flexible glass
- Iron pillar of Delhi, notable for the rust-resistant composition of the metals used in its construction
- Mithridate
- Sloot Digital Coding System[3]
- Nikola Tesla electric car hoax
See also
References
- Ancient Romans Made World's Most Durable Concrete, The Washington Post, July 4, 2017
- Did the ancient Romans use a natural herb for birth control?, The Straight Dope, October 13, 2006
- "The Sloot Digital Coding System is not about compression". September 17, 2006.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.