15 INCREDIBLE Ancient Gadgets

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

I had never heard of the Gavazan column, but as you explain that it was a seizmic movement detector, some explanation of how it worked would have been good. You said that it's a pivoting pillar, but the external photos don't give a hint at how that worked.

[@kellyshaw9410]

From Atlas Obscura: NEARLY A THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE the development of the modern seismograph in the 19th century, Armenian monks living in the Tatev monastery constructed the “Gavazan” column, a pillar with a pivoting base, which tilted when the ground shook from tremors caused by earthquakes (or approaching armies).

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

@@kellyshaw9410 Actually, your description triggered a very old memory of my having read something. I don't recall if it was the same device, but did it have a number of "tongues" - 8 or 12 - around the base, so they could get an indication of the direction from which the shake came?

[@danmar007]

Fascinating stuff. Great video.

[@garymiller5937]

Cool 😎 stuff. Thank you. 🙂🙂🙂❤❤❤

[@BleachedWheat]

Jesus pls bless all these creationists!

[@kellyshaw9410]

NEARLY A THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE the development of the modern seismograph in the 19th century, Armenian monks living in the Tatev monastery constructed the “Gavazan” column, a pillar with a pivoting base, which tilted when the ground shook from tremors caused by earthquakes (or approaching armies). Take from Atlas Obscura

[@DK-lg7ti]

Excellent info

[@ariel393939]

Thanks for the info

[@demizer1968]

Just think how many times that iron pillar has been struck by lightning.

[@cynthiabinder3730]

😊damask steel awesome stuff. Lost in 1900.

[@adamwu4565]

I wonder if the maker of the Lycurgus Cup (or any of its predecessors) was just trying to make the cup sparkly by adding the gold and silver grains and stumbled onto the color changing property entirely by accident.

[@MultiMolly21]

The quickest way to get rid of toenail fungus it to paint it with super glue like nail polish.

[@BleachedWheat]

For real? Have you done this?

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

To my mind, the interesting thing about the Nilometer was that it was constructed inside "monasteries". It was a fairly simple device that measured the depth of the river water, and they could predict from the rate of rise and fall of the water, when the Nile would come into flood - essential information for farmers along the river - but the means of getting this information - the Nilometer - was kept secret and used to heighten the mysticism of their religion - but there was no mysticism involved - they did it by reading water depth.

[@howardsimpson489]

And the narrowness of the communicating pipes meant that rapid changes were ironed out. This made evaluation of change more easy.

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

@@howardsimpson489 Yes - it was a clever device - but my point is the way it was presented as mysticism. It wasn't!

[@Rebecca-d7b]

Pagans are not new age we've been here a long time.

[@philsturgill3435]

What’s a pagan? Are the like jehova’s witness?

[@laurielenig9939]

No....many religions are considered Pagan, ie. Witches, earth religions, etc.

[@Shieldmaiden313]

Yes we have my fellow Pagan.... our energies are reincarnated & will keep reincarnating....so we will be here forever!!!! ⭐🌙

[@Shieldmaiden313]

​@@philsturgill3435Also Norse pagans like me (Odinists *Vikings*) the ones the Christians stole the Winter Solstice traditions and beliefs from....Christians called us Pagans because we believe in more than one God/Goddess.... Pagans are basically nature, earth, elements, universe, stars, energies, spells, magic, signs, symbols, & many different gods and goddesses based....

[@tomschmitz8884]

Pagans are: People Against Goodness And Normalcy!

[@ComeonmenID10T]

you got to read the disk from the inside to the outside

[@thetruthseeker-hk2kq]

Could the iron pillar be a cannon barrel where the open end is buried in the ground

[@stefanschleps8758]

The one person who suggested that it is indeed Archimedes who built the astrological "Antikythera" mechanism was myself. I am to date the only person to have done so and even know what the stone balls of Costa Rica are. I put both explanations up on the internet around 2018. The stone balls? They were used as value holders, like money, and or Credit Cards. Given sufficient time and energy one can contemplate the worlds mysteries with relative ease, and from the depths of such meditations arise the solutions to all of life's little mysteries. Good luck, fare well.

[@chaztech9824]

u didnt mention how they rediscovered Damascus steel? a guy was moving some slag metal that was impure with other machine parts in it and it spilled out of the crucible... when it hardened they found it was really hard and almost indestructible...

[@josephspruill1212]

Damascus steal has been rediscovered. They did studies of the swords they do have. Found the source of the iron from the ground. I forget the right combo mixture. Yet, they have discovered how it was made temp etc the whole nine. Need to do a remake of the video now….

[@JohnHall-uv2jm]

I would think they used pine sap. That's used in napalm

[@jonathanhughes8679]

It does rust. It’s just very slow to rust.

[@thetruthseeker-hk2kq]

It's painted with rustoleum paint

[@anthonylepinski8290]

Cook a dish and let it get to hot. Flames up and the water spreads the fire.

[@aaajp3]

Antikythera has been done to death. Give us a break.?

[@nellidivina5280]

Could lycurgus cup be holy Grail?

[@stefanschleps8758]

No, it is not. But I like the way you think. There are at least two problems with that idea. 1) This cup is five or six hundred years too new. 2) This is not a normal cup. If the "Holy Grail" was a drinking cup belonging to, or at least used by Jesus. It would be a much simpler, much more humble relic.

[@sloppydog5427]

Does Charlie Sheen know they're using his voice

[@JamesPilutik]

Lmao

[@tommyfunn]

Wow such ai

[@John-gi7qk]

does not fit because narrators believe in evolution

[@Eric-qo8vv]

Muslims used it to determine prayer time. Smh

[@John-gi7qk]

like a bell found in coal billions of zillions of years old? Metals that can not be made in our current atmosphere

[@BleachedWheat]

That's right! Jesus bless you!

[@John-gi7qk]

@@BleachedWheat uh no problem makes claims about unfound dated but mention Jesus and atheism creeps in

[@philosoraptor777]

AI BS

[@benjamin3922]

The pillars theory theorizes the pillars processing, structure and properties form a layer to resist rust. That’s A perfect example of a scientist’s theory when a scientist has no theory. That is the “no shit Sherlock” answer addressing the “why” and not the “how”. Just like earthquakes. Tectonics plates are the why earthquakes happen, not how the plates moving

[@Eric-qo8vv]

Ah Muslims and Christian’s at it again in history. Imagine where we would be if we got along

[@laurielenig9939]

@Eric...how about it!?!

[@BladeShowMan]

Nowhere

[@jaychapman2887]

AI images suck.if this channel doesnt stop with the laziness they're going to lose a long tme subscriber.the content has been going downhill for awhile now anyway using the same clips and subjects over and over and over in multiple videos

[@feliciawat]

First haha

[@jamesevans3492]

First At Being OMEGA You Were, And Still Are Idjit . . . haha . . . Ouch . . .

[@glenngrundy5919]

second

[@jamesevans3492]

second At Being OMEGA You Were, And Are Idjit . . . Ouch . . .