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List of lost inventions, the Glossary

This is a list of lost inventions - technologies whose original capabilities cannot be recreated in the same form anymore.^[1]

29 relations: Aluminium, Apollo program, Archimedes, Archimedes' heat ray, Ballista, Blinded experiment, Byzantine Empire, Calcium, Claw of Archimedes, Flexible glass, Girolamo Segato, Glass Flowers, Glass sea creatures, Greek fire, Mithridate, Moon landing, Out-of-place artifact, Panacea (medicine), Panjagan, Petrifaction, Polybolos, Sasanian Empire, Saturn V, Seismometer, Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC), Sloot Digital Coding System, Starlite, Static Media, Stradivarius.
Lost inventions

Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.

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Archimedes

Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.

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Archimedes' heat ray

Archimedes' heat ray is a device that Archimedes is purported to have used to burn attacking Roman ships during the Siege of Syracuse. List of lost inventions and Archimedes' heat ray are lost inventions.

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Ballista

The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα ballistra and that from βάλλω ballō, "throw"), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched either bolts or stones at a distant target.

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Blinded experiment

In a blind or blinded experiment, information which may influence the participants of the experiment is withheld until after the experiment is complete.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Calcium

Calcium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ca and atomic number 20.

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Claw of Archimedes

The Claw of Archimedes (lit; also known as the iron hand) was an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to defend the seaward portion of Syracuse's city wall against amphibious assault. List of lost inventions and Claw of Archimedes are lost inventions.

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Flexible glass

Flexible glass is an alleged lost invention from the time of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. List of lost inventions and Flexible glass are lost inventions.

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Girolamo Segato

Girolamo Segato (13 June 1792 – 3 February 1836) was an Italian naturalist, cartographer, Egyptologist, and anatomist. List of lost inventions and Girolamo Segato are lost inventions.

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Glass Flowers

The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (or simply the Glass Flowers) is a collection of highly realistic glass botanical models at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Glass sea creatures

The glass sea creatures (alternately called the Blaschka sea creatures, glass marine invertebrates, Blaschka invertebrate models, and Blaschka glass invertebrates) are works of glass artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka.

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Greek fire

Greek fire was an incendiary chemical weapon manufactured in and used by the Eastern Roman Empire from the seventh through the fourteenth centuries. List of lost inventions and Greek fire are lost inventions.

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Mithridate

Mithridate, also known as mithridatium, mithridatum, or mithridaticum, is a semi-mythical remedy with as many as 65 ingredients, used as an antidote for poisoning, and said to have been created by Mithridates VI Eupator of Pontus in the 1st century BC. List of lost inventions and mithridate are lost inventions.

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Moon landing

A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions.

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Out-of-place artifact

An out-of-place artifact (OOPArt or oopart) is an artifact of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest to someone that is claimed to have been found in an unusual context, which someone claims to challenge conventional historical chronology by its presence in that context.

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Panacea (medicine)

A panacea is any supposed remedy that is claimed (for example) to cure all diseases and prolong life indefinitely.

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Panjagan

Panjagān was either a projectile weapon or an archery technique used by the late military of Sasanian Persia, by which a volley of five arrows was shot. List of lost inventions and Panjagan are lost inventions.

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Petrifaction

In geology, petrifaction or petrification is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals.

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Polybolos

The polybolos (the name means "multi-thrower" in Greek) was an ancient Greek repeating ballista, reputedly invented by Dionysius of Alexandria (a 3rd-century BC Greek engineer at the Rhodes arsenal) and used in antiquity. List of lost inventions and polybolos are lost inventions.

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Sasanian Empire

The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.

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Saturn V

The Saturn V is a retired American super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by NASA under the Apollo program for human exploration of the Moon.

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Seismometer

A seismometer is an instrument that responds to ground displacement and shaking such as caused by quakes, volcanic eruptions, and explosions.

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Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC)

The siege of Syracuse by the Roman Republic took place in 213–212 BC.

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Sloot Digital Coding System

The Sloot Digital Coding System is an alleged data sharing technique that its inventor claimed could store a complete digital movie file in 8 kilobytes of data — violating Shannon's source coding theorem by many orders of magnitude. List of lost inventions and Sloot Digital Coding System are lost inventions.

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Starlite

Starlite is an intumescent material said to be able to withstand and insulate from extreme heat. List of lost inventions and Starlite are lost inventions.

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7Hops.com Inc., doing business as Static Media, is an American internet company established in 2012 based in Indianapolis.

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Stradivarius

A Stradivarius is one of the violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments built by members of the Italian family Stradivari, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), during the 17th and 18th centuries. List of lost inventions and Stradivarius are lost inventions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_inventions

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