Mayan rubber bands and rubber soled shoes 3000+ years ago. Wow.

Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
Egyptians had batteries, low potential but still, the ingenuity and understanding is there.

There exists no evidence whatsoever for Ancient Egyptians having batteries. Not even anything mildly suggesting such a thing.

Of course, many modern Egyptians have batteries.

Harte

Mayan rubber bands and rubber soled shoes 3000+ years ago. Wow.

I wonder if it was vulcanised? I read somewhere that if you make shoes from rubber it'll melt when the sun's hot, so it has to be vulcanised to keep it's shape. Now if they did that, that's more than cool. Great minds.

Originally posted by Harte

Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
Egyptians had batteries, low potential but still, the ingenuity and understanding is there.

There exists no evidence whatsoever for Ancient Egyptians having batteries. Not even anything mildly suggesting such a thing.

Of course, many modern Egyptians have batteries.

Harte

You are correct, it was the Baghdad battery. Apologies.

Although I get the feeling you are going to call me up on that one too.



EMM

It's pretty amazing to think how advanced not just the Mayans, or the Romans were but most EVERYONE was back in the day, especially considering their lack of knowledge from other societies. (ie. internet) It's pretty amazing to think how astronomically big of an acquisition the internet is for advancing technology..
And: Maybe more ammo for the idea that there's a "invisible connection" between people/things. It's a stretch, but it's an interesting one at that...with some decent connections. "Morphogenetic fields":
ezinearticles.com...

Pretty good stuff really- a decent read.

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