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Looking for information on flexible glass? Don’t be fooled, a first search on Wikipedia brings you to some interesting stories. Suffice it to say, the state-of-the-art of modern flexible glass technology is that of Gorilla Glass and Willow Glass, both manufactured by Corning Glass Company.

20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass

Beyond that, we have some pretty interesting information on Wikipedia about lost technologies and ancient technologies. A flexible glass-like material was purportedly invented in the ancient Roman times, but the inventor was beheaded out of fear, or so the legend goes. Other interesting lost inventions are Greek fire (some nitrocellulose-like substance that can burn even on water), corrosion-resistant iron, and precisely cut and drilled Mayan stones. One interesting ancient inventions that I was previously unaware of was Roman central heating systems. Indeed, the implementation was primitive, that of venting smokey furnace air underneath floors, through chimneys inside walls, and out through a roof, with some brass dampers in the system, but quite mighty in terms of the effectiveness and capabilities of the time.

Another interesting area are those of pseudoscience and pseudoarchaeology. One modern work of art, the “Babylonokia” represents a 1990s mobile phone handset carved out of a clay tablet with Cuneiform markings on it. This picture was copied and circulated with some false claims of archaeological discovery.

20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_invention
20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact
20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_technology
20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocaust
20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonokia
20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_fire
20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel
20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_glass
20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlite
20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_pillar_of_Delhi
20190309/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saksaywaman