Old+ideas

Some old ideas were really good, but we forget about them and the engineers who were responsible for these ideas.

Here are some good "old" ideas.
 * [|Pont du Gard] - an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge in southern France. It is part of the Nîmes aqueduct, a 31 mile-long structure that carried water to the fountains, baths and homes of the people of Nîmes.
 * [|step Pyramid of Djoser], columns into architecture
 * [|Antikythera mechanism] (video 2:56) epicyclic gearing - Archimedes - The [|Antikythera Mechanism] is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision.   In 2010, we built a fully-functional replica out of Lego.
 * [|Leonardo DaVinci's] drawings of flying contraptions that would inspire generations of scientists after him.
 * first [|steam engine] in 1698. But that idea literally didn’t go anywhere until around 200 years later.
 * first [|electric cell] called the Volt.
 * bridges, dockyards, and the first [|major British railway], in addition to steamships and tunnels that revolutionized public transportation
 * first [|web search engine] in 1990, bringing the rapid rise of computer technology

[|Steam engines (video 4:12)] - Engine driver David Gates takes us through the workings of a steam engnine to explain how they powered early trains, sewing mills and sewage pumps as well their importance in industry today...

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