Surprising archaeological finds and ancient manuscripts have led historians to new conclusions about the technology invented by ancient peoples.
It is well known how sophisticated steel ships from the ancient world to the Renaissance. But, it turns out, our ancestors also developed ground and air transport.
This article examines transportation technology that existed in the ancient world, in particular the rocket chair, a steam truck, as well as the possibility of flying machines of ancient Egypt in the form of a mysterious and very controversial bird of Saqqara.
Over this wooden figure in the form of a bird for several decades, scientists scratching their heads-Egyptologists. The results of the purge in a wind tunnel struck gold. This model is the ideal glider that can carry loads four times more its own weight. On several frescoes even found a picture of the “bird” in the context of flights. The question remains, whether this proves the model that the ancient Egyptians knew about the principles of flight. If he did, then where a full-sized gliders and planes?
The next episode of the discovery of ancient – Chinese legend of WAN Hu, the first aeronaut, according to which he built a chair equipped with 47 rockets. Filled with gunpowder, rockets had to lift the machine into the air. About this structure little is known, we only know that when you first start, he exploded with a brave test pilot on Board.
History remembers about father Ferdinand Verbiest (Ferdinand Verbiest), Flemish missionary, the Jesuit of the XVII century in China during the Qing dynasty. He was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer and proved that European exact science was more accurate than Chinese. Verbiest worked as a diplomat, cartographer and translator, because he spoke Latin, German, Dutch, Spanish, Hebrew and Italian. He has written more than thirty books.
Verbiest developed, according to some claims, the world’s first self-propelled vehicle – the prototype of the first car. In 1672 he designed a toy for the Chinese Emperor. It was a self-propelled vehicle with a steam drive. She was only 65 cm long, and therefore not intended for the carriage of the driver or passengers. In the spherical boiler formed water vapor, whence he was directed to the blades of a steam turbine, which drives the rear wheels.
