Monday, February 20, 2012

Lost Technologies, Including Greek Fire

http://io9.com/5881149/technologies-that-weve-lost-+-and-the-quest-to-find-them-again?utm_source=io9+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7bd0655eb4-UA-142218-29&utm_medium=email
Fun article about "lost" technologies, such as the Byzantine napalm known as "Greek fire," and Damascus steel. Brings the concept all the way forward to modern times, when things can be "lost" by being stored on obsolete computer systems. (The digital version of my dissertation has suffered such a fate.)

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