Forbidden inventions

Forbidden inventions

With all the species, science and technology have also evolved after years of experimentation and testing. There have been many inventions in history which were too early to be accepted and hence were forbidden by the society. Today most of them are re-invented and re-discovered, but the interesting fact is that, world would would have been totally different if their acceptance was not so delayed. Lets have a look at some of the most remarkable ones.

Greek fire (672)

It was a sticky liquid flame used by Byzantine naval forces in 7^th century AD against the enemy ships. This became a very powerful weapon and helped them to win almost every battle they fought with it. The formulae of the compound was so well guided that its knowledge was not transferred to the future generations and the formulae of the compound was lost forever.

Electric Car (1828)

In 1828 a Hungarian Engineer ‘Anyos Jedlik’ invented first electric car of the world. Because of the lack of charging points, high cost and low speed, the invention was not valued much. Today every automobile company knows that electric car would be a very powerful alternative of fuel cars in the near future.

Earliest mobile phone (1906)

An American inventor named Charles Alden published an article in a nation daily ‘New York World’ that he has tested and invented the first vest pocket telephone of the world. But after this nothing was ever said about it in any newspaper. The article was published 67 years before people first saw a real mobile phone.

Flexible glass (1^st century)

Isidore of Seville claimed that a Roman craftsman was able to create flexible glass in the first century in the empire of Tiberius Caesar. He made a pot made with flexible glass and presented it in front of the Caesar, who was astonished to see that the pot didn’t break, rather dented, when he threw it on the ground. Caesar was scared with the invention fearing that it would adversely affect the value of gold and silver, hence he ordered death penalty on the craftsman. Since only he know the formula of the flexible glass, it was lost forever with him.

Tesla coil (1891)

A Serbian American Engineer Nikola Tesla invented world’s first Tesla coil in 1891. At that time practical application of transferring electricity through charged air was considered dangerous. Today it is a matter of research.

Liquid Propellant rocket (1920)

An American professor ‘Robert Goddard’ is credited to be the inventor of the liquid propellant rocket, though he was considered mad because of carrying out dangerous experiments. Because of this reason, his research was sold to Germany whose government used the technology to build missiles in World War 2. It was 20 years later when the importance of liquid propellant rocket in making space rockets was understood.

Energy Catalyzer (1983)

An Italian Inventor and entrepreneur invented the world’s first energy catalyzer which was used to convert waste into crude oil. He was later arrested for tax fraud.