Ancient High Tech: The Astonishing Scientific Achievements of Early Civilizations by Joseph Frank

Author:Joseph, Frank [Joseph, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2020-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

RUST-DEFYING IRON

Applied interaction of electricity with metals developed beyond jewelrymaking and statue-plating to material achievements superior even to those of modern industrial science. One example is India’s remarkably advanced Delhi Pillar, “a solid shaft of wrought iron,” as Joseph Robert Jochmans describes it, “made up of iron discs expertly welded together in a fashion that the welding marks are hardly discernible. . . . The mystery is, one would expect that any equivalent mass of iron—subjected to the Indian monsoon rains, winds and temperatures for sixteen hundred years or more—should have been reduced to a pile of rust long ago.” 21

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