7 Times Ancient Tech Was Way Ahead of its Time...

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1. Multitool
If you thought the first multitool made was by Leatherman or even the Swiss Army, you couldn't be further from the truth, it is in fact a lot older, almost 2000 years old! This Roman multitool has a spoon, a fork, a knife, a spike, a spatula, and a small toothpick and it was made of silver, except for the blade which is Iron. It was discovered in the Mediterranean area in the late 1980s and is believed to have belonged to a wealthy traveler. If you like the design you can actually buy a replica made in brass for 90 euros. If you want to know where to get one let us know in the comments!

2. Tessarakonteres
When we think of huge ships, we think of oil tankers and aircraft carriers, but huge ships aren't a modern thing. The Tessarakonteres was a massive ship the was built in the 3rd century BC by Ptolemy the fourth. The ship was a catamaran and was 420ft long and 57ft wide! that's about the same size as Noah's Ark! or roughly half the length of the HMS Titanic, and it was made entirely out of wood! It was so big it took 4000 oarsmen to move it, these oarsmen had to be configured in three separate rows at different heights just to be able to fit them in! the ship could carry the 4000 oarsmen plus 400 crew members and it could also carry nearly 3000 soldiers!

3. Pump-action Crossbow
Around 400 BC, a time when most armies were using spears, swords, shields and the first crossbows were appearing, the Chinese were using a pump-action crossbow! this invention meant that loading time was drastically reduced and one archer could rapidly fire up to 10 arrows without having to stop to reload. The weapon did have a rather limited range, just 250ft, so the archers poisoned the arrowheads so just a scratch would kill their adversary.

4. Chariot factory
Henry Ford is generally credited as being the father of the Mass-Production Assembly Line but this isn't actually true! Over 3000 years ago, Pharaoh Ramesses II was preparing for the Battle of Kadesh, he ordered a city to be built, "The City of Ramesses" this city was to be part pleasure palace and part military camp with a number of factories. These factories were to produce weapons, shields, and of course, Chariots. The factories produced an incredible 250 chariots every 2 weeks and they managed this by building the parts of the chariot separately and then assembling them in what would now be called a Mass-production assembly line.

5. Hydraulic hammer.
These hammers are powered by a waterwheel that turns a camshaft that has staggered lugs on it, these lugs push down on the hammer's handle lifting it up, once the lug passes, the hammer falls. This invention was used in Italy around the first century AD for pounding grain and was later used for tanning leather and then also in mining. However, these water-powered hammers we actually in use in Chinese so time beforehand and were used to crush rice for flour. Some Chinese historians say the invention dates back as far as the Zhou Dynasty which is between 1050-221 BC.

6.Pulleys.
Archimedes lived around 200BC and without his inventions, we wouldn't be where we are today. He is credited with inventing the lever, but this isn't true, he merely explained how it works. He did, however, invent the Block and Tackle Pulley system, this system enabled heavy loads to be lifted by fewer men. The principle of leverage and his pulley system were key components in his invention "The Claw of Archimedes". This claw was used to defend the city of Syracuse, the claw was dropped into the water and when a shipped sailed over it, it was pulled up, the lever and pulley system allowed relatively few men to pull the ship up out of the water and then let it drop, this caused damage to the ship and could even sink it.

7. Robots
Robots may seem like a futuristic thing but the first robot was actually made by Heron of Alexandria in the first century AD. This cart used strings wound around its axels and then tied to a counterweight to make it move. Heron worked out that by putting pegs into the axels at different intervals and changing the direction the string was wrapped around the axel a wheel would stop, or turn in the opposite direction. He could then calculate where to position the pegs and how many times to wind the string to effectively "Program" the robot to move exactly how he wanted.

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