Ancient Roman precision tools were intricately decorated masterpieces.

Jul 10, 2021 12:08 PM

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Ancient Roman precision tools were intricately decorated masterpieces

Can you imagine being handed a few shiney rocks and being asked to make that? Would not know how to even start.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Fascinating!

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And at some point the establishment decides to pay healthcare workers scraps and disastrously privatized american Healthcare

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The first twelve seconds... Holy ASMR, Batman.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Operate me ancestors

4 years ago | Likes 145 Dislikes 3

Read as either a pirate or as the kids from Capt'n Crunch commercials

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

ce l'hai i sordi?

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Didn't need such precision when the unanesthetized patients were squirming and flailing in pain.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Both opium and mandrake were used in concentration to induce anesthesia during Roman surgeries.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This had to be narrated in British English.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Oh I recognize that music.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Backscratcher!!!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I use that tool on the left to scratch my back sometimes.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

tools... drool... tools....

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Form follows function, so of course they are similar. The did the same job.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I hope that in 2000+yrs, the Magma people remember us with this kind of reverence and not all the other legit bullshit we fucked up.

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Doubt it, all those millions of Funko Pops and phone cases still won't have biodegraded and there'll be a doc handling them with disgust. :)

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Let me be eternally known for my geek girl commitment as evidenced by my She-Ra, Rogue, Hermione, Evil Queen, and Scarlet Witch funko pops

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean....I bet they had more time on their hand and more *cough* motivation

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So convergent evolution can be applied to tools?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

Yes.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

No

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

.... No. Modern western tools are just more precise versions of old Roman tools.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Holy shit. That’s wild.

4 years ago | Likes 368 Dislikes 4

nah. pretty sure these were domestic

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What's even wilder is that the Romans got their medicine from Ancient Egypt, where it was effectively already a true science.

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

It's theorized that lathes were so common in Rome that they weren't documented. The only accounts we have are offhand mentions of them 1/2

4 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

In the same way you would refer to a car now. Nothing fantastic or magical, just mentioned like "yeah I needed some lathe work done". 2/2

4 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Honestly I thought I was looking at lace bobbins or something at first - then the row of beautifully turned instruments at the end of the >

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

clip, just stunning.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Why isn't that dude wearing gloves!

4 years ago | Likes 69 Dislikes 3

He's not doing surgery.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Cotton gloves aren't needed for handling every artefact. In fact for manuscripts the oils on your skin are good for the parchment.

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I remember reading that gloves increase the risk of dropping an artifact. Which means overall the skin oils are less harmful than the drops

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You could just put a pillow under it...

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And as a guitar player, the length of this person’s fingernails…

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 12

He's got fleshy tips though. On my fingers, that would definitely be too much nail.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They’re metal. Metal and stone don’t need gloves. Parchment does, ignore the other fucking fool who said otherwise.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was going to say that… historical pieces like that need protecting from the oils and other contaminants in our skin.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 14

There are definitely better oils to use you preserve these pieces than skin oil.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I have some ancient coins that are pretty durable. It really is dependent on the material, but they built these things to last!

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Welp, a mangaka somewhere in Japan is writing an isekai based on this knowledge.

4 years ago | Likes 88 Dislikes 3

Be the change you want to be in the world my dude

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Yeah totally.

4 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Break it down for me, what does this mean?

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Protagonist travels to a different (fantastical) world. I'm guessing this would be inspiring travel to a world based on ancient Rome.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fantastic, thanks

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Mangaka = manga creator. "Isekai" translates to different world or otherworld, but in general is a whole genre of parallel reality works.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Cool thanks

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It's going to be 120 volumes long. You'll NEVER catch up fully.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I just finished one that was 1400 chapters

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wow! How long did that take you?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

About two months, but it was very busy months in which I couldn't read much

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I told a guy about the novel when I was at 400, and he overtook me within a week, and then finished it when I was around 800...

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