Medieval technology: The way it was.
3/4/2002
Has your design well dried up? For inspiration, climb into this Wayback Machine and see how two-dozen world-changing technologies came to be. Inventions explored here include the heavy plow (500 AD), soap (800s), rat traps (12th century), canon (14th century) and the blast furnace (1300-1500). Each technology is explained and put in historical context. Data can be accessed via a subject index, timeline, or by reference. Forget high gloss Java applets here—this site is simple and maintained as a labor of love by one man, Paul J. Gans, a chemistry professor at New York University.