The experimentalist Nikolay Vasiutin copies the ancient Egyptian technology of granite drilling: a copper tube and a grinding agent (corundum).
English version of this video: https://youtu.be/yyCc4iuMikQ
The experiment was carried out for the ANTROPOGENEZ.RU (http://antropogenez.ru).
The video was first presented on June the 5th, 2016, at the "Scientists against Myths" educational forum.
Experiment participants, apart from Nikolay Vasiutin:
- Aleksandr Sokolov, ANTROPOGENEZ.RU editor;
- Oleg Krugliakov, owner of the "What the ancients could do" forum (http://rekhmire.ru);
- Valeriy Senmuth (http://senmuth.com);
- Vladimir Morozov (http://v-morozov.ru).
Specifications:
Total work time: 8 hours.
Tube diameter: 50mm.
Drilling depth: 50mm.
Tube runout:15mm.
Total weight of the bitbrace: 11kg.
Camera and edit: Vladimir Morozov (http://v-morozov.ru).
Involving music and photos by Valeriy Senmuth (http://senmuth.com).
English subtitles: Dmitrij Kazak
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