History's Greatest Gadgets, From the Ark to the Turk

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• February 05, 2008
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  History's Greatest Gadgets, From the Ark to the Turk

  Posted: February 5th, 2008, 12:00am

  Historical inventions like the compass and the Leyden jar join mythical gadgets like the Ark of the Covenant -- rumored to be a sort of early battery -- and outright hoaxes like the Mechanical Turk in this eclectic list of ancient innovation.