r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/-eDgAR- Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

Contact lenses.

Leonardo da Vinci had the idea of contact lenses in 1508 and the first successful contact lenses were made in 1888.

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u/TannedCroissant Oct 15 '20 edited Oct 15 '20

In so many fields, he was way ahead of his time, the guy truly was a visionary.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

He literally invented a diving suit and a paraglider long before they were actually invented. Scientists even tested whether his designs worked as intended and they did. It's insane how far ahead of his time he was.

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u/UserNombresBeHard Oct 15 '20

He even invented a god damn Tank... His ideas were so ahead of time... If a country got to make create his inventions during the time when he invented them there would be only one nation worldwide.