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Sorry 'bout that - it was tagged for deletion by another editor because you blanked the page. The content is now copied here, edit this page to see it. Cheers, Nikkimaria (talk) 19:18, 6 November 2010 (UTC) <!-- Forgotten Technology is the idea that some of the greatest mysteries of our time are due to technology that we no longer possess. This can mean that either we no longer have the materials needed to perform tasks, or that from the invention of new tools and resources it is difficult to see another way that things may have been constructed or performed. Forgotten Technology is a very useful idea when considering Ancient Construction, and the erection of monuments such as Stonehenge and the great Pyramids of Egypt. In exploring topics such as Stonehenge and various other architecture mysteries, there is a lot of skepticism as to how they came about. To the overly tamed eye it seems unlikely that these monuments were built without the help of machinery, aliens or any other form of help. However, it is possible that in figuring out how these monuments were constructed, we are too jaded by new age technology to see how these figures were constructed.

Wally Wallington
One man in particular has challenged the ideas and hypotheses of how Stonehenge may have been constructed. In his retirement from a career in carpentry and construction work, Wally Wallington has found that by using simple techniques he is able to move blocks over 5 tons without any help. Pouring his own concrete to create these large blocks, he has found that by using simple tools and ideas such as stones, levees and weights he is able to move almost anything. Nine years after retirement, Wally started fooling around with these ideas by experimenting with one ton blocks. He claims that this type of technology could have evolved at any time in history and agrees with the laws of physics. Wally does not use wheels, metal levers, or rollers at any point in his work. He claims that his favorite tool he uses in moving these large blocks is gravity. Insistent on working alone Wally performs live in front of an audience of children and grandchildren, with son Ed recording Wally’s great feats.

Technique
How does Wally accomplish moving these large blocks? Wally’s system includes using a system of weights and counterweights, levees and fulcrum points. The fulcrum point is the point in which a lever is balance and a force is exerted. His ability to locate the fulcrum point on these large blocks is crucial to where they move and how they move. By placing two stones underneath a block and using wooding handles placed unto the block, Wally has found that in one rotation of the block he can move it the exact distance that he place in between the two stones. Also, some of his technique relies on a system of leaning blocks and wedging pieces of wood underneath to help gravity place it in its desired position.

Accomplishments
In experimenting with large blocks, Wally has been able to move extremely thousands of pounds of concrete with little or no help at all. One of his greatest feats includes moving a thirty by forty foot pole barn over three hundred feet onto someone else’s property. Wallington has recreated one of the arches on Stonehenge with just the help of his son, Jim. The Stonehenge recreation weighs in at over 2,400 pounds, but Wally does not plan on stopping at that.

Goals
Wallington can see from his research that it is possible to apply these ideas to other monuments aside from Stonehenge. In the next couple years, Wallington plans on attempting to recreate the pyramid of Giza. He does not believe that it was impossible for the Egyptians to construct pyramids without the help of modern day machinery or extra-terrestrial intervention. On the contrary, he thinks that this type of construction was possible in this time period and he also claims that he doesn’t believe that it was necessary to lift the blocks to put them into place. Wallington claims that it is a matter of moving the weight from place to place, and in applying his theory to the Pyramid he claims that the stones used would make excellent fulcrum and pivot points. Wallington speculates that in a 25 year construction schedule, working at forty hours per week and fifty weeks per year, with a crew of 520 people he thinks that it is possible to rebuild the Great Pyramid of Giza. Wally also goes on to say that he thinks this is possible without the help of an external ramp to complete the project.

Forgotten Technology
What makes Wally Wallington’s work so monumental in itself? Today’s technology has made it difficult for us to see the simpler side of things. It is not as though the technology to build such monuments was not present at the time that they were constructed, but rather that how they were constructed is more difficult to see now that we have simplified construction from such a manual labor. Development of machinery such as trucks, bulldozers and cranes has made it difficult to see that these monuments were able to be erected without the use of such tools. Wallington proves this in his experiments with large concrete blocks. By using basic logic and the laws of gravity Wallington has proved that it is possible to create these monuments by hand. -->

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