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Originally Posted by Torch2k
Do you really have to go back that far? Take someone from 1959 and empty your pockets and attache case: a cell phone would be hard enough for them to grasp; a Blackberry would blow them away; your laptop would seem like something out of 2001; and, your GPS would look like voodoo.
I don't think reverse engineering would be the problem -- it'd be an incredible leap for them to believe you weren't trying to deceive them.
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I work on the Antebellum USN. (URL on request.) The differences in technology are interesting. I've seen long documents on the way copper protects ships from damage, and most of it is wrong, wrong, wrong. But they're trying to figure it out. No idea of a sacrificial anode at that time, IIRC.