Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

It is free for all Friday here on the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, CalfiGans, as aologist and speaker, Trent Horn.

Monday through Thursday, we talk apologetics, theology, how to explain the Catholic faith.

Friday though, the tables open, the doors are open, the automatic doors are open, the

automatic doors that were invented in ancient Greece, or at least a very early concept

idea of them.

That is what we're talking about today here on the Council of Trend Podcast.

Well, not just early automatic doors from ancient Greece, but five forms of technology that

are way older than you think.

Now you might think a lot of technology that we have was invented yesterday, like the

electric car, where the electric car come from.

Well, Elon Musk was just said, I'm going to make this company Tesla.

Here's your electric car.

There you go.

Though some of you might remember it, I mean, I remember electric cars before I ever heard

of Elon Musk.

So the first ones I remember, I remember watching, I think it was a documentary on national

geographic that talked about not just electric cars, they were solar cars.

They were cars that had solar panels on top of them, and they were really, really low

to the ground.

One room for one guy to lay back in and scrunch in, and they would test them out on the salt

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