SUMMARYThe mercury stories (Nov 6, 2026). Record (texts): Bhoja's Samarangana Sutradhara 31.95–98, a wooden bird-machine with mercury in four pots heated by slow fire, rising "by the power of roaring mercury"; the text says it withholds construction details (verse to verify). Bhaskara II (c. 1150), a mercury wheel said to turn forever. Aristotle, De Anima 406b: Daedalus made a wooden Aphrodite move by pouring quicksilver in. Sima Qian, Shiji 6: Qin Shi Huang's tomb rivers of mercury made to flow by machinery; vapor measured 2020. Al-Muradi (11th c., al-Andalus) and Alfonso X's Libros del saber (1277): mercury in clocks and automata. Record (modern): mercury-vapor turbines 1922–50 (P763)
CODEthe metal is named Mercury after the winged messenger god (Hermes/Thoth); in Sanskrit it is rasa-raja, king of liquids. Pattern: across India, Greece, China and al-Andalus, mercury is the thing that makes machines move
OPENno ancient mercury engine found; Rasa Shastra texts on mercury and sky-going (khecara) need deep research. Added 6 rows to oldtech (59 total).