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Neither of those things about blood were true. You add carbon to the surface of and fold it in to get steel, and damascus steel was the result of rare impurities getting included in that variant. The strength of Roman concrete was due to it using volcanic ash and rock which reacted with sea water to form strong mineral structures, which is why Roman concrete exposed to seawater is more durable than normal concrete exposed to seawater.
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* Some forms of technology can sound like magic.
** Steel is carbonized iron, e.g. a molten iron sword smothered in blood. "This sword was bathed in the blood of [[VirginSacrifice a virgin sacrificed]] to the WarGod." Damascus Steel, in particular, has turned out to follow Clarke's Law surprisingly closely. We have now reproduced a superior version of Damascus Steel with the mystical 'carbon nanotube'.
** Speaking of blood, the ancient Romans infused their cement mix with the blood of animal sacrifices to curry the gods' favor, unknowingly aerating it and thus producing stronger concrete than would be available for ''centuries'' after the fall of Rome. How much stronger? It's the only reason their ruins are still standing after all this time.
** The Mongol shamans' practice of boiling drinking water to drive away "evil spirits."
** Steel is carbonized iron, e.g. a molten iron sword smothered in blood. "This sword was bathed in the blood of [[VirginSacrifice a virgin sacrificed]] to the WarGod." Damascus Steel, in particular, has turned out to follow Clarke's Law surprisingly closely. We have now reproduced a superior version of Damascus Steel with the mystical 'carbon nanotube'.
** Speaking of blood, the ancient Romans infused their cement mix with the blood of animal sacrifices to curry the gods' favor, unknowingly aerating it and thus producing stronger concrete than would be available for ''centuries'' after the fall of Rome. How much stronger? It's the only reason their ruins are still standing after all this time.
** The Mongol shamans' practice of boiling drinking water to drive away "evil spirits."
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* Some forms of technology can sound like magic.
** Steel is carbonized iron, e.g. a molten iron sword smothered in blood. "This sword was bathed in the blood of [[VirginSacrifice a virgin sacrificed]] to the WarGod." Damascus Steel, in particular, has turned out to follow Clarke's Law surprisingly closely. We have now reproduced a superior version of Damascus Steel with the mystical 'carbon nanotube'.
** Speaking of blood, the ancient Romans infused their cement mix with the blood of animal sacrifices to curry the gods' favor, unknowingly aerating it and thus producing stronger concrete than would be available for ''centuries'' after the fall of Rome. How much stronger? It's the only reason their ruins are still standing after all this time.
**The Mongol shamans' practice of boiling drinking water to drive away "evil spirits.""
* Similar to the above, ancient people noted the ability of silver drinking vessels to keep water potable longer than clay, stone, or wood. At the time it was attributed to it being silver like the moon, and thus magic. We now know about silver's antimicrobial properties.
** Steel is carbonized iron, e.g. a molten iron sword smothered in blood. "This sword was bathed in the blood of [[VirginSacrifice a virgin sacrificed]] to the WarGod." Damascus Steel, in particular, has turned out to follow Clarke's Law surprisingly closely. We have now reproduced a superior version of Damascus Steel with the mystical 'carbon nanotube'.
** Speaking of blood, the ancient Romans infused their cement mix with the blood of animal sacrifices to curry the gods' favor, unknowingly aerating it and thus producing stronger concrete than would be available for ''centuries'' after the fall of Rome. How much stronger? It's the only reason their ruins are still standing after all this time.
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* Similar to the above, ancient people noted the ability of silver drinking vessels to keep water potable longer than clay, stone, or wood. At the time it was attributed to it being silver like the moon, and thus magic. We now know about silver's antimicrobial properties.
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* In ''Fanfic/ExitumEternal'', the Exitum runs on a mixture of magic and science. Interestingly, the Citadel races believe that this is actually some kind of advanced technology that either the Exitum does not fully understand, or their translators are unable to impart the concept.
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* In ''Fanfic/ExitumEternal'', ''Fanfic/ExitiumEternal'', the Exitum Exitium runs on a mixture of magic and science. Interestingly, the Citadel races believe that this is actually some kind of advanced technology that either the Exitum Exitium does not fully understand, or their translators are unable to impart the concept.
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* ''Webcomic/TheAdventurousScarletCarolusAndTheMachineOfEternalSummer'' features the eponymous weather machine, [[https://www.sandraandwoo.com/scarlet/comic/the-machine-of-eternal-summer-007/ plasma guns powered by energy crystals]], and other gadgets of various size.
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* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' also very often uses the same as its sister series and adaptation above, throguhout it though, there's some more prominent examples.
** The first series in the franchise to apply this trope is ''Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger''. While the motiff of the series is vehicles and as always they use a large mecha, the team's powers derive from the magic of their ally Seelon, the last fairy alive, who Dr. Dazai specifically built all the team's equipment to be powered by.
** ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' is ''the'' magic-themed season of the series, as the titular team become and learn to be mages to stop an invasion. Their spells are done by dialing numbers in their flip-phone changers.
** Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger features a team of angels that drag the powers of their mecha and gear from ancient angelic-powers.
** The first series in the franchise to apply this trope is ''Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger''. While the motiff of the series is vehicles and as always they use a large mecha, the team's powers derive from the magic of their ally Seelon, the last fairy alive, who Dr. Dazai specifically built all the team's equipment to be powered by.
** ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' is ''the'' magic-themed season of the series, as the titular team become and learn to be mages to stop an invasion. Their spells are done by dialing numbers in their flip-phone changers.
** Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger features a team of angels that drag the powers of their mecha and gear from ancient angelic-powers.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicKey'': One episode features Zandoodle, an "inventor wizard" who makes this for a living.
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* ''WesternAnimation/JadeArmor'':
** Black Tiger knows how to combine her gadgets with Shards increasing their power and giving them the magic of the Shards.
** Will has created a drone that can integreate with the Crimson Lord and nearly perfectly replicate all the magical powers of his missing Beasticons.
** Black Tiger knows how to combine her gadgets with Shards increasing their power and giving them the magic of the Shards.
** Will has created a drone that can integreate with the Crimson Lord and nearly perfectly replicate all the magical powers of his missing Beasticons.
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* ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOkay'': Ever since Ron got an interest in Muggle space travel, his goal throughout the story is to invent working magical rockets and travel to the moon. For his OWL Runes project, he manages to invent self-refilling fuel tanks, and for his NEWT project, he invents a full rocket ship prototype with features like an Unbreakable superstructure, charms used on broomsticks for maneuvering, and a Protean charmed alchemic silver globe for navigation.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness The Light]] seems to be fond of mixing magic, biology, and technologies to carry out their EvilPlan. Their ultimate goal for season one is using "techno-sorcery" to create [[spoiler:Starrotech, which uses magic to fuse bits of Starro's body with nanobots to create the ultimate mind-control weapon]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness The the Light]] seems to be fond of mixing magic, biology, and technologies to carry out their EvilPlan. Their ultimate goal for season one is using "techno-sorcery" to create [[spoiler:Starrotech, which uses magic to fuse bits of Starro's body with nanobots to create the ultimate mind-control weapon]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' had an episode where Lex realized he could use his clingy girlfriend [[HotWitch Tala]] as a power supply for his device to bring Brainiac back to life. [[spoiler:She screws him over in revenge by bringing back Darkseid instead.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' had an In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode where "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E12Alive Alive!]]", Lex realized realizes that he could can use his clingy girlfriend [[HotWitch Tala]] as a power supply for his device to bring Brainiac back to life. [[spoiler:She screws him over in revenge by bringing back Darkseid instead.]]
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** Some of the ''ComicBook/IronMan'' armours such as his Uru armor and Mysterium armor are as much supernatural in nature as they are cutting-edge MadScientist technology.
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** The Foundation themselves have also used some of their anomalies to construct various impossible pieces of technology. Examples include [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2669 SCP-2669]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2798 SCP-2798]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/olympia-project the Olympia Project]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/djkaktus-s-proposal djkaktus's Proposal I]].
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* The plot of ''Anime/Cyborg009VsDevilman'' involves a MadScientist working for Black Ghost building a cyborg body for a demon to possess, in hopes of making the perfect killing machine.
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* The plot of ''Franchise/{{Devilman}} vs. Manga/Cyborg009'' involves a MadScientist working for Black Ghost building a cyborg body for a demon to possess, in hopes of making the perfect killing machine.
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': While the [[TransformationRay transformation gun]] is a piece of [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum alien technology]] -- with different forms programmed on Tedd's computer and replaceable parts -- it definitely uses magic to operate. However, there's not very much magitek in the setting. (Unless you consider the Uryuom-human hybrids as biomagitek.)
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': While the [[TransformationRay transformation gun]] is a piece of [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum alien technology]] -- with different forms programmed on Tedd's computer and replaceable parts -- it definitely uses magic to operate. However, there's not very much magitek in the setting. (Unless you consider the Uryuom-human hybrids as biomagitek.)) Tedd ''thought'' [[spoiler: he'd turned a Nintendo Powerglove into a device that could enchant objects, but it turned out he had a natural gift for that he knew nothing about, and the glove wasn't doing anything]].
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** ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' plays this trope as straight as it can be, as the Riders explicitly use magic, but require rather technological looking belts to do so. The main weapon of TheHero is also a sword, which turns into a gun, that shoots magical homing bullets.
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** ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' plays this trope as straight as it can be, as the Riders explicitly use magic, but require rather technological looking belts to do so. The main weapon of TheHero is also a sword, which turns into a gun, that shoots magical homing bullets. [[spoiler: Justified. As the BigBad of the series combined science and sorcery to become a wizard himself, as well as creating the other wizards through this process.]]
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The UrExample is Creator/RobertAHeinlein's 1940 novella "Literature/MagicInc". It takes place in a (then) present-day in which, for example, your taxi is a flying carpet, but otherwise the same (cabbie, meter, and so on). The TropeNamer is ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', where the [[TheEmpire Gestahlian Empire]] had suits of PowerArmor, dozens of HumongousMecha, and fleets of [[MiniMecha flying Mini Mecha]], armed with various lasers and missiles [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powered by the life essence]] of enslaved magical creatures. [[{{Woolseyism}} Courtesy of Ted Woolsey's translations]], this fantastic science and the inventions using it became known under the blanket term "Magitek."
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The UrExample can be found in various ancient mythologies, each of which usually has a craftsman god who empowers their inventions with magic. For example, Myth/ClassicalMythology has Hephaestus, who created supernatural automatons by combining metallurgy with magic. The more modern TropeCodifier is Creator/RobertAHeinlein's 1940 novella "Literature/MagicInc". It takes place in a (then) present-day in which, for example, your taxi is a flying carpet, but otherwise the same (cabbie, meter, and so on). The TropeNamer is ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', where the [[TheEmpire Gestahlian Empire]] had suits of PowerArmor, dozens of HumongousMecha, and fleets of [[MiniMecha flying Mini Mecha]], armed with various lasers and missiles [[PoweredByAForsakenChild powered by the life essence]] of enslaved magical creatures. [[{{Woolseyism}} Courtesy of Ted Woolsey's translations]], this fantastic science and the inventions using it became known under the blanket term "Magitek."
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* In ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'', the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell spaceship]] captured by the [[MenInBlack Fortean Studies Bureau]] is found to have demonic rituals powering at least some of its system. NASA later has the idea of doing something similar (though probably without using the Roswell incident as inspiration, given its classified nature), as they use all kinds of [[DeflectorShields magic wards]] and other mystical doodads to create a working Martian lander to one-up the Soviet moon landing.
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* In ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'', the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell spaceship]] captured by the [[MenInBlack [[TheMenInBlack Fortean Studies Bureau]] is found to have demonic rituals powering at least some of its system. NASA later has the idea of doing something similar (though probably without using the Roswell incident as inspiration, given its classified nature), as they use all kinds of [[DeflectorShields magic wards]] and other mystical doodads to create a working Martian lander to one-up the Soviet moon landing.
