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A 19th-century painting that appeared to depict a woman using an iPhone hundreds of years before it was invented sparked the imagination of social media users who said she might be a time traveler.
The 1860 work – ‘The Expected One’ by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller – is just the latest in a series of evidence of seemingly modern technology to emerge in historic photographs and artwork.
People are seen wearing what appear to be satellites and laptops – or “modern” clothes such as oversized sunglasses that wouldn’t look out of place at a Yeezy fashion show and logo-printed T-shirts that only became popular of late. 20th century.
However, experts told DailyMail.com that this is just a sign of the times. While modern people will see remnants of our own time in these devices, those who lived at the time when the art was created would easily recognize the creator’s intentions.
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The Expected One’ by Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüllerin appears to show a woman operating an iPhone
For example, what we see with our modern eyes as a smartphone or a laptop would be recognized as a prayer book or a jewelry box to those who lived centuries ago.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, explained to DailyMail.com that these “tourists of the future” wouldn’t be using our current technology if they were real-time travelers.
“Why would time travelers who come from the future – when time travel was invented – still use cell phones?” he explained.
“Wouldn’t it make more sense if they used something less visible and had technology we’re not familiar with?”
The expected
Internet users came across this image as an image of a woman “using an iPhone” – in a painting from the 1800s.
‘The Expected One’ is an 1860 painting by the Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmüllerin. It is currently in the Neue Pinakothek Museum in Munich, Germany.
It shows a distracted young girl walking down a prairie path with a young boy waiting to surprise her with a flower at an upcoming turn.
But the pose and the seeming ignorance of what’s being displayed by the girl ahead seems eerily familiar – it looks like she’s looking at her phone.
Gerald Weinpolter, CEO of the Austrian-paintings art agency said MotherBoard“The girl in this painting by Waldmüller is not playing with her new iPhone X, but goes to church with a prayer book in her hands.”
Retired Glasgow man Peter Russell told MotherBoard, “The big change is that in 1850 or 1860 any viewer would have identified the item the girl is absorbed in as a hymnal or a prayer book.”
The time-travelling hipster
Are these clothes really from 1941?
In 2011 a photo from 1941 appeared on the internet showing a modern dressed man.
Many called the unknown man, with tight sunglasses, a cardigan over a sweater and a scruffy haircut, the “time-traveling hipster,”
He looks like someone you would see wandering the streets of Manhattan or Los Angeles today and stands out from the crowd of appropriately dressed people next to him.
However, the clothes this fashionable dude wore would make sense for the times.
The photo is from the Bralorne Pioneer Museum and shows the reopening of the South Fork Bridge in Gold Bridge, British Columbia.
The sunglasses the man was wearing are wrap-around glasses that first appeared on the American market in the 1920s.
His T-shirt also features the logo of the Montreal Maroons, a professional hockey team that played in the National Hockey League from 1924 to 1938.
While his fashion may have been ahead of his time, this man is dressed in clothes that would make sense for 1941.
The ‘folding phone’ at the 1962 World Cup
Brazil triumphed over Czechoslovakia in the 1962 World Cup final, but it’s the device a photographer is holding that captured a photo of captain Mauro Ramos hoisting the infamous trophy.
It seems that the person in the media battle is holding a flip phone, which only came out in 1996 and wasn’t popular until the mid-2000s.
Why does anyone use what appears to be a flip phone?
Given that flip phones are now largely out of fashion, this suggests that the time traveler may have come from the year 2007 or thereabouts, when the Motorola Razor ruled the world.
The fixation with mocking 21st-century technology highlights just how silly such “time-traveler” stories really are, Watson told DailyMail.com.
It is likely that this photographer is actually holding a box camera.
The time-adjusted device can be operated with one hand.
In this case, it looks like there’s an attachment attached on top – probably a flashlight.
God, Jesus and a Sputnik satellite
God and Jesus appear to be holding a Sputnik satellite
Bonaventura Salimbeni’s artwork titled “Glorification of the Eucharist” has caught the attention of UFO enthusiasts for its depiction of what appears to be God and Jesus tinkering with a Sputnik-like satellite.
The spherical object in question is a representation of the celestial sphere, which symbolizes the universe.
Many paintings featuring ‘UFOs’ were featured in a book, ‘As the Ancient Chronicles Relate’ by Roberto Volterri.
But art experts dismissed Volterri’s claims.
Martin Kemp, professor of art history at the University of Oxford, says: ‘Many artists used their imagination to depict celestial or sacred forces.’
Ancient Greek statue ‘using a laptop with USB ports’
IS this woman USING a laptop complete with USB ports?
An ancient Greek statue – “Grave Naiskos of an Enthroned Woman with an Attendant” at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu – appears to show a woman using a laptop.
At least that’s what internet users thought. But the reality is a bit more prosaic.
Jeff Hurwit, a professor of art history and classics at the University of Oregon, said, “The ‘USB ports’ are drill holes for attaching a bronze object, or perhaps a separate piece of marble.
“The ‘laptop’ is really a shallow box or tray with a lid from which the woman is about to select a piece of jewelry, as often seen on funerary reliefs like this one.”
Woman ‘using a cell phone’ at the Charlie Chaplin premiere
Conspiracy theorists seized on the fact that a woman appears to be using a cell phone in a DVD extra of Charlie Chaplin’s movie The Circus.
The woman was captured on film during the premiere of Chaplin’s film at Graumann’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.
The Circus was filmed in 1928: the clip was dug up by filmmaker George Clarke and became a hot topic of conversation worldwide.
But it was debunked – the woman is holding a hearing aid that happens to be elongated.
Speaking to Live Science, Philip Skroska, an archivist at Washington University’s Bernard Becker Medical Library in St. Louis, said, “As you can see from these old-fashioned mechanical or resonant hearing aids, they weren’t necessarily long and round. Short, compact rectangular shapes were not unusual.’
Nicolas Cage’s doppelgänger from 1800
Nicolas Cage and his Civil War doppelgänger
In 2011, an eBay seller tried to sell an antique Civil War portrait for more than $1 million.
The high price was due to the fact that the man in the photo bears a striking resemblance to Hollywood star Nicolas Cage.
The unknown man was photographed in 1870 and is believed to have lived in Bristol, Tennessee.
After it appeared, many began speculating that the “Night at the Museum” star was actually a time traveler or vampire.
Jack Mord, the eBay seller who marketed the photo for the exorbitant price, even called it “Nicolas Cage is a vampire.”
Mr. Cage addressed the rumored David Letterman show a year later, saying, “Look, I don’t drink blood, and the last time I looked in the mirror I had a reflection.”
“So I’m not going with his vampire theory. I’m just not going to do it.’