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800 year old four-dial combination lock with over 4.2 billion possible combos made by an Iranian astrolabe maker named Muhammad ibn Hamid al- Asturlabi.
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When discussing the "Fall of he Roman Empire", even historians/archaeologists are generally referencing the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 when Odoacer deposed the last western emperor.
Source: I majored in Near Eastern Classical Archaeology.
You're not wrong about the fall of the Byzantine Empire. And you're not wrong about the fact that they considered themselves Roman (At least at first. The farther into the past the fall of the west fell, it's debateable just how "connected" the average Byzantine felt to it.)
But referring to 1453 as "The Fall of the Roman Empire" is a "well..actually..." level of "technically correct" pedantry that even the professionals don't stoop to.