This might be the most painful and worst torture devices ever created - and its inventor was eventually tortured using the same method.
This story may be the cautionary tale behind the invention, but it also highlights one thing and it's the fact that humans have come up with numerous ways to kill and punish each other.
You'd like to think that everyone had a clean mind, but some are twisted enough to conjure these torturous methods.
And this simulation shows just how brutal the method was, and the man at fault is named Perilaus of Athens, an inventor in Ancient Greece, who created the 'Brazen Bull' about in approximately 600-560 BCE.
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The terrifying invention was a huge bronze structure shaped like a bull in the size of one, with a catch on its back and a pipe to breath out of the bull's mouth.
Perilaus created the Brazen Bull with the idea of putting someone inside, lighting a fire below the belly of the bull and effectively cooking the victim like a Christmas turkey.
As they would struggle to breath in there, a pipe is attached to the bull's mouth on the inside, with any screams transformed into the sound of a bull while letting out steam.
It's fitting then that the creator thought that the creation should belong to Phalaris, the tyrant of the Sicilian state of Akragas.
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It was rumoured that Phalaris was a cannibal that ate newborn babies - so either he was a sick man who actually did that, or people disliked him enough to create the story.
Although it is unknown if the tyrant paid Perileus to create the torture device for him, but it was something that the inventor and most people thought the tyrannical leader would enjoy.
But this is the story of how the inventor himself fell victim to his own creation, as it turns out that doing something for a tyrant doesn't mean that you're necessarily on his good side.
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Phalaris asked Perileus to get in the bull to test if they could hear the screams, but he instead locked him inside, lighting a fire under the bull to make him the first victim.
Poetic, really.
Luckily though, Phalaris spared him from being cooked alive by letting him out before he died - how thoughtful.
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That's not to say though, that the tyrant wasn't going to murder the inventor.
He instead gave Perileus a ticket to hell by throwing him off a hill to his gruesome death.
Phalaris loved the Brazen Bull, using it until his downfall in 554 BC, as he particularly enjoyed how the bull rocked back and forth as the person inside tries to escape.
He did later pay the price though, as when he was overthrown, the public put him in the Brazen Bull and gave him a taste of his own medicine.
Joshua Nair