The Ancient EngineersDoubleday, 1963 - 408 páginas This book is about those whose genius enabled the Egyptians to build their pyramids, the Phoenicians to cross stormy seas, the Romans to erect magnificent public buildings--that this carefully researched and fascinatingly written account of the advance of early technology has been written.Mr. de Camp describes the methods used by early irrigators, architects, and military engineers to build and maintain structures to serve their rulers' wants. He tells, for example, how the Pharaohs erected obelisks and pyramids, how Nebuchadnezzar fortified Babylon, how Dionysios' ordnance department invented the catapult, how the Chinese built the Great Wall, and how the Romans fashioned their roads, baths, sewers, and aqueducts. He recounts many intriguing anecdotes: an Assyrian king putting up no-parking signs in Nineveh; Plato inventing a water clock with an alarm to signal the start of his classes; Heron of Alexandria designing a coin-operated holy-water fountain; a Chinese emperor composing a poem to be inscribed on a clock invented by one of his civil servants. |
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... building to the roof garden . Servants , heaving on the windlass bars , kept water flowing up night and day from the well to the king's precious plants . West of the Hanging Gardens , filling the space between this edifice and the river ...
... building to the roof garden . Servants , heaving on the windlass bars , kept water flowing up night and day from the well to the king's precious plants . West of the Hanging Gardens , filling the space between this edifice and the river ...
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... building the Library , the Ptolemies made a far greater contribution to civilization than all their palaces and parades . Many rulers have sought eternal fame : some by conquest and massacre , some by building grandiose temples and ...
... building the Library , the Ptolemies made a far greater contribution to civilization than all their palaces and parades . Many rulers have sought eternal fame : some by conquest and massacre , some by building grandiose temples and ...
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... building more suitable for churches than the tem- ples of Zeus and Minerva and the rest . The most efficient plan for a church building was found to be that of the old Mediterranean basilica or town hall , where officials conducted ...
... building more suitable for churches than the tem- ples of Zeus and Minerva and the rest . The most efficient plan for a church building was found to be that of the old Mediterranean basilica or town hall , where officials conducted ...
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One The Coming of the Engineers | 1 |
Two The Egyptian Engineers | 18 |
Three The Mesopotamian Engineers | 46 |
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Agrippa Alexandria ancient aqueducts Arabs arch Archimedes architect Aristotle armor army Athens Babylon became began brick bridge bronze builders building built Byzantine called canal castle catapults centuries China Chinese civilization classical columns conquered Demetrios dome early Egypt Egyptian emperor Empire engineering Europe feet fire Frontinus galleys gear Greek Hadrian Hellenistic Hence Herodotos Heron Heron of Alexandria High Middle Ages horse houses Imhotep India invention iron irrigation kings Ktesibios Lake land later Leonardo mechanical medieval Mediterranean Mesopotamia Mesopotamian Middle Ages miles mill modern Mongols Muslim Nemi ships oars palaces Persian Philon Philon of Byzantium Phoenicians piers pipes probably Ptolemaios pyramid Renaissance river roads Roman Rome roof rowers sail Sennacherib shaft ships side siege statue stone structure temple took tower Trajan treadwheel tunnel turned vault Vitruvius wall water clock water wheel wooden