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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... idea . By means of this canal , heavy grain freighters would have been able to sail safely to a point close to Rome . As it was , they had either to stop at Puteoli , which raised the cost of goods by requiring their transportation by ...
... idea . By means of this canal , heavy grain freighters would have been able to sail safely to a point close to Rome . As it was , they had either to stop at Puteoli , which raised the cost of goods by requiring their transportation by ...
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... ideas were Empedokles ' theory that all matter was made of four elements - earth , air , fire , and water - and Aristotle's asser- tion that these elements could change , one into the other . The third source of alchemy was an idea ...
... ideas were Empedokles ' theory that all matter was made of four elements - earth , air , fire , and water - and Aristotle's asser- tion that these elements could change , one into the other . The third source of alchemy was an idea ...
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... idea : a three - wheeled belfry in which the front wheel of the tricycle is mounted on a post that can be rotated by a steer- ing rope . So far so good ; but then Athenaios winds this rope around a drum on the main axle , so that , in ...
... idea : a three - wheeled belfry in which the front wheel of the tricycle is mounted on a post that can be rotated by a steer- ing rope . So far so good ; but then Athenaios winds this rope around a drum on the main axle , so that , in ...
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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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