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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... age to age , but in a capricious and faddish manner . People have often abandoned some canon of beauty in painting ... ages of history , one human institution - technology -has plodded ahead . While empires rose and fell , forms of ...
... age to age , but in a capricious and faddish manner . People have often abandoned some canon of beauty in painting ... ages of history , one human institution - technology -has plodded ahead . While empires rose and fell , forms of ...
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... Age produced the greatest sculptors of all time . Never has any people gone in for statuary with such enthusiasm . At ... Ages , when Christianity taught people to despise pagan art . Rulers melted the bronzen statues for money , while ...
... Age produced the greatest sculptors of all time . Never has any people gone in for statuary with such enthusiasm . At ... Ages , when Christianity taught people to despise pagan art . Rulers melted the bronzen statues for money , while ...
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... Age of Muslim Spain , without being able to stop the advance of the Christian states . Their fanaticism aroused a ... Ages , especially by people who idealize this stage of man's his- tory . During these centuries , the things that we ...
... Age of Muslim Spain , without being able to stop the advance of the Christian states . Their fanaticism aroused a ... Ages , especially by people who idealize this stage of man's his- tory . During these centuries , the things that we ...
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One The Coming of the Engineers | 13 |
Two The Egyptian Engineers | 28 |
Three The Mesopotamian Engineers | 53 |
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Agrippa Alexandria ancient aqueducts Arabic arch Archimedes architect Aristotle armor army Assyrian Athens Babylon became began brick bridge bronze builders building built Byzantine called canal castle catapult centuries China Chinese civilization classical columns conquered Demetrios dome early Egypt Egyptian emperor Empire engineering Europe feet fire Frontinus galleys gear Greece Greek Hadrian harbor Hellenistic Hence Herodotos Heron Heron of Alexandria High Middle Ages horse houses Imhotep India invention iron irrigation kings Ktesibios Lake land later Leonardo machine mechanical medieval Mediterranean Mesopotamia Mesopotamian Middle Ages miles mill modern Mongols mounted Muslim oars palaces Persian Philon Philon of Byzantium Phoenicians piers pipes Plinius probably pyramid river roads Roman Rome roof rowers sail Sennacherib shaft ships side siege statue stone structure temple took tower Trajan treadwheel tunnel turned vault vessel Vitruvius wall water clock water wheel wind wooden