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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... India , a peninsula jutting out from the continent of Asia , having just about the same area and population as Europe . Although civilization in India is almost as old as in Iraq , much less is known of its ancient history . There are ...
... India , a peninsula jutting out from the continent of Asia , having just about the same area and population as Europe . Although civilization in India is almost as old as in Iraq , much less is known of its ancient history . There are ...
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... Indian social system affected India's technology . It made the country extremely con- servative . It purchased order and stability at the cost of progress and adaptability . Indian workmanship shows the qualities to be expected when the ...
... Indian social system affected India's technology . It made the country extremely con- servative . It purchased order and stability at the cost of progress and adaptability . Indian workmanship shows the qualities to be expected when the ...
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... India , dis- covered that the Indians made suspension bridges held up by iron chains . Ancient India was one of the few lands where the secret of good steel was known . In Roman times , two of the world's main iron centers were Austria ...
... India , dis- covered that the Indians made suspension bridges held up by iron chains . Ancient India was one of the few lands where the secret of good steel was known . In Roman times , two of the world's main iron centers were Austria ...
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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