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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... began , and engineers began to take advantage of the bril- liant scientific discoveries of the time . The Industrial Revolution , which started two centuries ago and is still going on , was a surge in the growth of technology . Barring ...
... began , and engineers began to take advantage of the bril- liant scientific discoveries of the time . The Industrial Revolution , which started two centuries ago and is still going on , was a surge in the growth of technology . Barring ...
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... began to recover . Mining revived in Muslim Spain and in Central Europe . Coinage , which had almost van- ished , came back into use . Venice began her career as the leading ship- ping center of the Inner Sea . And brisk manufacturing ...
... began to recover . Mining revived in Muslim Spain and in Central Europe . Coinage , which had almost van- ished , came back into use . Venice began her career as the leading ship- ping center of the Inner Sea . And brisk manufacturing ...
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... began to write of the " wonderful discoveries of this modern age " and to wonder aloud what would happen next . For that matter , we are still wondering . The pace of change has speeded up until change itself has become one of the most ...
... began to write of the " wonderful discoveries of this modern age " and to wonder aloud what would happen next . For that matter , we are still wondering . The pace of change has speeded up until change itself has become one of the most ...
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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