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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... early Empire ) the tradition lived on . Therefore Frontinus , Trajan's water commissioner , is not being merely patriotic when , in describing Rome's aqueducts , he bursts out : " With such an array of indispensable structures carrying ...
... early Empire ) the tradition lived on . Therefore Frontinus , Trajan's water commissioner , is not being merely patriotic when , in describing Rome's aqueducts , he bursts out : " With such an array of indispensable structures carrying ...
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... early Roman house was built on the Etruscan plan . The domus of a prosperous early Roman bourgeois had about a dozen rooms , ranged around a partly roofed court . There was a square hole in the roof to let in the rain and a cistern ...
... early Roman house was built on the Etruscan plan . The domus of a prosperous early Roman bourgeois had about a dozen rooms , ranged around a partly roofed court . There was a square hole in the roof to let in the rain and a cistern ...
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... early societies passes for divine wisdom . A great surge of supernaturalism , which took place under the Roman Empire , spilled over into science and technology . It helped to spread and dignify astrology , and it contaminated the ...
... early societies passes for divine wisdom . A great surge of supernaturalism , which took place under the Roman Empire , spilled over into science and technology . It helped to spread and dignify astrology , and it contaminated the ...
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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