The Ancient EngineersTraces the advancement of early invention and technology from the first recorded engineering project of early Egypt. |
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An inscribed tablet marked the place where the two tunneling gangs , starting from points a third of a mile apart and boring from opposite directions ... At last they join and flow together for fifty miles into the Persian Gulf .
An inscribed tablet marked the place where the two tunneling gangs , starting from points a third of a mile apart and boring from opposite directions ... At last they join and flow together for fifty miles into the Persian Gulf .
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Although it began only seven miles from Rome , the total length of its winding course was ten miles . Nearly all traces of this aqueduct , including its one small 100 - yard arcade , have now disappeared . Forty years later the censors ...
Although it began only seven miles from Rome , the total length of its winding course was ten miles . Nearly all traces of this aqueduct , including its one small 100 - yard arcade , have now disappeared . Forty years later the censors ...
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As far back as early -IV , some Roman magistrate undertook to drain Lake Albanus , fourteen miles southeast of Rome . He drove a tunnel a mile and a third long , to lead off the water . This tunnel still serves its purpose , and the ...
As far back as early -IV , some Roman magistrate undertook to drain Lake Albanus , fourteen miles southeast of Rome . He drove a tunnel a mile and a third long , to lead off the water . This tunnel still serves its purpose , and 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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Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Ancient Engineers |
| Autor | Lyon Sprague De Camp |
| Editor | Ballantine Books, 1963 |
| ISBN | 0345237838, 9780345237835 |
| Largo | 408 páginas |
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