The Ancient EngineersBallantine Books, 1974 - 450 páginas Traces the advancement of early invention and technology from the first recorded engineering project of early Egypt. |
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... roof over this porch . The Greeks never invented a true roof truss , wherein a series of beams are joined together to form a rigid structure made up of triangles . Instead , they relied upon an elaborate system of posts and lintels . As ...
... roof over this porch . The Greeks never invented a true roof truss , wherein a series of beams are joined together to form a rigid structure made up of triangles . Instead , they relied upon an elaborate system of posts and lintels . As ...
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... roof struc- tures of wood . As wood is more efficient for long beams than stone , their temples had more widely spaced columns and broader eaves than those of Greece . Etruscan builders covered the wooden roof structure with an ...
... roof struc- tures of wood . As wood is more efficient for long beams than stone , their temples had more widely spaced columns and broader eaves than those of Greece . Etruscan builders covered the wooden roof structure with an ...
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... roof their churches with vaults of stone and tile , because wooden roofs were always catching fire from sparks or lightning . As the people had no means of getting water up to such a height , such a fire always destroyed the whole ...
... roof their churches with vaults of stone and tile , because wooden roofs were always catching fire from sparks or lightning . As the people had no means of getting water up to such a height , such a fire always destroyed the whole ...
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One The Coming of the Engineers | 1 |
Two The Egyptian Engineers | 18 |
Three The Mesopotamian Engineers | 46 |
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Agrippa Alexandria ancient aqueducts Arabs arch Archimedes architect Aristotle armor army Assyrian Athens Babylon became began brick bridge bronze builders building built Byzantine called canal castle catapults centuries China Chinese civilization classical columns Demetrios dome early Egypt Egyptian emperor Empire engineering Europe feet fire Frontinus galleys gear Greek Hadrian Hellenistic Hence Herodotos Heron Heron of Alexandria High Middle Ages horse houses Imhotep India invention iron kings Ktesibios Lake land later Leonardo machine mechanical medieval Mediterranean Mesopotamia Mesopotamian Middle Ages miles mill modern Mongols Muslim Nemi ships oars palaces Persian Philon Philon of Byzantium Phoenicians piers pipes probably Ptolemaios pyramid Renaissance river roads Roman Rome roof rowers sail Sennacherib shaft ships side siege statue stone structure temple took tower Trajan treadwheel tunnel turned vault Vitruvius wall water clock water wheel wooden