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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... wooden posts . Stone re- placed brick in the walls . Stone architraves - the long hori- zontal members resting on top of the columns and holding up the roof - took the place of wooden lintels . Statuary filled the pediments - the ...
... wooden posts . Stone re- placed brick in the walls . Stone architraves - the long hori- zontal members resting on top of the columns and holding up the roof - took the place of wooden lintels . Statuary filled the pediments - the ...
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... wooden structural elements . Greek builders even imitated the pegs that held the ancestral wooden structure together by adding little stone knobs called “ drops . ” In spite of the emotional effect that Greek temples have on the modern ...
... wooden structural elements . Greek builders even imitated the pegs that held the ancestral wooden structure together by adding little stone knobs called “ drops . ” In spite of the emotional effect that Greek temples have on the modern ...
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... wooden buildings . Hence these pseudo - arches and pseudo- vaults in solid stone . In fact , the masons copied the details of wooden construction with such meticulous care that we know quite a lot about the wooden buildings of Buddhist ...
... wooden buildings . Hence these pseudo - arches and pseudo- vaults in solid stone . In fact , the masons copied the details of wooden construction with such meticulous care that we know quite a lot about the wooden buildings of Buddhist ...
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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