Ancient Machine Technology
Author | : Michael Woods |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761365230 |
Examines the machines created by ancient cultures.
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Author | : Michael Woods |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761365230 |
Examines the machines created by ancient cultures.
Author | : Mary B. Woods |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761372660 |
Did you know . . . • Ancient people used bows to drill holes and start fires? • The ancient Chinese built a machine to detect earthquakes? •The ancient Romans operated a factory for milling grain? Machine technology is as old as human society itself. The first humans on Earth used basic machines. They used stone axes to butcher meat. They use levers to pry roots and rocks from the ground. Over the centuries, ancient peoples learned to make more complicated machines. People in the ancient Middle East devised wheels and pulleys. The ancient Chinese created wheelbarrows and bellows. The ancient Greeks built big war machines. What kinds of tools and techniques did ancient craftspeople use? Which methods worked and which didn’t? And how did ancient machines set the stage for our own modern machines? Learn more in Ancient Machine Technology.
Author | : Adrienne Mayor |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2020-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691202265 |
Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
Author | : Christopher Dunn |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2010-06-24 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 159143968X |
A unique study of the engineering and tools used to create Egyptian monuments • Presents a stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statues of Ramses II and the tunnels of the Serapeum • Reveals that highly refined tools and mega-machines were used in ancient Egypt From the pyramids in the north to the temples in the south, ancient artisans left their marks all over Egypt, unique marks that reveal craftsmanship we would be hard pressed to duplicate today. Drawing together the results of more than 30 years of research and nine field study journeys to Egypt, Christopher Dunn presents a stunning stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statue of Ramses II at Luxor and the fallen crowns that lay at its feet. His modern-day engineering expertise provides a unique view into the sophisticated technology used to create these famous monuments in prehistoric times. Using modern digital photography, computer-aided design software, and metrology instruments, Dunn exposes the extreme precision of these monuments and the type of advanced manufacturing expertise necessary to produce them. His computer analysis of the statues of Ramses II reveals that the left and right sides of the faces are precise mirror images of each other, and his examination of the mysterious underground tunnels of the Serapeum illuminates the finest examples of precision engineering on the planet. Providing never-before-seen evidence in the form of more than 280 photographs, Dunn’s research shows that while absent from the archaeological record, highly refined tools, techniques, and even mega-machines must have been used in ancient Egypt.
Author | : Michael Woods |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0761365265 |
Describes the technology used by ancient farmers, covering the evolution of farming tools, irrigation methods, animal breeding, and the processing of crops, including the ancient civilizations of China, Greece, Rome, India, and the Middle East.
Author | : Michael Woods |
Publisher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780822529941 |
Discusses the invention of six simple machines in various ancient civilizations from the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Author | : Henry Hodges |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble Publishing |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Ancient world |
ISBN | : 9780880298933 |
Author | : Jo Marchant |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2010-10-19 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1459600096 |
In Decoding the Heavens, Jo Marchant tells for the first time the full story of the hundred-year quest to decipher the ancient Greek computer known as the Antikythera Mechanism. Along the way she unearths a diverse cast of remarkable characters and explores the deep roots of modern technology in ancient Greece and the medieval European and Islamic worlds. At its heart, this is an epic adventure and mystery, a book that challenges our assumptions about technology through the ages.
Author | : Peter J. James |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 702 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0345401026 |
A guide to ancient accomplishments and inventions unearths the origins of modern creations, including computers in ancient Greece, plastic surgery in India in the first century B.C., and a postal service in medieval Baghdad
Author | : Cesare Rossi |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2009-03-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9048122538 |
We live in an age in which one can easily think that our generation has invented and discovered almost everything; but the truth is quite the opposite. Progress cannot be considered as sudden unexpected spurts of individual brains: such a genius, the inventor of everything, has never existed in the history of humanity. What did exist was a limitless procession of experiments made by men who did not waver when faced with defeat, but were inspired by the rare successes that have led to our modern comfortable reality. And that continue to do so with the same enthusiasm. The study of the History of Engineering is valuable for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it can help us to understand the genius of the scientists, engineers and craftsmen who existed centuries and millenniums before us; who solved problems using the devices of their era, making machinery and equipment whose concept is of such a surprising modernity that we must rethink our image of the past.