Ancient Machine Technology

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.

Ancient Machine Technology

Ancient Machine Technology
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.

Gods and Robots

Gods and Robots
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.

Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt

Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt
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.

Ancient Agricultural Technology

Ancient Agricultural Technology
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.

Ancient Machines

Ancient Machines
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.

Decoding the Heavens

Decoding the Heavens
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.

Ancient Inventions

Ancient Inventions
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

Ancient Engineers' Inventions

Ancient Engineers' Inventions
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.