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Author : Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761365230
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Ancient Machine Technology written by Michael Woods and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the machines created by ancient cultures.
Author : Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822529941
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Ancient Machines written by Michael Woods and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the invention of six simple machines in various ancient civilizations from the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202265
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Gods and Robots written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761372660
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Ancient Machine Technology written by Mary B. Woods and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761365265
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Ancient Agricultural Technology written by Michael Woods and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christopher Dunn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 159143968X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt written by Christopher Dunn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 076136529X
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Ancient Communication Technology written by Michael Woods and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the evolution of communication from ancient times, describing the development of writing, the alphabet, paper, writing instruments, and scrolls in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, India, and the Middle East.
Author : John William Humphrey
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313327636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Ancient Technology written by John William Humphrey and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes physical, ideological, and linguistic inventions of the ancient Mediterranean societies.
Author : Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books TM
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Machines through the Ages written by Michael Woods and published by Twenty-First Century Books TM. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient civilizations accomplished great works of engineering without electricity. From the Great Wall of China to Machu Picchu, discover the machines ancient civilizations used to build and how they influenced modern machines.
Author : Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761372717
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Ancient Computing Technology written by Mary B. Woods and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know . . . • Ancient cultures measured time accurately with water clocks? • An engineer in the first century B.C. designed an odometer to calculate distance traveled? • People computed the first values of pi about four thousand years ago? Computing technology is as old as human society itself. The first humans on Earth used basic computing skills. They counted by carving tally marks in bone. They used body parts and basic tools to measure. Over the centuries, ancient peoples learned more about computing. People in the ancient Middle East used scales to measure goods for trading. The ancient Egyptians wrote textbooks including multiplication and division problems. The ancient Chinese developed an abacus for speedy calculations. Ancient Greeks made advances in geometry. What kinds of tools and techniques did ancient mathematicians use? Which of their inventions and discoveries have stood the test of time? And how did the ancients set the stage for our own modern computing? Learn more in Ancient Computing Technology.
Author : Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761365222
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Ancient Medical Technology written by Michael Woods and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the medical advancements created by ancient cultures.
Author : Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761365273
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Ancient Construction Technology written by Michael Woods and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the technology used by ancient societies to create such monumental structures as temples, pyramids, walls, arches, and bridges, including the ancient civilizations of China, Greece, Rome, India, and the Middle East.
Author : Henry Hodges
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780880298933
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (989 download)
Download or read book Technology in the Ancient World written by Henry Hodges and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evaggelos G. Vallianatos
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 162734358X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)
Download or read book The Antikythera Mechanism written by Evaggelos G. Vallianatos and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and Its Demise, Evaggelos Vallianatos, historian and ecopolitical theorist, shows that after the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great in the late fourth century BCE, the Greeks, especially in Egypt, reached unprecedented heights of achievements in science, technology, and civilization. The Antikythera Mechanism, an astronomical computer probably crafted in Rhodes in the second century BCE, was proof of that prowess. It’s the grandfather of our computers. Greek sponge divers discovered the Antikythera Mechanism in 1900 on a 2,100-year-old Roman-era shipwreck. The hand-powered device reveals a sophisticated Greek technology previously unknown to scholars and historians, not seen and understood again until the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book not only describes how the sophisticated political and technological infrastructure of the Greeks after Alexander the Great resulted in the Antikythera celestial computer, and the bedrock of science and technology we know today, but also how the influence of Christianity on Greek civilization destroyed the nascent computer age of ancient Greece. Vallianatos, born in Greece and educated in America, is a historian, author, and journalist. He is a passionate champion of Greek culture and a well-suited guide to this historical account. Vallianatos explains how and why Greek scientists employed advanced engineering in translating the beautiful conception of the Antikythera Mechanism into an astronomical computer of genius: a bronze-geared device of mathematical astronomy, predicting the eclipses of the Sun and the Moon; calculating the risings and settings of important stars and constellations, and the movements of the planets around the Sun; while mechanizing the predictions of scientific theories. The computer’s accurate calendar connected these cosmic phenomena to the Olympics and other major Panhellenic religious and athletic celebrations, bringing the Greeks closer to their gods, traditions, and the Cosmos.
Author : Cesare Rossi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9048122538
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Ancient Engineers' Inventions written by Cesare Rossi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Brien Foerster
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300457996
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Lost Ancient Technology Of Peru And Bolivia written by Brien Foerster and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. James
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0345401026
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Ancient Inventions written by Peter J. James and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
