ISBN:
9789048122530
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XVI, 340 p, online resource)
Series Statement:
History of Mechanism and Machine Science 8
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Rossi, Cesare Ancient engineers' inventions
Keywords:
Social sciences
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History
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Engineering design
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Machinery
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Archaeology
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Social Sciences
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Archaeology
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Engineering
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Engineering design
;
Science History
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Griechenland
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Technik
;
Geschichte
;
Römisches Reich
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Technik
;
Geschichte
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Antike
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Technik
;
Griechenland
;
Technik
;
Geschichte
;
Römisches Reich
;
Antike
Abstract:
This book describes inventions and designs of ancient engineers that are the precursors of the present. The ages mainly range from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with some exceptions from before and after this period. As for the very ancient ones, the book describes inventions (documented by archaeological finds mainly from Pompei, Ercolano and Stabia) that generally are very little known and sometimes not known at all. Some inventions are in the military field. This is because (unfortunately) many inventions and technological innovations have been conceived starting from military applications. The boo
Description / Table of Contents:
Measuring Mass; Measuring Distance; Measuring Time; Ancient Computation Devices; Wind Motors; Hydraulic Motors; Lifting Water; Adduction and Distribution of Water; Underwater Activities; Lift and Transports; Telecommunications; Secondary Motors; Spinning and Weaving; Some Applications of Fire; Automata (Towards Automation and Robots); Considerations on Some Ancient Building Techniques;
Note:
In: Springer-Online
DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-2253-0
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