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Author : Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822529947
Discusses the invention of six simple machines in various ancient civilizations from the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire.
Author : Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761365235
Examines the machines created by ancient cultures.
Author : Hong-Sen Yan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402064609
South pointing chariots, walking machines and the astronomical mechanical clock are all used as illustrated examples in this fascinating and unique study of lost machinery in ancient China. This is the first book of its kind, combining creative mechanism design methodology with mechanical evolution and variation theory to set out how some ancient designs can be recreated. Furthermore the book reflects on how age-old wisdoms could stimulate stunning new machinery in the future.
Author : Mary B. Woods,Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761372660
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
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691202266
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 : Michael Woods,Mary Boyle Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822529963
Examines ancient methods of communication in the Middle East, India, China, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Mesoamerica.
Author : Thomas Ewbank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Pumping machinery
ISBN : NYPL:33433066422704
Author : Thomas Ewbank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Pumping machinery
ISBN : NYPL:33433066399753
Author : John Gray Landels
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0520034295
The Greeks and Romans were considerable engineers. They made many remarkable machines, which where not betttered until the Industrial Revolution. Landels shows how these machines were developed and made. He draws together evidence from archaeological discoveries and from literary sources.
Author : Robert Greenberger
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404205586
Describes the technology used by the ancient Chinese to help with agriculture, communication, calculations, transportation, medicine, and warfare.
Author : Thomas Ewbank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Hydraulic engineering
ISBN : WISC:89090523077
Author : Kuo-Hung Hsiao,Hong-Sen Yan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319020099
This book presents a unique approach for studying mechanisms and machines with drawings that were depicted unclearly in ancient Chinese books. The historical, cultural and technical backgrounds of the mechanisms are explained, and various mechanisms described and illustrated in ancient books are introduced. By utilizing the idea for the conceptual design of modern mechanisms, all feasible designs of ancient mechanisms with uncertain members and joints that meet the technical standards of the subjects’ time periods are synthesized systematically. Ancient Chinese crossbows (the original crossbow and repeating crossbows), textile mechanisms (silk-reeling mechanism, spinning mechanisms, and looms), and many other artisan's tool mechanisms are used as illustrated examples. Such an approach provides a logical method for the reconstruction designs of ancient mechanisms with uncertain structures. It also provides an innovative direction for researchers to further identify the original structures of mechanisms and machines with drawings in ancient literature. This book can be used as a textbook and/or supplemental reading material for courses related to history of ancient (Chinese) machinery and creative mechanism design for senior and graduate students.
Author : John Lord
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547506010
"Beacon Lights of History: Ancient Achievements" by John Lord. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Sarah Doherty
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784910617
Despite many years work on the technology of pottery production it is perhaps surprising that the origins of the potter's wheel in Egypt have yet to be determined. This volume seeks to rectify this situation by determining when the potter's wheel was introduced into Egypt.
Author : Brooke Holmes,Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110389302
Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History of Science at the Institute of Advanced Study and William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The papers range widely from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece and Rome, from the first millennium B.C. to the early medieval period, and from mathematics to philosophy, mechanics to medicine, representing both a wide diversity of national traditions and the cutting edge of the international scholarly community.