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Title: The Ancient Engineers by Lyon Sprague De Camp ISBN: 0-345-32029-8 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ancient Engineers by Sprague de Camp
Comment: The author provides an outline of history for the engineering
profession. He explains how the first engineers were irrigators,
architects and inventors of simple machines. Memphis,Egypt
is cited as one of the initial engineering project sites.
The engineer, Imhotep is cited as an important architect
and mathematician in the building of the first pyramids. The
author explains how stones were sledded to the building site
over miles of roadways. Next, the author explains how
the Mesopotamian engineers built great temples. i.e. Marduk
The Chinese are credited with inventing cast iron.
The Greeks are extolled for inventing catapults, refinements
to temple architecture and mechanical engineering.
The Helenistic engineers are credited with the lever waterclock,
museums and advanced hulls on ships. The Roman engineers
are credited with their artful use of concrete, lead pipes
and lighthouses. Oriental engineers perfected the first pendentive dome, stone temples, the wheelbarrow and the
curved roof. European engineers improved metallurgical
processes, pirotechnia, statics, mechanics and kinetics.
The work is a good reference for any student contemplating
a science project in the engineering art. The book is
recommended highly for anyone desiring to trace the history
and evolution of the engineering sciences throughout key
periods of human history.
Rating: 3
Summary: So So History, and Not Enough Engineering
Comment: This is a well written book, easy to read and filled with fun information; however, it holds a lot of built in assumptions about history and sticks to views that are out of touch with new information. The engineering information is good, as far as I can tell, but there isn't enough of it. The book lacks illustrations that are critical to understanding engineering details and concepts.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good technical aspects, so-so history
Comment: A good intro to ancient engineering (largely civil engineering). But the author likes to reinterpret certain parts of history, and replace certain facts with his own opinion or speculation, especially in his discussion of Middle Eastern history. Apparently the author has missed the past 200 yrs of verification of biblical history.
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Title: Engineering in the Ancient World, Revised Edition by John G. Landels, J. G. Landels ISBN: 0520227824 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Ancient Inventions by Peter James, Nick Thorpe ISBN: 0345401026 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Engineering in History by Richard Shelton Kirby, Richard Kirby ISBN: 0486264122 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Ancient Mysteries by Peter James, Nick Thorpe ISBN: 0345434889 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Roman Engineers (Cambridge Introduction to the History of Mankind) by L. A. Hamey, J. A. Hamey ISBN: 0521225116 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1981 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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