Ancient Engineers' Inventions Precursors of the Present /

This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present. The period ranges mainly from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with several exceptions. Many of the oldest inventions are documented by archaeological finds, often very little known, mainly from Pompeii,...

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Main Authors: Rossi, Cesare. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Russo, Flavio. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:2nd ed. 2017.
Series:History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 33
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44476-5