The ingenuity of the construction techniques used by Greek builders 2,000 years ago continues to dazzle the world. What did these ancient engineers get right? And how does looking to the past help ...
He wrote extensively about the design of buildings and bridges and how they failed. He also examined the history of commonplace objects like the pencil. By Richard Sandomir Henry Petroski, who ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Technology and Culture is the quarterly interdisciplinary journal of the Society for the History of Technology. The international ...
On Native American Heritage Day, we examine a long-overlooked marvel of ancient engineering that had been tucked away beneath ...
THIS is an English edition of a book published in America, and contains the outcome of six lectures delivered at the Cooper Union in New York, under the auspices of Columbia University. The first part ...
The ancient Inca built a complex system of roads that span some 20,000 miles and range in altitude from sea level to 14,000 feet, all without the benefit of special tools or even a formal writing ...
The ancient Nabataeans' water storage and irrigation system was a marvel of engineering. It was the biggest reason they were able to thrive in the harsh desert for hundreds of years. A Final Takeoff ...
As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman ...
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