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Author : Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822529941
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
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761365230
Examines the machines created by ancient cultures.
Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691202265
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 : Mary B. Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761372660
Did you know . . . • Ancient people used bows to drill holes and start fires? • The ancient Chinese built a machine to detect earthquakes? •The ancient Romans operated a factory for milling grain? 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 : Hong-Sen Yan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2007-11-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1402064608
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 : Anthony Acciavatti
Publisher : ORO Applied Research + Design
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780982622612
Beyond the dense urbanism of Mumbai (Bombay) or the IT centers of Bangalore and Hyderabad lies the Ganges River basin--today home to over one-quarter of India's billion-plus population--a space historically defined by a mythological constellation of terrestrial sites imbued with celestial significance. Not only is it one of the most densely populated river basins in the world, but it also undergoes dramatic physical changes with the onslaught of the wet monsoon, where over one-meter of rainfall occurs in the span of three months. This book focuses on the intersection of these two observations. It is an atlas of built and unbuilt projects designed to transform the river into a giant water machine. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, this mythical watercourse has functioned as a laboratory to test and build a new civilization around the culture of water. Jointly authored by people and nature, the Ganges River is today a monstrous water machine in which the entire basin became a workshop of human-made experience, defined by a hydrological system best described as a supersurface: a surface engineered from the scale of the soil to the scale of the nation. Everything from diffuse urban projects and green revolutions to colossal public works programs and architectural transformations constitute the genesis of the Ganges Water Machine. Whether to thwart massive peasant uprisings or to redirect monsoonal rains to productive ends, never before has a river that inspired the realization of unbelievable architectural and infrastructural projects received as little scrutiny as the Ganges river basin. Reaching through the very heart of some of India s most densely populated cities, small towns, industrial zones, sacred sites, and mountainous forests, Ganges Water Machine by Anthony Acciavatti, composed of eight years of field and archival research, explores and theorizes the people and infrastructures that shaped this territory. Ganges Water Machine is an atlas of the enterprise to make the Ganges River basin into a highly engineered landscape: it reveals the narratives and explanations that allowed engineers and planners to realize fantasies previously only imaginable on paper or in myth.
Author : Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books TM
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 2024-01-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN :
Ancient civilizations accomplished great works of engineering without electricity. From the Great Wall of China to Machu Picchu, discover the machines ancient civilizations used to build and how they influenced modern machines.
Author : E. R. Truitt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0812246977
Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
Author : Michael Woods
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822529965
Examines ancient methods of communication in the Middle East, India, China, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Mesoamerica.
Author : Mark O'Connell
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0385540426
“This gonzo-journalistic exploration of the Silicon Valley techno-utopians’ pursuit of escaping mortality is a breezy romp full of colorful characters.” —New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice) Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our bodies—our capabilities, intelligence, and lifespans—in the hopes that, through technology, we can become something better than ourselves. It has found support among Silicon Valley billionaires and some of the world’s biggest businesses. In To Be a Machine, journalist Mark O'Connell explores the staggering possibilities and moral quandaries that present themselves when you of think of your body as a device. He visits the world's foremost cryonics facility to witness how some have chosen to forestall death. He discovers an underground collective of biohackers, implanting electronics under their skin to enhance their senses. He meets a team of scientists urgently investigating how to protect mankind from artificial superintelligence. Where is our obsession with technology leading us? What does the rise of AI mean not just for our offices and homes, but for our humanity? Could the technologies we create to help us eventually bring us to harm? Addressing these questions, O'Connell presents a profound, provocative, often laugh-out-loud-funny look at an influential movement. In investigating what it means to be a machine, he offers a surprising meditation on what it means to be human.