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Ancient Greek technology developed during the 5th century BC, continuing up to and including the Roman period, and beyond. Inventions that are credited to the ancient Greeks include the gear, screw, rotary mills, bronze casting techniques, water clock, water organ, the torsion catapult, the use of steam to operate some experimental machines and ...
Philo of Byzantium [a] (Ancient Greek: Φίλων ὁ Βυζάντιος, Phílōn ho Byzántios, c. 280 BC – c. 220 BC), also known as Philo Mechanicus (Latin for "Philo the Engineer"), was a Greek engineer, physicist and writer on mechanics, who lived during the latter half of the 3rd century BC.
Eupalinos (Ancient Greek: Εὐπαλῖνος) or Eupalinus of Megara was an ancient Greek engineer who built the Tunnel of Eupalinos on Samos Island [1]: 27 [2] in the late 6th century BC [1]: 27 . Though the construction of the tunnel has been attributed to the tyrant Polycrates of Samos [ 1 ] : 27 , it is now considered to be a later ...
This evidence that the Antikythera mechanism was not unique adds support to the idea that there was an ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology that was later, at least in part, transmitted to the Byzantine and Islamic worlds, where mechanical devices which were complex, albeit simpler than the Antikythera mechanism, were built ...
Chiton (costume): A chiton is a form of tunic that fastens at the shoulder, worn by men and women of Ancient Greece and Rome. Chryselephantine sculpture: sculpture made with gold and ivory. Chryselephantine cult statues enjoyed high status in Ancient Greece. Cithara: An ancient Greek musical instrument in the yoke lutes family.
Lancaster, Lynne (2008), "Roman Engineering and Construction", in Oleson, John Peter (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World, Oxford University Press, pp. 256– 284, ISBN 978-0-19-518731-1; Lewis, M. J. T. (2001a), Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-79297-5
Inside the aqueduct. The Eupalinian aqueduct is described by Herodotus (Histories 3.60): . I have dwelt longer upon the history of the Samians than I should otherwise have done, because they are responsible for three of the greatest building and engineering feats in the Greek world: the first is a tunnel nearly a mile long, eight feet wide and eight feet high, driven clean through the base of ...
Engineering portal; Greece portal Classification: People: By occupation: Engineers: By ... Ancient Greek engineers (3 C, 15 P) + Greek women engineers (13 P) C.