Engineering↗
The Greek Contribution: Abstract Geometry, Mechanics and the First Machines
Six milestones including the single most consequential idea in the whole set: that there are general laws and that they can be known.
Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Hydraulic Engineering. 3 pages.
Six milestones including the single most consequential idea in the whole set: that there are general laws and that they can be known.
Engineering begins as a response to water. Four milestones in levees, canals, urban drainage and bringing supply inside the walls.
Three milestones showing what happens when concrete construction moves from large to unprecedented, and the governing parameter turns out to be hydrology, creep or heat rather t…