Engineering and Technology 1650-1750: Illustrations and Texts from Original Sources - Softcover

Jensen, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486422321 ISBN 13: 9780486422329

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2003

Synopsis

Highly readable text features more than 200 engravings that encompass engineering projects dealing with surveying, leveling, materials, hand tools, lifting equipment, transport and erection, piling, bailing, water supply, hydraulic engineering, and more. Specific projects include transporting a 50-ton stone to the Louvre, erecting an obelisk, building timber locks, and dredging canals.

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About the Author

Bestselling Danish novelist Martin Jensen was born in 1946 and worked as a teacher and a headmaster in Sweden and Denmark before becoming a full-time writer in 1996. The author of twenty-one novels, he has been honored by the Danish Crime Academy twice and was awarded the Royal Library s Prize for his medieval novel Soldiers Whore. He and his wife are botany enthusiasts who also enjoy bird-watching and gathering mushrooms.

Synopsis

Jensen drew mostly on the writings of Jacob Leupold (1697-1761) and Bernard Forest de BTlidor (1641-1727) for his Civil Engineering Around 1700 , published in 1969 by Danish Technical Press, Copenhagen. In line drawings and text excerpts, he reveals to modern engineers the roots of their craft as it accelerated toward what we now know as the Indust

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486422321
• ISBN 13: 9780486422329
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 207