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Jensen, Martin

 
9780486422329: Engineering and Technology 1650-1750: Illustrations and Texts from Original Sources

Sinopsis

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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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.

Biografía del autor

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.

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9780613921664: Engineering and Technology 1650-1750: Illustrations and Texts from Original Sour (Dover Science Books)

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ISBN 10:  0613921666 ISBN 13:  9780613921664
Editorial: Tandem Library, 2002
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