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Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Ingenium Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny
Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances -- the bow and arrow, the waterwheel, the counterpoise siege engine (including the trebuchet), the pendulum clock anchor escapement, and the centrifugal governor -- and demonstrates how they lite...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801885860
ISBN-10: 0801885868
Publication Date: 5/4/2007
Pages: 200
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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