Engineering the Pre-Industrial Age

The story of engineering in the pre-industrial age, when men built everything by hand, with limited tools and techniques. Author of Engineering the Pyramids The medieval age was one of huge engineering projects, all built by hand with limited machinery, and including the great cathedrals of Europe, as well as bridges, walled cities and other wonders. Dick Parry follows up his books on Egyptian and Roman engineering with one on the early modern age, a time of thinkers and inventors, as well as one of hugeprojects as diverse as London Bridge and the church of St Sophia in Constantinople, with its huge dome. Other technological developments included siege machinery, weapons, metallurgical techniques and printing.--