The ingenuity of the construction techniques used by Greek builders 2,000 years ago continues to dazzle the world. What did these ancient engineers get right? And how does looking to the past help ...

Ancient aqueducts remain some of the most impressive engineering achievements ever built because they solved enormous logistical problems without modern machinery or technology. Civilizations like the ...

THIS is an English edition of a book published in America, and contains the outcome of six lectures delivered at the Cooper Union in New York, under the auspices of Columbia University. The first part ...