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Ancient space rocks could hold the blueprint for asteroid mining

The most promising clues are not in speculative business plans but in ancient space rocks themselves, whose chemistry and ...
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4,000 year wind technology: The real ancient Iranian engineering behind Dune’s windtraps

Frank Herbert’s Dune popularized windtraps as devices that harvest moisture from desert air, but real ancient Iran developed ...
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In this engineering and humanities ‘mashup’ course, students learn new ways of thinking from builders of the ancient world. Even Galileo weighs in.

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 ...
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Review: New Perspectives on Ancient Technology and Engineering in Greece and Rome: John Peter Oleson, "The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World"

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Technology and Culture is the quarterly interdisciplinary journal of the Society for the History of Technology. The international ...