Things: A Volume of Objects Devised by Man's Genius which are the Measure of His CivilizationGeoffrey Grigson, Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith Hawthorn Books, 1957 - 466 Seiten |
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... Egypt and Mesopotamia and the Indus valley depended , like China , upon irrigation and drainage . Here one may look for the origin of canals . When these valleys were occupied by people driven to- wards the rivers by gradual climatic ...
... Egypt and Mesopotamia and the Indus valley depended , like China , upon irrigation and drainage . Here one may look for the origin of canals . When these valleys were occupied by people driven to- wards the rivers by gradual climatic ...
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... Egypt , or Cni- dus on the south - west coast of Asia Minor . Flin- ders Petrie discovered in Egypt a number of reed- pens belonging to the Roman period . Some speci- mens cut like a modern pen are preserved in the British Museum . In ...
... Egypt , or Cni- dus on the south - west coast of Asia Minor . Flin- ders Petrie discovered in Egypt a number of reed- pens belonging to the Roman period . Some speci- mens cut like a modern pen are preserved in the British Museum . In ...
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... Egypt , though , has produced more evidence for ancient rope than any other area . Cords of reed are known in the Badarian culture of pre- Dynastic Egypt , from which early date ropes of flax and of halfa fibre are known . During the ...
... Egypt , though , has produced more evidence for ancient rope than any other area . Cords of reed are known in the Badarian culture of pre- Dynastic Egypt , from which early date ropes of flax and of halfa fibre are known . During the ...
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GROTTO at Painshill Park Surrey SirènChina | 186 |
Kircher Ars magna lucis | 294 |
Mavungu Pitt Rivers Museum | 399 |
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Ambroise Paré ancient Arabic bath became blade bone Britain Bronze Age built carved century A.D. China Chinese cloth colour cylinder developed dirhem earliest early East Egypt Egyptian eighteenth century engine England English Euripides Europe feet fibres fire flint fountain pen France glass gold grains Greece Greek grotto hand horse ILLUSTRATION inches instrument internal-combustion engine invented Iron Age King known lamp later London machine material medieval ment mesolithic Mesopotamia metal Middle Ages millennium B.C. modern Mohenjo-daro Museum Mycenaean neolithic nineteenth century painted palaeolithic patented plough Pound printed produced razor Roman rope round round barrow rubber safety-pin seventeenth century shape sickle silk silver sixteenth century sledges soap steam stone Sumerian tapestry teeth thermoscope thread tion toothpick totem totem poles Tower Pound tree Troy Troy Pound tube turn tury tyres weight wheel wood wooden ziggurat