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Engineering in the Ancient World
Review of J. G. Landels' Engineering in the Ancient World.

Roman Glass-Making
The history of glass-making based on an exhibit at the Kelsey Museum. Most of the glass is from Egypt which, because of the desert conditions, preserved the glass intact.

An Ancient Greek Computer
Article by Derek J. de Solla Price from 1959 Scientific American on the discovery of a 2000-year-old clock-like mechanism.

A Brief History of Time
Jesse Weissman's look at the origins of clocks, clepsydras, anaphoric and the astrolabe.

The History of Plumbing
The Romans contributed baths and aqueducts to the history of plumbing.