Denny, Mark, 1953-

Ingenium five machines that changed the world / [electronic resource] : Five machines that changed the world Mark Denny. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007. - xvi, 176 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bow and arrow -- Waterwheels and windmills -- Counterpoise siege engines -- Pendulum clock anchor escapement -- Centrifugal governor -- Inventiveness.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Inventions--History.
Machinery--History.
Force and energy--Experiments.


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