Sentence examples for ancient engineering from inspiring English sources

We reached the old stone bridge, a marvel of stones, mortar and ancient engineering.

The system of dikes and canals, lionized by China as the world's oldest functioning flood-control system, remains a marvel of ancient engineering.

Ctesibius Of Alexandria, Ctesibius also spelled Ktesibios, (flourished c. 270 bc), Greek physicist and inventor, the first great figure of the ancient engineering tradition of Alexandria, Egypt.

The Pharos of Alexandria is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world which reflects the glory of ancient engineering and construction skills.

Although arches, vaults and domes were essential structural elements in ancient engineering works, their structural analysis presents a challenge to modern designers.

The fortified wall is an immense, ancient engineering project that was built to repel, variously, the Mons, the Khmers and the Burmese; while much of it is gone, some gates have been carefully reconstructed.

One epic feat of ancient military engineering was the pontoon bridge built by the engineers of the Persian king Xerxes across the Hellespont (modern Dardanelles), which, according to Herodotus, was accomplished by a mile-long chain of boats, 676 in all, arranged in two parallel rows.

In a tour of an exhibition at Saadiyat, an Uzbek guide joined Dutch and Australian publicists who stopped to listen to a video of the French Mr. Nouvel describing a museum that he said was inspired by ancient Arab engineering.

Pont du Gard, (French: "Bridge of the Gard"), giant bridge-aqueduct, a notable ancient Roman engineering work constructed about 19 bc to carry water to the city of Nîmes over the Gard River in southern France.

This summer I took 10 MIT undergraduates to Rome, Pompeii, and Turin, Italy, for two weeks to study ancient ruins for engineering insights.

Humanists argued that works of ancient art and engineering would make Italian city-states glorious and strong, books of law and statecraft would make them just and stable, and books of ethics and philosophy would restore the values which had made Cicero and Seneca put city and people before ambition and self-interest.