Ancient Power
Description
The use of steam from boiling water has been used as a source of energy going back to Heron of Alexandria who designed the first steam engine. This film discovers the ingenious machines that the ancients used to harness natural power. Could the Romans have had the first industrial revolution, 2,000 years before we like to think it happened?
Runtime
50 min
Series
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Cultural geography (235)
- Population (248)
- Social evolution (72)
- Civilization, Ancient (344)
- Social ecology (250)
- Technology and civilization (75)
- Assimilation (Sociology) (93)
- Tribes (122)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2002
Database
Films on Demand
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