Sobre el timpano y la bomba de Ctesibio
Full details
| English title | About the tympanum and the Ctesibius pump |
| Authors & editors | |
| Publisher | Guimaraes |
| Year of publication | 1955 |
| Languages | Spanish (main text) |
| Medium | Offprint/Journal Supplement |
| Edition | 1 |
| Topics | |
| Scope & content | Wikipedia: Ctesibius or Ktesibios or Tesibius was a Greek inventor and mathematician in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt. He wrote the first treatises on the science of compressed air and its uses in pumps. This, in combination with his work on the elasticity of air On pneumatics, earned him the title of "father of pneumatics." |
| Keywords | pumps, irrigation, Middle East, Asia |
Copies held
Accession no. 230596
- Shelf location: I500
- Notes: extracted from Voume LXV of Revista de Guimaeres