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English: Reconstruction of a washstand with escapement mechanism, the earliest known, as described by the Greek engineer Philo of Byzantium (3rd century BC) |
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| Source | Carra de Vaux, B. (1903): "Le livre des appareils pneumatiques et des machines hydrauliques de Philon de Byzance d'après les versions arabes d'Oxford et de Constantinople", Academie des inscriptions et des belles lettres: Notices et extraits des mss. de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 38, 27–235 (163), depicted in: Lewis, Michael (2000), "Theoretical Hydraulics, Automata, and Water Clocks", in Wikander, Örjan, Handbook of Ancient Water Technology, Technology and Change in History, 2, Leiden, pp. 343–369 (356, fig. 5), ISBN 90-04-11123-9 |
| Author | Bernard Carra de Vaux (1867-1953) |
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