The Ancient Greek Technology provides a connecting between ancient
civilisation and art, beauty and philosophy, serving to open our eyes and broaden
our horizons by bringing a civilisation with a strong foundation in technology into
todays world, proving that the ancient Greeks not only had a knack for practical
solutions in their everyday lives, but also great deal of imagination., scientist said.
Today, many invention is developing very fast but all of them use technic from the
part. Not so long ago, water mills were invented for used all over the world for the
purpose of agriculture or transport. But one of the most popular invented is Philo of
Byzantium, He invented water mills that very popular is Hydraulic wheel of
Perachora , it is Greece invention by Philo, of Byzantium and the subdivided
wheel of Philon ". Furthermore, Philon's works also contain the oldest known
application of a chain drive in a repeating crossbow . and he also a writer that
why he build automaton that include in his writing.
Philo of Byzantium also known as Philo Mechanicus, was a Greek engineer
and writer on mechanics. Although he was from Byzantium he lived most of his life
in Alexandria, Egypt. Philo of Byzantium is a greek scientist and the word Byzantion
is from an ancient greek city (founded in 667 BC), a precursor of Constantinople,
the capital of Eastern Roman Empire, and Istanbul of modern Turkey. The most
information about Philon's life comes from the only work, Many people think he only
an inventor but he also a writer. He wrote his treatise Mechanics, In this treatise,
Philon describes also journeys he had made to Rhodes and to Alexandria to study
catapults. As far as we know Philon's Mechanics had nine books for example the
first book is Isagoge in this book about Introduction to mathematics, Limenopoeica
is the Third book about the building of harbours, and the last book called Peri
Epistolon, it about secret letters. But, the most important book is Pneumatica, in this
book includes not only the first description of a water mill in history, but also the
earliest known escapement mechanism, as part of a washstand automaton.
Washstand automaton or washstand for today Inside the maid, there are two
airtight containers with wine and water. A counterweighted spoon, supplied by a
water tank, tips over in a basin when full releasing a pumice in the process. Once
the spoon has emptied, it is pulled up again by the counterweight, closing the door
on the pumice by the tightening string. Remarkably, Philon's comment that "its
construction is similar to that of clocks" indicates that such escapements
mechanism were already integrated in ancient water clocks.
Humans have been grinding grain for a long time, but it got a whole lot easier
with the invention of the water mill. The first evidence of one is the Hydraulic Wheel
of Perachora, developed by the ancient Greeks around 300 B.C. It used a horizontal
wheel, with two millstones that ground the grain as it fell from a chute above. Water
mills allowed people to produce staple foods much more efficiently. Hydraulic wheel
of Perachora, The word "hydraulics" originates from the Greek word that mean
Pipe, and Perachora is an inland settlement in Loutraki-Perachora-Agioi Theodoroi,
Corinthia, in the region of Peloponnese in Greece. Hydraulic wheel of Perachora is
used as a water pump, it is the most ancient pumping device in Europe that develop
in ancient Greek, It consisted a large wheel, bearing bronze or clay containers,
which rotated with the help of animals through two wooden cogwheels vertically
connected.
Next machine is subdivided wheel of Philon, it is popular machine for
pumping water of medium differences in height that is used even today. It made up
from a large rotating radial wheel with wooden containers which had and opening at
the upper part for the inflow of abstract water when they were at the lower point in
their course and for the outflow of water when they were trapped at the higher point.
The required energy for the movement of the wheel came from the tread of a
worker.
Philo also make and incredible things because among his many inventions
was a human-like robot in the form of a maid, who held a jug of wine in her right
hand. When the visitor placed a cup in the palm of her left hand, she automatically
poured wine initially and then she poured water into the cup mixing it when desired.
The robot was created through a complex construction consisting of containers,
tubes, air pipes, and winding springs, which interacted through variants in weight,
air pressure, and vacuum. The result is the oldest known robot created by man.
Some of these inventions from Philo of Byzantium still exist in the modern
world. These invention affect how today people live. If you can think something that
can change the world same as Philon of Byzantium. You should do it . It can be a
little things that you things but it can affect same as Philon of Byzantium invention.
The man who says it cant be done is generally interrupted by the person doing it,
said Elbert Hubbard.
