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- Athenaeus. Ctesibius' most commonly known invention today is a pipe organ (hydraulis), a predecessor of the modern church organ. Ctesibius was the son...
- inventor Ctesibius. It lies between the larger crater Abul Wáfa to the west and the slightly smaller Heron to the east. The outer wall of Ctesibius is wide...
- Greece and in ancient Rome, as described by technical writers such as Ctesibius (died 222 BC) and Vitruvius (died after 15 BC). A water clock uses the...
- Ctesibius is a genus of soft-bodied plant beetles in the family Artematopodidae. There is at least one described species in Ctesibius, C. eumolpoides...
- pneumatics is murky, the field's founder is traditionally traced back to Ctesibius of Alexandria "who worked in the early 3rd century BCE and invented a...
- Belopoeica, which draws on an earlier account of the famous Gr**** engineer Ctesibius (fl. 285–222 BC). Heron identifies the gastraphetes as the forerunner...
- while under the rule of the first Roman Emperor Augustus. Prior to that, Ctesibius, a Gr**** citizen of Alexandria, developed the first fire pump in the third...
- hydraulis. The hydraulis is the name of a Gr**** instrument created by Ctesibius of Alexandria. The hydraulis has a reservoir of air which is inserted...
- lectures at dawn (Athenaeus 4.174c). The ****enistic engineer and inventor Ctesibius (fl. 285–222 BCE) ****ed his clepsydras with dial and pointer for indicating...
- organ is a relatively old musical instrument, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria (285–222 BC), who invented the water organ. It was pla****...