Ancient Computing Technology: From Abacuses to Water Clocks

by Mary B. Woods and Michael Woods

Book Overview

Ancient cultures measured time accurately with water clocks. An engineer in the first century B.C. designed an odometer to calculate distance traveled. People computed the first values of pi about... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761365281
• ISBN13: 9780761365280
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 12 to 15 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 10