Engineers Found Evidence of Hydraulics in an Ancient Pyramid, Solving a 4,500-Year-Old Mystery (1 Viewer)

[slavablueberryjam]

Engineers Found Evidence of Hydraulics in an Ancient Pyramid, Solving a 4,500-Year-Old Mystery

Researchers found evidence that hydraulic systems might have been used to build Egypt's Step Pyramid of Djoser 4,500 years ago, revealing advanced technology.

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Is it possible the ancient Egyptians invented the car 4000 years before the Prussians?

 

[Helix]

 

[Grand Mal]

Engineers Found Evidence of Hydraulics in an Ancient Pyramid, Solving a 4,500-Year-Old Mystery

Researchers found evidence that hydraulic systems might have been used to build Egypt's Step Pyramid of Djoser 4,500 years ago, revealing advanced technology.

www.yahoo.com

Is it possible the ancient Egyptians invented the car 4000 years before the Prussians?

I couldn't find any reference to a pump in the article. Hydraulics, in my experience, always involves a pretty effective pumping system.

 

[Loulit01]

Engineers Found Evidence of Hydraulics in an Ancient Pyramid, Solving a 4,500-Year-Old Mystery

Researchers found evidence that hydraulic systems might have been used to build Egypt's Step Pyramid of Djoser 4,500 years ago, revealing advanced technology.

www.yahoo.com

Is it possible the ancient Egyptians invented the car 4000 years before the Prussians?

Interesting. I'd like to see schematics.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Engineers Found Evidence of Hydraulics in an Ancient Pyramid, Solving a 4,500-Year-Old Mystery

Researchers found evidence that hydraulic systems might have been used to build Egypt's Step Pyramid of Djoser 4,500 years ago, revealing advanced technology.

www.yahoo.com

Is it possible the ancient Egyptians invented the car 4000 years before the Prussians?

Like we didn't know this?
The ancient Egyptian irrigation system is a prime example of hydraulics. It demonstrates the use of water management and engineering to control and distribute water for agriculture, which is a core principle of hydraulics.

 

[MamboDervish]

I couldn't find any reference to a pump in the article. Hydraulics, in my experience, always involves a pretty effective pumping system.

Even a gravity fed fountain qualifies as "hydraulics", albeit in its simplest application.

 

[Grand Mal]

Even a gravity fed fountain qualifies as "hydraulics", albeit in its simplest application.

Yeah, I read that one reason Rome has so many fountains is that the Romans (the wealthy ones) had a rudimentary plumbing system but needed the fountains to reduce the water pressure supplied by the aquaducts.
But to lift massive stones, barring floating them into place, you'd need pretty high pressure. You might be able to make horses turn a pump impeller strong enough to make that kind of pressure, then you have to have pipes and fittings to deliver it.
It's an interesting engineering problem. I hope it's solved and found that those people way back then pulled it off.

 

[Revelation]

Yeah, I read that one reason Rome has so many fountains is that the Romans (the wealthy ones) had a rudimentary plumbing system but needed the fountains to reduce the water pressure supplied by the aquaducts.

But to lift massive stones, barring floating them into place, you'd need pretty high pressure. You might be able to make horses turn a pump impeller strong enough to make that kind of pressure, then you have to have pipes and fittings to deliver it.

they didn't use water pressure to lift the stones.

the stones prolly levitated into place; we don't have that kind of power even today to carry those types of stones; groan

start thinking outside the box or go home.

It's an interesting engineering problem. I hope it's solved and found that those people way back then pulled it off.

i gave you a hint on how it was done, think about it and come back with a better solution.

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[Grand Mal]

they didn't use water pressure to lift the stones.

Probably not, but the word 'hydraulics' implies that they did.

the stones prolly levitated into place; we don't have that kind of power even today to carry those types of stones; groan

A Dutch company, Mammoet (Dutch for Mammoth), hoisted a Russian submarine off the bottom with hydraulic jacks. Strand jacks, they're called, mounted on barges and they pull wire-rope inches by inexorable inches at a time.

start thinking outside the box or go home.

Ohfergawdsake.

i gave you a hint on how it was done, think about it and come back with a better solution.

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Yeah, levitation. They stood encircled around the stone holding hands, eyes closed, and changed, "Ommm! Ommm!" until the stones floated into place.