I came by accident across this book and its title, unavoidably, caught my attention. Written by Eirini Mpourdakou, the book goes back into ancient times providing an overview of ancient automation technology.  Via archaeological artifacts as well as scriptures detailing the design of such technology, the reader discovers that starting more than 2000 years ago with Greek civilization and pursued by Byzantin and Arab later on, the foundations of modern automation technology were being set. Predominantly based on simple hydraulic rules, inventions of incredible ingenuity could be designed from au ..read more