Bitone

Inventor, designer

Biton was a military engineer of Greek origin, who was interested also in mechanical and physics problems. He probably wrote some treatises but just the one on the war machines reached the present times. Military engineer, ballistic and mechanical knowledge, he designed throwing machines with bending-based motor and other war machines.

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3. Jh. v.Chr.		he designed throwing machines with bending-based motor and other war machines.
3. Jh. v.Chr.		he wrote a treatise on Optics that is lost
?		he wrote a treatise with dedication to king Attalus I of Pergamo
† ?		gestorben
* ?		geboren

Sammlungen

Automatisierung ab 1950

Bilder

modern reproduction of Biton's war machine

Permanentlinks

DMG-Lib		https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/handler?biogr=8212004
Europeana		http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020801/dmglib_handler_biogr_8212004.html

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