Early Ages of Middle East

and Africa,

 The Earliest Uses of Hydraulic Engineering is
irrigating crops
 Early 2nd Millenium BC

 One of the earliest hydraulic machine:
Water Clock
Early 1st Millennium BC

Other Early Systems:
 Qanat Water System in Persia
 800 BC

Other Early Systems:
 Turpan Water System in China
 5,400 years Ago

Other Early Systems:
 Irrigation Canals in Peru
 Ancient China

 Hydraulics engineering was highly developed.
They built Massive Canals, Levees, Dams, and
Locks
Such as Grand Canal in China
 Ancient China
 Levees in China

 Ancient China
 Locks in China

 Ancient China

 Sunshu Ao – Considered 1 Chinese Hydraulic
st

Engineer
 Around 1000BC

 Banaue Rice Terraces- way for assisting in growing
crops
Ifugaos built dam and irrigation fed by ancient
irrigation system.
 Around 1000BC

 Dams in Benguet utilize by the farmers in Rice
Terraces; Ambuklao Dam and Binga Dam

Ambuklao Binga Dam

Dam
 6 th Century BC

 Eupalinos, an ancient greek engineer who built the
Tunnel of Eupalinos from Samos Island, Greece.
 Roman Empire

 Construction of Aqueducts
 Aqueducts- supply water and remove sewage from
cities

Roman Aqueducts
 Roman Empire
 Cisterns


Roman Cisterns
 15 th Century
(Somali Ajuran Empire)

 Limestone Wells used by Somalians
 16 th Century
(Islamic Golden Age)

-Irrigation improvements

-Hydropowered water supply system

-Water Purification System

 Modern Times

-Still relevant from the ancient systems

-Have Dams, Canals, Wells, etc.

-Improve much than Ancient Times in terms

of system, size, and capacity