Piston Pump: the whole path

  1. 1
    Tools & MakingI

    Stone Tools

    The first cutting edge

    3.3 Mya

  2. 2
  3. 3
    Materials & ChemistryII

    Pottery

    Clay turned to stone by fire

    18,000 years ago

    needs 2

  4. 4
    Materials & ChemistryII

    Charcoal

    Wood cooked slowly under earth

    c. 4,500 BCE

    needs 1, 2

  5. 5
    Materials & ChemistryII

    Leather Tanning

    Raw hide, oak bark and months in pits

    c. 1,500 BCE

    needs 1, 2

  6. 6
    Materials & ChemistryIII

    Bronze

    Copper and tin, harder together

    c. 3,300 BCE

    needs 2, 3, 4

  7. 7
    MechanicsIII

    Piston Pump

    Water raised by valve and piston

    c. 270 BCE

    Goal · needs 5, 6


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