Fort Qaitbey in Alexandria Egypt
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Fort Qaitbey in Alexandria is one of the city’s major monuments, an icon of the city itself, and a great place to bring the kids for a wonderful adventure.
August 11th, 2006 at 9:53 pm
Coincidentally,I proceeded to this fort from the theaters at Alexandria,thinking of machinery.I noticed the crennalations of the towers and wall top.In the imagination,if a tower became a shaft with a gear at it’s end,it would roll in match with the wall top as a rack for a pinion.This coincides with my search for very old missing machinery.Such items,I contend,disappeared in some cases before a structure such as this fort,in terms of design elements was concieved.I do expect others to argue that the fort resembance to gears in any way is only a step in human evolution toward machine technology.A reasonable proposition.