Philo of Byzantium (,
Philon ho Byzantios, ca. 280 BC – ca. 220 BC), also known as
Philo Mechanicus, was a
Greek engineer and writer on
mechanics, who lived during the latter half of the 3rd century BC. Although he was from
Byzantium he lived most of his life in
Alexandria, Egypt. He was probably younger than
Ctesibius, though some place him a century earlier.