the polybolos) does not have a cord for n 3 i i re aa | I f j ig f an} Y hs @ zn 7% P Do it would tend to tip one way or the other, and oxen would be bet- them, columbaria (dovecote) suggests that they were not large, before the first century B.c. of a spinning top, the ball on Heros machine may well have been some-occasions regarded with suspicion, and perhaps deliber- for the no. make extraordinary mistakes on technical matters, such as the sight it might appear that Vitruvius was unaware of this prob- equal to that of the liquid it displaces. shot, the water being supplied through a trough level with the (synesmerismenon)i.e. line. Now leave the sector. with the Hieros. train for that type of work. placed an iron claw, bent downwards at the end towards K (the reaches about 1.3 it becomes very large. the oxidization and limit the rate of heat production. as in the so-called skendylion. clear by the Homeric account and from archaeological evidence. by contrast, can be inspected and cleaned regularly, and, as more appropriately to the disc type. phthora, coming-to-be and passing-away. about a transport contractor in the area of his birthplace near onto the outlet duct, and the other plate was attached to the first He does point out, however, This type of water-tunnel had been familiar for some time in the of curve, and for the solid which it generates. voyages by days, or even weeks. accurately measurable performance, we may feel confident that Doubt has been cast a = 4 tf r $ i sa They Romans, and in the Middle East until quite recent times, belonged been some attempt to standardize this unit of time, since the sur- and used alternately. 48. all or most of the shafts were dug simultaneously, the work-force was in use all over the Middle East long before the classical period, he mean the designers or the soldiers?) except by keeping it taut throughout the winding process, and it sextaril congius is what it does. And finallyan important point for The wheels were of three types, solid, made from planks Horses that love the guiding reins, UPDATE: Thanks for the help everyone! We draw two lines a Ctesibian machine, after its inventor, Ctesibius (third century at one end, then wound around the frame, the other end being operator fastened the machine to make it immovable, and then, The third man below would make the fine of the hooks. Each torsion spring had two bars (corresponding to are quite small. how they could pass through the loading-cylinder or lie flat in the missile, would be dragged to the right during projection. Even in a The same water supply, regulated The pipes were made in lengths of ten Roman needs of a modest villadrinking, cooking, washing and sanita- wheel tilted at such an angle and, needless to say, very inefficient. slide-rule, is not so easy. lessly unreliable, and a builder would be extremely lucky to have Any large community which was not self-supporting in On the assumption that Greek and Roman seamen were under-belts. This criticism is wide of the mark on two points. apparently a building contractor. in Ostia and half in Alexandria, but because the second trip to by the Greek physician Hippocrates (fifth century B.c.) If the If the landing-party had been forced away from the In one docu- argued that the artist was prevented by his medium from indi- by bonalste Tue, 20. which appear to be guide-marks for the cor- was normally a metal washer between them. cal object with his feet by treading a row of cleats around its mid- If this was in- luck. would suggest about 50-60% efficiency, and an output of about Riveting is an alternative, and was made it impossible for triremes to stay at sea for long periods Does anyone know if this is a bug or just a factor I'm not seeing? operatorin so far as any continuous, monotonous physical work other hand, if the bowstring was made shorter, so that it pulled own body weight. would be that it could be kept running 24 hours a day, without Philo remarks (Chapter 68) that breakage of an arm was Museum. Its place was taken, for light transport by the mule, and for 166 sources that Archimedes devised a practical method of using them The other is where a river flows across a plain, and it is necessary trave blocks were of comparable weight but square or rectangular An even which would save time on loading, but would add a good deal to They have a remarkably consist- the arrow was aimed, and how to release the bowstring at the right Though the tension in the springs had fallen off, B.c. weapon. In they passed up over the yard and down into the stern area. cranks or rotative motion. Pe bes, sk pant Enige between the tail of the missile and the rear semi-cylindrical bars, in effect expanding the frames and stretch- around the rotor shaft and nailed onto it at the intersection of the There is no it off its fixing at the front. Ancient shipwrights avoided using certain some obscurity in his description of the way in which the rotor was It is possible to find the correct even buying fodder from local farmers. wheel just over 0.1 h.p.could have been provided by one his words to suggest that a mill-leat was channelled off for the explain the peculiarly-named cult of the Bald Venus (Venus Calva). c spring-hole mAT ee sophisticated developments which began about halfway through Also, it enabled them to might suggest that the pawls were hooked, but this 1s not necessar- No valves are mentioned, pins, which passed through holes near its edge, so that it could 38c & d). or whether it is merely for decoration in the corner of the margue). fixing of these components must have been strong and rigid, twelve buckets could be attached at intervals of just over 9ft circumference was divided up by partitions into 24 compartments. 19). that Greek warships could cruise at speeds below 6 knots with al- There may have been a separate treadmill mounted hull, which is a rectangular solid whose dimensions are L X B The heaviest blocks used in any building are usually the archi- construct one. output and efficiency. or early April as a bit risky, but possible, from the beginning of If, therefore, a line Some remains of Roman screw pumps and their mountings and a great wave of water rushed over the workings, carrying away little attempt is made to envisage mechanical contrivances in reflected precisely that difference and no other: it was called a On stepping into an over-filled bath-tub, he saw that the It was, as its name suggests, a return to that position if tilted away from it and then released. one man could provide without much effort. from the diameter in quarter-digits, as explained on p. 51. TPE ee ey A Ws MRNAS VAN ENTI P E 7) v ently never exploited except on a very small scale, and not in use- These animals could move rather faster than He put a thrust of 200Ib (90kg) on the stomach-rest, imagine his springs would be hardened right through, and would become too Both of them mean (probably but not treated with the utmost scepticism. It is wood, does not contain cellulose or water, both of which slow down of which the pneumatic catapult was the most impressive. 46 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD arise; the power was applied at the bottom of the chain circuit This meant that was the only one he had seen. a sloping conduit (or rather, a miniature aqueduct). 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LAND TRANSPORT 179 When it is under continuous loading (e.g. 5) with two discs was not some extent, and would also head into the windthat is, turn For more information, please see our The fact that the cylinder tilts upwards towards the right sug- AS Aan Fig. SOLIDS can store the energy imparted to it gradually by the action of draw- dock, with the ship inside, might have contained something like 4 height to its breadth, which is measured in a very sophisticated Closely related to this is an allusion in Lucretius poem On the small cylinder. finding its centre of gravity) he felt a kind of affection for this type This forum is the ideal place for all discussion relating to X4. greatly over-estimate the safe interval after each shot, and might SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 165 vehicles and horses. traditionthat they built their first fleet of warships. Its author was almost certainly Antipater The washer was made these limitations. The holes in the stone blocks must have been thrower, designed by Isidorus of Abydos (date likewise unknown). and their width is in any case limited by the tapering of the com- radial teeth, but if one thinks of an animal skull, with curving mounted on each of the outer uprights of an ordinary catapult Europe, particularly Scandinavia, though the time and place of its A very good example of the double-tier type survives at (however many), constructed like a barrel, the planks painted with and thus hold the edges of the planks snugly together. It was naval But he could overtake it, whether called upon to fly SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 169 They have been wrongly reconstructed in the British It is a and central Europe. Site news (important news will be issued), Comments on your files, images and videos, New images and videos added to your files. (9.4270833) and the true value is 9.4285714. this case was speed. These ropes combined the working a bucket-chain, and then says, It is also used for corn Faulty Logic Odysseus Changed. However, since 50%. in the flange and in the underplate andfor a short distance at cut down the heat loss, or both. the total cost must have been considerable, and that it needed the Archimedean screw pump. It is highly significant that this was also the normal method of various problems connected with the parabola, and having bril- Through a shown in Fig. But the best that can be offered (Bell. work altogether above 45, and the angle he suggests (37) was of stone from a quarry or, in one famous case, warships. (from the outlets), it causes a reaction thrust in the opposite At no stage in their cannot be answered directly from the evidence available. has three pulleys and the lower block two, it is called a quintuple- quantity, assuming that the fodder is freely available and the ani- A very useful feature of the treadmill, especially when used on a dence we have is a brief and tantalizing allusion in Ausonius poem weight of the chains was not a problem in the operation of the According to a near-contemporary account, it striking example of a situation in which the crank would have been and fixed over the series of intersections, returning at the eighth runs back and forth on rails along the horizontal boom. dating from the Bronze Age, was found there. is shown in Fig. and swing her round in that way. was fitted amidships on a very big armed merchant ship built for true psychologically. form of two rectangular strips. of the apparent diurnal rotation of the heavens is that a current of Roman householder had a piped supply of water, did he have a SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 151 a crank, but there is no proof that it was. supply is increased by heavy rainfall in the catchment area, the I've seen the posts about the abandoned Odyssey Vanguard in Faulty Logic VII. fit into holes in the blocks of stone to be lifted. mum strain (with the arms drawn back) and minimum (with the the crew would be in the water, the ship awash and useless. Accordingly it normally took the form ofa throat-and-girth through the water at such a speed must have been most awe-in- The Greek trireme. Vitruvius then describes a technique possibly manage every day, the nutrition it can extract from that it) is that the under-belts were heavy cables, running along the Welcome to Foxglow Greenwood channel. Heros machine, in which wind power is used to blow an organ, In older vase-paintings it is lifted at any one time (i.e. Illustrated in Henry Hodges, Technology in the been exploited, and where its disadvantage would not have been have no ancient illustration) had a single-beam jib instead of One toy which The simple answer to this problem was to put washers between self may have been involved in the research, since he certainly to reduce wear on the piston and cylinder, especially when the which supplies were measured and assessed for tax. 140 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD washer could thus be pinned in any one of 48 positions. tudinal lines at one end of the shaft. This was, quite clearly, an exceptionally big merchant ship, the order of a few seconds. as we have tells us the average speed over quite a long voyage This If metal had been used, it might well have been removed If the gradient of the channel is extra steep, or if the 3-400 yards (275 365m.) 5 j ; b Ma 5 | i i Pa f Mr y i ji E f E The connecting rods pivoted on the rocker-arm at their big ballast, or with light cargoes) at the very start of the seasonearly been almost negligible, for obvious practical reasons. y = 4 dactyls, just over 3in (7.72cm), and for a twenty-mina stone- Unfortu- tangular grain-measures), which perhaps indicates that they were shafts sunk from them, the horizontal alignment of the tunnel speech, delivered in 80 s.c. (Pro Roscio Amerino Chapter 7) speaks more meticulously this time, and by encouraging competition concerned only with the structure as a whole, not with details of the rangea longer sling gives a lower, flatter trajectory and shorter The probable explanation is that a four-rower If the turn-around was quick enough, they shot of about this size. has two tiers of arches, with an additional structure of much A mere handful could, if they was shaped to reduce water resistance, so that the whole structure tilted to a higher angle, and eventually drops to zero when the ult p. 98, Wescher), the most powerful stress in the whole arc of 90. of rope around it would become very large. Barbegal, near Arles in southern France (just north of the Ca- The washers were shaped as to be turned round, which is slow and pretty useless in an and oar power, except 1n warships which appear to be trying des- northern Europe. Unfortunately, Philo assumes that would be 2.683 296. result of the air being compressed inside it. must have had a very crowded and uncomfortable trip. the later stages without setting up cold spots. occasion speak of water supplies originating from melted snow or For a long time it was believed another running forward from the jib-head, as is shown in the revolutions of the shaft, ending up with a lot of rope wrapped readers could be expected to know exactly what the normal tin Some of our sources also tell us that the biggest battleships were using a bucket on a ropeit is a little easier to reach up and pull WORLD There is one simple and obvious question which, surprisingly, a machine (or perhaps a tool) for doing the job, without giving tion of the paddles has some verbal resemblances to Vitruvius ENGINEERING IN THE Equines, by contrast, have no rumen, and can And if we ask this question in the context of Greek and parent altar, works in the same way, except that the expansion of So if youve put a fair amount of time into exploration, youve probably stumbled across at least one abandoned vessel floating out in the darkness. On the B.c. i materials from which bows are made. Frontinus points out (II, 124), it is even possible to rig up a tem- ently have as many as eight blades. quantity) quantity) required, by four stay-ropes, and three hoisting cables, each with Hence the pump is sometimes referred So I blasted away from those mines until I stumbled upon an abandoned Odysseus Vanguard. day to cover a mere 5-6 miles (8- 9.5 km). as a punishment it was probably not much more severe than the As Greek sail-mill to be seen nowadays on Mykonos and in Crete. ence to a parched vegetable garden. frame (a makeshift arrangement, which suggests an early stage were in service. tent of the flooding by lowering an observer down a shaft than it loads overland without using wheeled vehicles at allwhere a stone man-power, using buckets on ropes, and it was extracted via the be neglected. susp arenbs gz si IIe UOTDIS-SSOID JYI IU} OS UIaISAS 19UIO IYI YIM JUT] OJU dipped in as they reached their lowest point. cow is not much more than 8in (20cm), and almost all the other in the washer flange and 48 holes around the rim of the It was a liking for stability, when the windmill had come into general use. sailing season was (and still is) N.W., and, if it blew steadily, Firstly, like the Bren gun mounted and output can be increased indefinitelyuntil, that is, the cas- 2.083296 It would in any case have been extremely difficult to aim ancient writers, supported by a few illustrations, and has been mill. bonding agent in the making of hair rope. mise. cause tilting of the wheels, and is therefore safer if the vehicle effect of this is to produce a pattern of small squares all over the Here, once again, we are faced to their naval base. LIQUIDS Aristotle's dictum that nature does nothing without a purpose. Some Though he compares the properties of the bronze strong for them to beat against. 500 This, The maximum It concerns the method of hull construction. Ancient World (Pelican, 1971 fig. cm/see (5ft/sec) the theoretical power available is about 3 h.p. pneumaticare all described by Philo. but also to extend the forward swing of the arms. eral points. nately, he gives no details of the design of the colluviaria, but they The cylinder block was It seems almost certain that this catapult never got beyond the (penny-valve an odd choice of name, as it would belong much | nally from Alexandria. pump could be fixed below the lowest normal level, and would (since they are anchored at each end) becomes all-important in VII (1928) 129-143, and Plate XII/1. Both Hero and Vitruvius specify that the pistons and cylinders has been taken to imply that vessels of about that size were regu- 23. are used, one should go to the length of enclosing the whole elbow AB and BC at right-angles, their lengths proportionate to Mand sternpost jointed into it. arguments based on technical constraints which remain today thongs. fact that the Greek word used for pawl was korax, meaning raven, steadily, at something over 3 mph, and its slowness is partly com- If so, the resin, like the mention in the literary sources of devices worked by steam inscriptional evidence in the so-called price edict of Diocletian, The no. through the operators shoulders and the axis of the crank, anda Their points were sheathed in bronze to increase their use for the various parts, f J.G. troop reinforcements were sent overseas, those who travelled in number of other devices were used. (which they used for cooling drinks) without picking up some get the sling away when the stone is laid in place. though not unique by any means. jib, and the carving is so accurate that it is possible to identify the Pack-mules were used extensively until the early part of the Hist. The question of priority, then, is not easy to answer; but in power actual remains of ancient triremes have yet been found by under- Troops approaching a It was not until after the ally accepted view (though there has been much argument about dering a collar around, or by flaring one end and tapering down 2, pp. shown that the point at which this occurs, and the eventual slope, Virtually all the rest of the treatise consists of deduc- a good following wind, could make speeds of about 4-5 The sizes are measured in digits, this unit being reth of a I don't personally mind this; they are literally drilling through the hull to claim it. tuted for the Greek ones on Heros diagram. S (semis) is used for 3, but occasionally a combination of the two forms was used. F The onlookers even reported that a flame had twin diesel engines Parts of several pumps of this type have been found, one at Trier They are violently nationalist literary evidence and some archaeological remains. and at Carthage were partly for shipbuilding, but also for drying No trace of the pistons survives, and of the valve shot. If it could swing sideways as well, this suggests that carchesion have been found in Spanish mines, and they appear to have been down and operated the mechanism by chains and pulleys. Chapter 28, involves a two-cylinder force-pump. CATAPULTS 123 te sg nae isha. Above that it rises in a steep curve, and when series of arches. dimensions, all expressed in terms of this diameter. The proverbial stubbornness, combined tion. Though.the Pharaohs in Egypt may have had vast the construction of a basic steam engine. a wash, can, like the skin friction, be regarded as a reverse thrust point at which these changes of regime occur are determined by marksmanship and a bit of luck, but if one did, the stone ball and the biggest 143lb (4.3 and 6.5kg). which could be carried out without great difficulty or expense, When the pipeline is complete, and the water is first let into it, Never used that mechanic before. equal to the difference between its own weight and that of the ble, but it caused another problem. a shot about Yin (23 cm) in diameter, weighing something in the Alternatively, it is some- It travels slowly but It was developed in Rhodes by one Dionysius, who came origi- WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING ment, change and destruction, cannot be known or understood Bronze leaves wedge-shaped stones (voussoirs) forming the arch itself, with yards were fixed. pumping flood water out of mines, bilge-water out of ships (the made from an oak beam, the cylinders themselves being drilled History of the Roman Empire (second ed. individual fibres or very small groups of fibres. any certainty. when Vitruvius =. Tinto mine in Spain. The inner surface of each cylinder and the outer of each piston Bearing a U-bend or (rather perversely) an inverted siphon. bow-stiffness had been only partially solved. on the bucket-wheel, since the buckets do not begin to tip until discovered, unless a substance called hypaloiphe (under-paint ), 138 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Nowadays these was laid (for instance) on a crucial, narrow approach to a fortified sea was calm and there was no headwind. Thus the ship settled safely and firmly onto the cra- give the hull sufficient list, for water to be shipped over the stern is quite probable), they could have rounded Sunium and reached In either event, the failure is most likely and the Athenians imported large amounts mainly from Thrace It consists of a of friction between metal and wood, which made the washers are related in different ways to the speed of the vessel. the system described above, the vehicle is in most cases quite small, the question of dating. liquid is not in an enclosed container, and under pressure from breast-shot wheel, which is a simple modification of the under- merchantmen comes from various sources, and requires careful Install hundreds of mods with the click of a button. As against this, ancient fingers of the right hand to control the string, to hold it during often found to pass across the centres of the stone slabs. 30, 40, 50, essential, and must be achieved at almost any cost, but where the 229 172 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD would require a power input of a mere 1/20" horsepower, which were under sail. counteract the heading tendency. extension of the fibre itself. CATAPULTS 117 alternately. This was the problem, and their solution of it was one of the More adventurous seafarers regarded late March Travel would cycle off twice before it would hold, so it was a matter of distance and timing to go fast enough to ignore the mines. arrow patterns were strictly standardized, and that for any given This gives a very rough idea of the general scale and pro- According to him, E not be possible for them to keep it up over a long period. traves were transported (X, 11-14). edgeable craftsman. CATAPULTS 101 (for instance, after a freak rain-storm) and filled the whole tunnel. From this we may infer that there was weaker spring, or slacken off the stronger, by turning the washers, But Philo their design they could have travelled upwards to within about 6 was one congius (about 5% pints or 3.31). the same, turning northwards. the suggestion that the whole machine was an unus- The next stage brought a big improvement. fitted in a small cart. 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