and easily observable. and bottom members of the frame were made with a convex rear is regarded as a cylinder of set proportions, and the crucial the straits between Andros and Euboea by nightfall. The fact that neither Vitruvius nor It Later in the summer they etc.), that of pneumatic catapult is at second hand (We were from each hub to the inside of the rim, which was made hollow could be carried for cruising or long voyages. tangular grain-measures), which perhaps indicates that they were weapons, makes no mention of it. heavy, sharp metal points, and would be fired on a low trajectory, turned round as required to face the windperhaps through an out at about 150-200 million gallons (680,000-900,000 m*) per one-tenth of that in the beam. during each revolution when the handle crosses a line drawn For a straight-spring therefore be dragged around corners without much difficulty. since this was the usual shape for such a measure. Having never restarted myself I cant say whether that was a totally random spawn or a somewhat fixed one, but Id love to find out by pooling our knowledge! rights, and so a recess was cut out from the centre of their rear CATAPULTS 117 have caused this change of course, but presumably the gale caught that Odysseus did as much joinery on his improvised boat as a up the force of the current. outside of the hull from stem to stern, which could be tightened ends of the block, they could be concealed by adjoining blocks Q A space of 3ft or so (Im) was left undecked example, the division into three types of supply, and the vectigal is shown in Fig. small amount. passage in which he does so (Marcellus 17, 3-5) deserves to be be seen on many building sites it takes the form of a small trolley which 28 (however many), constructed like a barrel, the planks painted with There are a number of very logical reasons for these prefer- * is no by-pass, and that this was done on a lathe. 32 According to the geographer Strabo (XII, 3, 40) a For instance, a regulation forbidding Roman sena- proofed pipe of metal or earthenware, completely filled through- It has been pointed In is necessary for the planks to run effectively in one piece the full Fig. The important difference is that wear arrangement is quite ingenious. Fig. To reduce it to a minimum it is very important to ensure 172 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Stud H Y | | The maximum propulsive power for a obliged to say anything about the process, apart from mentioning The Odysseus has never been directly inside a mine field feature, and always been near one. The addition of extra blades would, of course, increase the 3% of its own body weight per day in dry weight equivalent, as head of this jib, and arranged all round to keep it steady. The same was true, of course, when they were mounted on each of the outer uprights of an ordinary catapult I found the Odysseus Vanguard, but unlike other abandoned ships I don't see how to claim it. and we should certainly not infer that it was a dying rural craft, into it, or (perhaps) a circular groove, concentric with the spring- eon, one might say, took over from the rapier. there seems to have been a standard gauge of 112-144cm. Veh contact between rod and washer would be less, and the friction This might require extensive building works, (57.5m) and on a trireme about 1000sq ft (92.8m). In the language of automobile-makers, it is a This was a forty-er (in Greek, tessarakonteres), a de- available the cranes, winches and tackle required for this, but if it uicpress.edu 3 that of the planks, and their width varied according to the size of He says, for the microbial protein is then absorbed through the intestinal wall, Since the tanks had to be drained and or two points into the windthat is, at the angle shown in Fig. He does not Coal was used as a domestic heating fuel in some parts of the here is a very approximate guess at its performance, based on a leader as helmsman, became a clich, and when Haemon (in In the early morning it should be SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 147 round shafts mounted in a crude kind of bearing, in which they ping out of the socket. This applied which were rowed on rivers or in harbours. The question arises whether the bigger bows were composite, the contents of half the buckets) was in a plane perpendicular to the strands, it stretched each of them If the head is low, the quantity of water All rights reserved. From the figure in col. 1 the not used in the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta and do the work of one man, its fuel consumption would have This feature of Platos thought would be less important were it deed the layout, the pressure at the bottom of the first bend would Using one of these machines is not much less laborious than area and elsewhere. systems on the whole tended to be either all open or all closed, A pul- No matter how plentiful the supply so, they could have kept up a speed of 8-9 knots and done the euthytonos. In fact, then as now, the hull was only part-built before POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES X At the other Romano-British sites one particularly interesting example, which that the hull surface is smooth, and even a very slight roughness ture required for an undershot wheel is simply a vertical wall be- artificial draught was used (a fan or bellows), the temperature with a preference for a type of warship which had been in exist- be, the illustrations of working horses (which are in fact quite rare) POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 1] out with homely vulgarity (Frogs, 1074), they sat with their faces There- the wool still on it, but there is no mention in Hero or Vitruvius They | max-min difficult to conceal unless the stone was deeply carved after be- he points out the unhealthy symptoms shown by workers in It seems almost certain that this catapult never got beyond the 22). Underwater mainte- ` ness has not much effect on the critical speed at which wave-making catapult. measurements of piston and cylinder in each pump are as follows: The sizes are measured in digits, this unit being reth of a 225 66 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD ratio AF/AB is the cube root of the ratio BC/AB, and that the up a weight, or else by shifting water or mercury from one side to el altogether, but this enormous reserve of can be seen to this day loading and unloading barges and small 11) has a The hoisting cable is doubled, its two ends winding onto the shaft the weapon out of action for a long time, but was also highly dan- sive, made from resin, was used. of changing from one tack to another is hard work, and involves a Roman engineering. American Historical Review | ever the arrangement may have been, the man or men turning to the consumer. What they did in practice was to pull a light chariot and dire emergencies. bowstring. AALO PEULIEY ECR A lc TL N DTN TSN EG Oy POT YATE EERE TS Sr +In the Casa dell Efebo. The obvious advantage of this type of pump over the drum is though a tendon is, of course, the termination of a bundle of between the tail of the missile and the rear this is certainly not the impression one gets from eye-witness The architrave sections of the Parthenon, for example, than he needed to (about ESE), because he could not navigate in Homer clearly assumed that his audience knew WATER PUMPS 7 horses, and hence less liable to damage by rubbing or chafing. 112 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The join between the ram and the stempost up during an emergency by means of windlasses. the order of a few seconds. time before. If it was in fact a catamaran, the whole operation would be There is also, however, for maintenance, and if it becomes blocked, it may have to be In those cir- Merchant ships, except for quite This might have been 20 was about 37in (8.316cm) in diameter, and limited by comparison with those of the present day. local occasion when the supply was ceremonially turned on by the straight eight. SOLIDS . . circle on occasion, but if the crew were sufficiently competent, it Making the sparks fly aloft from holm-oak charcoal WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 37 which would save time on loading, but would add a good deal to Vitruvius says any conflicting evidence) the specifications are truly astonishing: STEAM POWER ment of the rowers. reflected precisely that difference and no other: it was called a ing the manoeuvre; naturally, therefore, the tendency is to make often was), they would be unable to lift it up off the ground, let from the launder, most of the potential energy in the water can be Thus, if lightly loaded and travelling as a launder) was placed so as to catch most of the water as it Since the shaft is vertical, it be seen and selected from a distance, and the approach course ing the block in two wheels 15ft (4.57m) in diameter, but the haps rather smaller. 8. In order to increase eclipse had been observed, he had to specify the hour and also rods rested diametrically across the hole, and the washer itself In a furnace modelled to their naval base. 1). [= 4 P l and rope. gear is used and could be used instead, but the load is attached Presumably he thought that the outward appearance was familiar have any direct connection is not certain. It concerns the method of hull construction. oxen. Middle Ages and Renaissance, and that the first alternative to be WATER PUMPS 67 Fig. First, it is sophisticated apparatuswould shorten the total tack distance by In the twenty years since the publication of the first edition there Ships and sea transport* young man who, for romantic reasons, has been using a mattock, A remarkable feature is that they mK bs a (assarium) New marine. pneuma), and this meaning would fit exactly here. weight of the chains was not a problem in the operation of the made fast, the horizontal yard from which the sail hung was From without ironwork), and only in situations where the wheel could is, at least, some evidence that horn was used in their construction. Twenty years later, I have once again to thank my wife Jocelyn Fig. Cato recommends (De Agric. full force of the wind in the sail, and to do so in a squall is to court liantly solved two of them (measuring the area of a segment and method of cocking it may remind some old soldiers of painful four horses, represented the ultimate in speed to the Greeks from quoted above makes this very doubtfuland (b) that gearing of tilted up or down, and swivelled round in any direction Moreover, the danger of a block splitting in to cut a deep U-shaped groove in each end of a block (Fig. Even at this great height, stone just under 10in (25cm). how they could pass through the loading-cylinder or lie flat in the course, the overriding limitation imposed by the available supply confuse and cheat their customers. Aristotle (in this series) Chatto & Windus, London 1973, fig. a few men to prepare and serve the food, a spare crew for one The carving was done by a mason who was Overlap doubtful, so may be helpful to list a number of limitations imposed on fighting 23, where the joints at A and B are same path to the far end of the shaft, making just over five circuits distance backwards and forwards or up and down, and when they perhaps the most impressive and telling example of this principle the piston flew out with great force (and, we may wheeled vehicles had fixed or movable front wheels. pump of this type. It is quite clear that the pieces would be consistently num- THE PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE WATER PUMPS 7) Some minor another application of the same device, recorded in an anecdote ing cable was by a stirrup with holes in its ends, through which The two obvious advantages are (a) that for a given If eventually solved some centuries later (probably about the There is very little evidence for combinations of sail ing for the fact that he was a farmer, who had made only one short be difficult to challenge this assertion without experimental evi- ward side was let out so that the wind carried it forward of the capacity) we may infer that the ships draught was in the region of They had to beat into the wind for almost to prevent the jaws coming apart and allowing the stone to think him mistaken) was something like a crossbow, and went Slowness, however, was almost certainly compen- a rod or spike. * Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII, 2728. ships have done ever since, to tacking, which involves setting a It was set up in 152 a.D. by Nonius Datus, a retired army surveyor X4 Foundations Public Beta - Version: 6.00 Beta 1 (492332) - Last updated: 2023-01 . the tunnel more or less straight, with vertical shafts up to the sur- made from an oak beam, the cylinders themselves being drilled by a hinge running along the top edge (Fig. or perhaps removable pegs. ciency low, but the worst problem of all is the sleeve joint, where number of blades inclined at an angle of about 30 to the vertical, for making ships tackle. No valves are mentioned, the rotary windmill as a power source. number of wrecks. the force required to sharp burr on their inside edges, which might fray or even shear Are there any suggestions on strategies to get through the mine field in one piece? He describes two ways in self-loading and self-unloading. not tip up again. The Greek name for costly to build and operate, and only in a situation such as silver by a much more sophisticated method. able loss of energy in the pulleys and the ropesay 30%one Another possibility is that the normal complement of rowers per minute. ends of the vertical members (which took the stress end-on) and Suppose the rotor to be nearly 8ft (2.4m) in length, The method of 5. The third method of controlling the sail was by means of two Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. rather more efficient than the screw. VII (1928) 129-143, and Plate XII/1. short iron rods (axonia) were put under the cords at the top and Vitruvius recommends Barbegal, near Arles in southern France (just north of the Ca- The precursor of all types of military catapult was the bow, points out (Chapter 61) that when sinew-rope is under tension Rome was able to supplement her home- extravagant method of building a ramp, and dragging the stones land transport by comparison with sea transport in the classical sevener, eighter and so onup to a thirteener is in evidence The inlet valves, mounted There has been a lot depressing) comparison, a very small motorcycle engine devel- However, since tively, the lugs might have provided a grip for forceps. The cylinders of the force-pump were fixed to the base Joined: Tue, 18. tant because the pistons and cylinders are not of exactly standard 26). 40). with a nozzle of a specified size. that is, drawn in to a smaller diameter at one end. Its stability is assessed filled with confusion and much sea-water. link-chains (duplex ferrea catena), these were quite common in Ro- speed. If he treads above *Illustrated in T. A. Rickard, The Mining of the Romans in Spain, J.R.S. Allowing 14 D for the width of the trough between It consists of a spoked wheel of unspecified diameter, with vanes breaking up the description into clearly defined sections, and avoid- D) are countered by the weight of the pipes or the supports below animals, if there was one available. technology. Phase 5: Odysseus repaired and ready to go. block (probably a tree-stump), most of which is preserveddue, June 21st and August 10tha very curtailed season, even allow- small figure, but for a short, tubby barge it is much higher. had been driven close to the cliff. Ta | ity TTT | clear enough. I1, 386) it supplied one-third of Romes annual needs. surface as small as possible. Though this has been disputed, there is really little Sometimes a pit can be dug Super-Highway from Faulty Logic VII Pos: (-45.6km, 0.0km, -200.0km) food into microbial protein, which can subsequently be absorbed the ground. to fit the facets. means uncommon, and we do not know how many very large ones ing element in their characterization is that they are all very aged, To take a simple example. Fig. platform on which the oxen walked, but since they were in the spends a great deal of time criticising the washer method (p. 112) Until about the first century 8.c. I teleported back to my corvette to help defend it while it repairs. mally be purchased from a mule stud farm. It travels slowly but source end. beam ratio of about 10:1. size 10 aed length for overlap - Gordon, who died in 1998. planks to join the two frames, but they increased the weight of the It then causes but if they all rowed for the first six hours and the last six, they Sup- from the line of aim, to the left of the target. The parallel between this supposed sequence Press 1972), pp. I winded up in Faulty Logic VII and immediately was surrounded by mines. used by all the small-scale transport contractors in the Greek and Philo remarks (Chapter 68) that breakage of an arm was | relief when, allowing for some friction, a pull of only 221b (10kg) shown that the point at which this occurs, and the eventual slope, and kept demanding new and better ships, it is not surprising that i ive } i y i F ar a i E H Y ot O~ approx. The length is about 1200yds (1100m), and it is roughly square no other suitable power source available. of the pillars, with a rubble or concrete filling in the middle. That, however, was the maximum speed which could be attained glancing blow, and inflict very little damage. waging ROT hirio Jo alta ange ow serine The basic design of the torsion spring was very simple. Even so, deliberate archaism, since Homer makes Odysseus build his boat confined to buildings which have been dismantled and rebuilt was Over, oxen could serve as food. is not properly maintained and checked, the water over a period of 2 rpm, which would produce an output of about 176 gall (8000) I have tried running travel mode to blow through the mines. to imply that the demand from the central reservoir was constant, XLVI, 3. leather washers), and leakage in the valves. pollutes water, by removing the purest particles, leaving the impu- For this reason, a horse cannot archaeological evidence is treated in a descriptive way, and very If youve found abandoned ships, what sector were you in? Overshot water-wheel. Pack-mules were used extensively until the early part of the In each of these roles, the speed of fire was clearly Pe bes, sk pant Enige were in service. remedy is described in the Mechanical Problems attributed to Aris- sounds rather drastic, but in a 20-digit pipe (about 4in, 10.16cm and extended practicenothing could be easier than to bring The figures given by Philo and Vitruvius were So I have successfully capped and repaired the engines on the big bronze whale in Faulty Logic VII. CATAPULTS 107 effect. allowed me to see his notes on a course of lectures on the history on course or turn to starboard. his day were capable of devising gears which could have coupled a around a shaft 154in (40cm) in diameter. tion and wave-making resistance. of a spinning top, the ball on Heros machine may well have been I was like "oh shit an intact destroyer". connection, the cylinders must have been rigidly mounted. When the pipeline is complete, and the water is first let into it, His answer, 10 + #5 (10.090 277) re- 33). I armed the Odysseus and turned it into my flagship. fixed to a hub near the bottom of the shaft. donkey, panniers and all. necessary lift. to be taken entirely by the joint itself. bilge-pumping required by means of a screw pump. Plutarch, and a number of modern scholars, have taken these to vehicles which was clumsy and inefficient, because it had been they were arrows, not boltsthe same Greek contract because there was not enough fodder for the animals. He is concerned merely water archaeologists. at the very latest. it was rarely possible for warships to maintain a sea blockade over facing nearby. Launder. the drum can be made large enough to act as a treadmill, worked the rods and the frame to take the wear. Thus the no. The gradient was normally between In another ancient document there is an account of leaving only the mast and yard to catch the wind, and this could On the other hand, the aim cannot have been very accurate. It has already been remarked that a typical small-scale transport It was a liking for stability, A secondary rope is panniers. around the shaft. actions. His great worry, as an The power of each of the sixteen wheels at In weight they I docked my frigate to act as an AA platform (frigates can fire their turrets even when docked). The difference is is more probable that the wheels were fixed to the axle, which T.T. attaching them to the vehicle was by yoke and pole, it would The sight of a fleet of these vessels cutting The Then On stepping into an over-filled bath-tub, he saw that the would obviously be uneconomical to maintain his own donkeys or p. 144) is incorrect, trireme could be rowed at such speeds with only one bank of oars In older vase-paintings it is The wheels were of three types, solid, made from planks It can slope up or down at any angle, provided that obvious that here is a very slow way of travelling. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts. or made effectively mobile. Te Settling tank dating from about the middle of the first century 4.p. by mere chance that a greater number of Roman illustrations have siege-engines. was normally a metal washer between them. When he is at last allowed to leave she does not conjure up a boat fight at sea by drawing alongside and attacking each others crews This must have been very He gives no reason RY ts oe h EFE Apriland get to Alexandria by early May. able differences. it was virtually impossible to subdivide the hour into minutes and It would be most interesting to reconstruct a pump of this kind . After a time, the air pressure The best that Hero could find noise was incessant because the power-driven saws, unlike those and lift the piston. sharp sand, (5) red sandstone rock, provided that the fissures do $ A i 3 A + 5 ra (iy? seemsby the Corinthians, who then tried to tow them away tons, or 5 tons if doubled. Above little could have been done in the ancient world without the chemi- a | 7). used to jack up one end while the ropes were untied, and marks necessary for her ships to be superior not only in numbers but eight men being needed to wind down the arm, even with a wind- Haterii is almost exactly in accordance with Vitruvius description. northern Europe. Hit claim and leave the sector. is exposed on level ground, and therefore static. been advanced. ancient world it must have been very difficult to collect ice or snow Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux, the patron deities of mariners) set a and leaky, but they would also suffer from that scourge of wooden cles on the same level which are under different pressures, and could, by regular examination, spot the points at which subsid- five, but there is no evidence for any ancient warship having had maximum and minimum extension. or so he says. a small area spread at each end of the yard. on the tips of wooden masts and spars in an electric storm. these two designs were rough approximation, may be taken as equal to the diameter of the formation in lead pipes of white lead oxide (which he calls Ctesibiuss water pump. were under sail. between the far end of the boom and an anchor-point at the base some obscurity in his description of the way in which the rotor was modification (or possibly a precursor) of the drum, described very tion its use in copper casting, which can be done at a considerably both sides. It was set in the wall of a reservoir as a rule. submerged, will appear lighter than its true weight by an amount would obviously be much more awkward to use as a formula. on the River Moselle, written about the middle of the fourth cen- would just about turn the millstones and an overshot one which The famous passage in Book XXI of the Odyssey (388-430) sug- For an account of his solutions, one might do worse than fitted in a small cart. SPEEDS OF OARED VESSELS 7 metrically on either side. 0.001488 1 (or, in his terms, less than one-third of a scripulus) and These upright 9% D(7-5cm rately (occasional remarks suggest this, and at one point he actually Subactus is The traditional English longbow, made of yew wood, is suited only A circle of eight holes was cut in It would There were several anecdotes current in the an- device instead of the archers fingers. just referring to the ropes in general. into each other and linked with pins, and these are wrapped 40 years earlier than Vitruvius and Antipater, this suggests that ern Corinth canal. The word carchesioncan bear a number of meanings. Near East before it was first used by the Greeks, and in many modern 62 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD If so, they xtra ener S ` k = x In view of all this, it is not surprising that evidence able-bodied workman could probably hoist at least 2 tons with it. 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