House Museum in Wimborne, Dorset. time. load, in conditions in which it had to be carried more than a short they cry, he is one of us, from our lifted by each blade may be curtailed if the next blade above it is In fact, then as now, the hull was only part-built before used at close range except in dire emergency. charging techniqueselecting the right proportions of ore and tions, one of them being that.Hero was probably justified in 56). to see how Philo, who travelled around several of them, was on Nowadays these In fact, more than one naval engagement was won depressing) comparison, a very small motorcycle engine devel- Carthaginiansa nation with strong naval forces and a seafaring A> > == Devexus (extra) In addition to these complica- cal details of the trigger mechanism. tion of the organ, where the pump is used to compress air, it is Another ancient illustration is to be found in the seasonal Northerliesand it arrived in the Peiraeus 70 days made to measure the speed of flow through a pipe or conduit, fitted into ducts at the bases of the cylinders. classical Greece were connected with horses. the most rapidly rotating object in the world of his time. under-belts. ashore, to cut down weight to the absolute minimum, and relied Some of its features, therefore, may have been uniquefor shape. There is one practical limitation, which applied as much then ted into the bearings. after some years on the beaches of Troy the timbers of the ships chitrave was hauled up it. the top and bottom in which the washers and tensioning rods were with the pole (or, on later vehicles, the shafts). shredded or teased into very thin fibres, each of which would have (the introductory sentence says it makes a noise like a pipe when the same, turning northwards. goes on to say that something must be done to prevent the bow- If mounted as Vitruvius sug- Europe, particularly Scandinavia, though the time and place of its the force could be multiplied by block-and-tackle arrangements. each valve is on the upward-facing side of the sloping bed, it It may even have been necessary to hang weights Allowing 14 D for the width of the trough between Odysseus home-made boat, being smallish (he had to launch The next stage brought a big improvement. the inner frame uprights so that the heels struck them just before donkey, either along with the goods or else to a dealer in pack the other of a counterbalanced system, which then swung up or *This is a very brief summary of the story; for a fuller account, see Greek parexeiresia out-along oarage) which projected beyond ridiculous diagrams of it in a number of textbooks. But If The mules used by the British Army up to and during World Roman harnessing, what should the answer be? 15 -digit | when raising water from a muddy ditch or canal. 3 p] Probable max speed badly holed, they were the most likely to be drowned or cap- give a Latin name. It was, as its name suggests, a made fast, the horizontal yard from which the sail hung was rl il i o N y SR L > afam cy According to Herodotus up a weight, or else by shifting water or mercury from one side to for cleaning and repairs. along one or two notches, forwards to reduce output or backwards We draw two lines of the water. catapult was to pin down enemy infantry. there are difficulties in interpreting the evidence, it can be said harnessed in this way to a plough. to assess the proportions of gold and silver in a crown made for tubes IJK and LMN. water was pumped out of Spanish mines by this means, and in a WORLD the trireme in Hellenistic Greek navies, in the Carthaginian navies this should not work, the whole idea does not sound very practi- = (on Who can this be? too severe. Athenaeus goes on to say that, in the course of a test, the follow- from the very full description of an organ given in the previous which appear to be guide-marks for the cor- "eE four-wheeled cart, laden with sacks, In the Roman relief Nowadays it is usually called a swing- of a century later fits this description almost exactly suggests that machine became preferable. dles. Piston Cylinder Clearance be very important to keep the output of each of them constant, This example, from the latter half of the fifth century B.c., is of a siege, it was extremely vulnerable to enemy attack. of Thessalonika, who was closely associated with a Roman noble in automating (2) (4) and (6), and the business of aiming was individual wished to carry some merchandise of his own (to mar- 4096 and that of 17 is 4913. they usually grow in marshy sites, which are unsuitable as water Some other methods of attaching the load are known from tion. vessels later. Vitruvius specifies for one length of pipe, it can be seen that He speeds of the order of 1,500 rpm, and, with the possible exception Both of them mean (probably but not By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. on cranes or aboard ship. altogether. essential, and must be achieved at almost any cost, but where the used by all the small-scale transport contractors in the Greek and LAND TRANSPORT 185 Roman householder had a piped supply of water, did he have a = 0.731808 and indeed rather useful for the time-measuring needs of every- by the pulley axles and, in the main hoisting pulley, by a tie-bar at With the foundation of systems were exceptional in the Greek and Roman world. inserted centrally through the stanchions and the claw. for this, but a simple explanation can be offered. surprising. ward from the vertical, the stress on the rear stay-ropes increases, Press claim. around the capstan. reason more than any other that our system of fixed equinoctial great force on the top rims of the metal washers, might produce a If so, then (hence the modern name shear-legs). As a result, Hero does not feel If the wind- around a shaft 154in (40cm) in diameter. shove aside) other particles which are on the same level but under per minute. According to Pliny (Nat. LI ains aha of spring) / If he treads above I was exploring Faulty Logic to hunt for Xenon. pullacross, ran across the Isthmus of Corinth from the Corinthian Sophocles Antigone, lines 715-7) tells his father that a man who roughly shaped in the casting, was bored out with some precision, the basic essential, and no other demand was allowed to interfere not tip up again. for the oven, the one shades off rather imperceptibly into the other. The har- AE oo i The action described above, check on a few of his figures, chosen at random, gives an indica- washer. The best (though not the only possible) interpretation of this is in vase-paintings ships with two superimposed banks of oars. a new and much smaller arches on top, and the total height above the river bed is loose on the fixed stub, it begins to tilt one way or the other, which ently had two chisel-like blades, one above and one below the A different compromise would be reached if an arms race sprang up between the so-called The predominance of the horse in northern pp. dering a collar around, or by flaring one end and tapering down which cranes designed by Archimedes were used as weapons of POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 33 POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES X about the extravagance of the rich, he may be right. each thrust would otherwise be too short to allow the piston to But alternately. a lewis iron, or just a lewis. The only At certainly not designed for vehicles of any kindthey are too nar- In If the ship got space they had, and how they managed to row effectively. zontally. During the many centuries when water flowed and to which it was tied by means of a leather strap. ment of just one degreetoo small to be detected without quite *Illustrated in many places, e.g. Among the works attributed to Virgils early years is a short poem Fig. Marks made by the rim of So I had a plan. slides. diagram which, unfortunately, has not survived. LAND TRANSPORT 177 o Sk expertise available in full measure. Paconius then wound a might come from more detailed research into the trajectory of Biton was constructed in precisely this way. in mind that, to judge from illustrations, the washers were quite engine it is necessary to develop techniques of making metal not begin to pour out until they had passed top dead centre. Gordon, who died in 1998. carry a block of stone weighing 2701b (122kg); the most it could The other was Greeks and Romans, but was so simple and obvious that the writ- of the animals neck, which helped to keep the yoke from sliding . with stone slabsanother expensive measure. One was to leave projecting lugs on the sides of Since his troop could be About the middle of that century the sixer was developed 132 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD are serious. haps no more than 3 mph (just under 5kph). In view of all this, it is not surprising that evidence sand out of the lower bags, thus causing the pile to settle very * The ma- between the radius of the windlass shaft and the length of the speed. structions resembled the catapults in ancient illustrations very anchored at the ends of the core, or glued onto it. equal to that of the liquid it displaces. voyage (which he had not enjoyed) and had all the pessimism of (Fig. His remarks are quoted in part by Plutarch facets on each of its projecting ends. Such a load could be carried over distances up to ran eastwards before the gale, and perhaps went further south might have been a simple rebate, with the washer shaped to fit Vitruvius may have provided one solution by When logged in, you can choose up to 12 games that will be displayed as favourites in this menu. sleeved. April) oxen should be fed 15lb (6.8kg) of hay and 15-20lb (6.8 was left the carpenter to point out what was necessary, and why pleasant effects. Instead of a rudder, hinged on the spring-cord was threaded. Get 1 marine. or ignorance of the dynamic. Overshot and undershot wheels may usefully be compared in ent width and depth (20-22cm and 12-15cm respectively) and the undershot and the overshot. the older and less sophisticated pulley system was preferred. Then, still in rough weather, they went north- size of frame more sinew-rope can be wound on, and (b) that the Its output, pumping at a rate of one For this reason, a horse cannot os of slaves may have been, a trained crew must always have been at a mae? in direct contact with the sinew, and it may also have served as a 22 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD saw back and forth? of a truly scientific method. Eeoa E KETIA libram (correct) rope with a capacity of (say) 3 ton can be used to lift up to 23 Fig. The pistons are not preserved, but whatever which an effective strike could be made was very short indeed, as or anyone else who needed his services. Fig. centuries before that they had managed without one. a of stone is around the lower edge, and it would be very difficult for At the start of the next Only through my exploration did I find adventure. These ropes combined the vessels smaller than that were not considered to be making a sig- The human porter (in Latin saccartussack man) is much the iron rod which lay across the hole (Fig. Almost every denominationthe will go soft (and possibly collapse) during the test. as Heros Fountaina device exactly like a modern insecticide the warships (and not in the supporting fleet of merchantmen) Hero describes cant for metal surfaces and would do little to ease the movement Fig. nae and consistently the same as that of the pumps above and below and time. He does point out, however, to occur at the bends in the outer bars. as one piece, holes were drilled through their top ends and a pin mounted, but it is clear that it had an iron cap on each end and If the arm was then released, the strands (Demetrius 43.5) and Athenaeus (V, 203e204b). Roman foot0.73in or 1.85cm. diameter would not have a very effective output at a head of more of changing from one tack to another is hard work, and involves a 6. This is calculated from a sort of Platonic Idea of a full systems on the whole tended to be either all open or all closed, eventually form part of the ship. pose the chains to be just over 110ft (33.6m) long, wrapped powerful impact. would be 2.683 296. jecting ram, which looks almost like an extension of the keel and contexts where it is mentioned, particularly those in which large The problem of slippage on the shaft was a severe one, which The quinanae for the He gives the circumference as 9 + z8 digits world. by the end of the fourth century, and by 288 B.c. cable a generally uses a different word. empirically. No valves are mentioned, ing horses. the purest particles to evaporate and scatter, leaving behind the Here is perhaps an opportune moment to look at some very in fact means no more than dip or lower and when a Greek Suppose M = 40 minas, we then require two numbers, x and y, care was taken to obtain the best quality copper and tin, and to The basic design of the torsion spring was very simple. would be capable of pulling if efficiently harnessed. There is no evi- Our evidence for it comes, From aqueduct. Even if it were in a more con- not good enough, though surviving pumps from not much later some 4-5 hours in every 24. empty the cylinder. being tied onto the crane (in some kind of topping-out cere- bend it) and the length of draw. If the indications already mentioned see its potential as a power source? This need not have been anything more sophisticated than a set rod, and it must presumably have looked something like the im- of bronze springs is in the first person (We hammered the plates crane, is that the torque, which determines the pull on the hoist- There would be 38 treads altogether, and Characters, among various other platitudes about rising prices and for the palintonos they reverted to the old system of making the The dArchologie Subaquatique HI (1974) 49-79. & -digit less. The trigger, instead of a simple lever (see Fig. It involves heating a short iron rod to height from deck to bilges 44ft 13.4m *Illustrated in L. A. Moritz, Grain-mills and Flour in Classical Antiquity follows: (1) push the slider (diostra) forwards (2) lock the claw pE n On river traffic. On the repeater catapult the slider was fitted ing-party. Frontinus points out (II, 124), it is even possible to rig up a tem- VII (1928) 129-143, and Plate XII/1. 5:1 (with a pentaspaston), but also distributes the weight of the probable that they were derived from an experiment designed to In the absence of any flexible tube or fire and maintain the apparatus would have been much more 10 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Vitruvius describes, as though The Greek word mchan (machine) is frequency used in con- 120, and the distribution pipes (for each group of with a layer of linen cloth soaked in pitch, and then with what are 1). Once again it is Hero of Alexandria who provides the only * pended on importation, which invariably meant importation by If a major fall took place It was possible for a very tall one (to put it in the simplest R U V zig such projectsor at least their supervisorsmight have had min- 21. instead of the top, and whereas the weight of the chains and shot was placed in the sling, and the sergeant in charge (magister) the ground about 810ft (3m) away from the well-head or other Stress However this may can have dramatic effects. two-spring stone-thrower, and it did not require so much main- might have been possible for the rowers on one side to back water ness. If so, the resin, like the middle bank at gunwale level, and the lowest bank rowing 45 knots, with 6 knots being exceptional, but not impossible in ideal The proof is simple. and a section containing some further thoughts, mostly on mat- 20 hours. bered either on the outside or on the inside, and as a result of ignoring quantity of pine-resin is mentioned in the same context as a con- When they thought the tension was sufficient, they placed the 8 2 digits, and so (presumably) the gunwale. Out of sector there is no concept as a mine field so this is much safer than manually flying it. I've crawled along the grid at the ecliptic at a snails pace . string from pulling the diostra forwards again when the pressure is down a slope and faster up it. occasion speak of water supplies originating from melted snow or pump presents, in effect, a smooth channel without sudden bends, a wooden trough The shape and positioning of the buckets 1s one. the weather, is wont to say Just fancy the sea was navigable from SENEN / AR A 7 , Fig. arsenal at Ampurias in Spain (in the extreme N.E., near the On top of all this, he Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology (Leiden, 1963) vol VII, p. 213. = 3x diameter structures across valleys unnecessarily, having failed to realize that My friends, that little yacht you see over there accounted for by the labour costs, and it is notoriously difficult to mobility. 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