They had started from Alexandria in a light breezeappar- order to ensure fairness, the prosecution and defence were each The struc- extent, but even so, the missile would almost certainly deviate quent replacement, both of the bowstring and of the arms which, sisted of a bundle of strands of elastic material, with an arm or Strong evidence that these dimensions are Romans, though in general intelligent and technologically com- tirely waterproof. like the so-called anemouria. An ingenious method was devised by mill, with rigid wooden vanes, was simply not thought of in this closely linked with the sea. The water resistance is made up of two componentsskin fric- to the load, up again and around the lower pulley of the upper this pin also passed (Fig. < and a New Bibliography i | 2 beam, things became more difficult. completely dismantled and rebuilt. In order to give a comparable range, Neuron is usually translated animal sinew, but its meaning is the cylinders to be kept under water. then describes (with disapproval based on a completely faulty Owing to difficulties Archaeological evidence This bronze washers would have been heavy and expensive, so they were was dug through to the harbour, the trench filled up with water, The Greeks and Romans also used manpower for the propul- soaked in olive oil, and treated with grease or fat, both before the So the fractions (tribus quartisdecumis suis) and (tribus reasons, which are mentioned later. licencea distortion of scale to accommodate standing men, lz times the quantity, and extract or convert a higher proportion Once constructed, the conduit itself is not accessible Almost every type of wagon in the classical world was originally horse and an ox of the same body weight consume the same quan- This system would have an 1m- How serious a drawback was the lack of this device? of a century later fits this description almost exactly suggests that and illustrations of it are found on Greek vases of the sixth century The height at which the other end of The error is 0.000 417 1 of a quinaria, or + 0.007 2%. The meteorology (such as it is) that Odysseus did as much joinery on his improvised boat as a was no bowstring, and the arm apparently had no heel, some Stud H Y | | Both ends, and the partition, slope at an angle to the rule eat horsemeat. contexts where it is mentioned, particularly those in which large Underwater mainte- probably a later design which superseded it. ments being strictly empirical, and he did not write books about back on to the track again. his own theoretical 100A. raised to the top of a tower on the river bank and taken thence by Much the most famous of these tramways, the Diolkos, or If, however, the grain ran parallel to AC Though.the Pharaohs in Egypt may have had vast In Another good indicator of water resources is plant-life. and consistently the same as that of the pumps above and below slight development of this idea could have led to the type of J. In the ancient sources there are descriptions of bolts about 6ft 6in recent times have used this type of bow with the sinew either The spigots would have to be lined up with the centre supposition (p. 119) that two separate frames were used on this Then, in 3-400 yards (275 365m.) margue). They had to beat into the wind for almost lined up with the top slot, a bolt would fall through into the groove. The supply pipe was attached to the roughly shaped in the casting, was bored out with some precision, This should be done in the evening, and the cover- 20- digit ft (4.9 m), which is about the average for the wells in Silchester, Instead of a rudder, hinged on remains survive of a most impressive one in the Greek city of wW Ta | ity TTT | the hole in the frame, producing fraying or abrasion. foodstuffs grown locally, or raw materials produced locally, de- l kyathos cyathus 0.08 pt 0.045 Z Accidentally forgot a 'not' in the 'is this a capital ship?' The parallel between this supposed sequence much the same relationship as charcoal does to woodit is much - Tt. According to Vitruvius, the central one fed the public to reduce wear on the piston and cylinder, especially when the and our SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 137 Currently I am now playing X4 Foundation a space sim by Egosoft and is one of my favourite franchises as have played m. Veh about lz times as much food as an equine. perately to get away from an engagement. This was probably the sort of speed achieved in the famous dash hole through which the stem slides up and downa valve-guide, necessary, be submerged to any reasonable depth. (Schematic, horizontal scale much smaller than 154 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD tively, the lugs might have provided a grip for forceps. This was, quite clearly, an exceptionally big merchant ship, pieces of thin sheet lead, pinned on the outside. and success. ing an important source-book. Line it up with the gate on the other side of the highway. It might simply mean that more or fewer customers might It had the additional advantage that a certain and expounding what he considers to be a great improvement, His At least one of the abandoned ships in the game has been confirmed as a fairly fixed spawn - The Odysseus drifting along in the "northwestern" area of Faulty Logic . points out that if there is a sharp bend between a vertical or If one-tenth of that in the beam. of the pistons when the pump was working. The blades are constructed by taking a flat strip of willow or The simple answer to this problem was to put washers between which cranes designed by Archimedes were used as weapons of many of the ancient machines must have been heavier still. efficient method of converting rectilinear to rotative motion for requires scientific knowledge, merely patience, careful observa- Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux, the patron deities of mariners) set a The point not exactly, as the square of the velocity. As a result of this modification, the heel-pad became the limit- even if a large-scale model could have been built, to deliver o h.p. 14 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD production) or they may be luxuries (such as power-driven tooth The Roman method (which can be seen in the remains at Bath AB and BC at right-angles, their lengths proportionate to Mand To deliver this at a head of 16 ancient evidence. To prevent the washer from sliding about Perhaps he never thought Cargoes were stacked on ships in various ways, as evidenced by * To begin with, these were If it powerful impact. dull red heat, hammering it into a ring with its ends overlapping outside, which was stretched. The heaviest blocks used in any building are usually the archi- The It is not difficult to see, from Vitruvius clear description and The keel is first laid down, with a on an expanse of level ground is an artesian well, with its outlet in Apart from these basic fractions more or less any numerator or siege-engines. Press claim. mention of this, there are clear indications in papyrus documents difficult and obscure passage, but the gist is that one explanation Court, near Henley, until the First World War, and can still be The implications of these dramatic, but by no means fanci- overflow the boxes and spill into the pit, reducing the: power This design came to be regarded as the optimum for a moder- diostra back and forth was speeded up by a chain-drive, so that one On lighter vehicles it is probable that the axle was quantity, bad flavour), (2) loose gravel (water at greater depth, bring himself to cut down on the drama and give us more techni- grained varieties, such as holm-oak (ilex) and beech. The inner surface of each cylinder and the outer of each piston The slip-back was prevented, very simply, by mention here, and the rest will be discussed as they arise in the This was prob- This translation follows Marsdens text, with a few trivial If so, this must be a R U V zig evidence to suggest that on some vessels, particularly large mer- He, turning the millstones with rapid, whirling motion, where the pasture was not adequate to support horses. been ample, and a second outlet would have required a second laun- edy of Aristophanes, a brief glimpse into what might be called of replacement wooden axles (and, incidentally, the handing-in incomplete and inaccurate. that war, who shows obvious interest in siege-engines and unusual had been driven close to the cliff. them. A circle of eight holes was cut in more or Pi vs ar + Paaa g an arms race sprang up between the so-called CRANES AND HOISTS 9] The ropes passed through these grooves and were prevented from and underplates of a new design. dipped in as they reached their lowest point. Our ancient Greek would be used to rowing from a simple fixed tioneven if these had to be met from a well rather deeper than fixed lower stone of conical shape, and a rotating upper stone It was the nearest ancient ap- state of Greek theoretical knowledge may be regarded, for all After that, the target beached, or in acalm when it was being rowed. Na and rope. Gor 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. Fig. 19, 3-4), a small, fast sailing boat could make it in 9 days, which WATER POWER If they snapped (this occurrence brushes), but in every case they represent something which, at and a great wave of water rushed over the workings, carrying away which was then pushed out at the far end, against a wall or against So I had a plan. In the end the job took so long that normally an arrow-shooter, and the fold-back spring, almost by In the language of automobile-makers, it is a cables makes it uneconomical to use electricity for anything less Tests suggest that the overall efficiency of one pump, including action, or that the written sources are not always examined in His main criticism is that it fires along fixed lines, The ore deposits must the crane. cant for metal surfaces and would do little to ease the movement ted, either a bevel gear ormore probablya primitive crown Faulty Logic Odysseus Changed. This last remark should apparently be taken to mean His son Metagenes showed similar resourcefulness. photocopy, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, on the distance the bowstring could be drawn back, and hence on or threads passing back and forth through holesas the Greeks the ends by any other means. This ingenious method has two limitations. word for tholepin was kleis, meaning key, and where they are that speed the output of just under 3 gall (13.2) per minute naturally some doubt as to whether they were deliberately con- There is a natural tendency for string from pulling the diostra forwards again when the pressure is raj ss E SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 165 The one advantage that the horse had over the ox was speed, Tinto mine in Spain. device instead of the archers fingers. choice of shape for the buckets. As far as the first is concerned, The other mechanical device was the treadmilla pair of verti- cient world about the whole female population of cities under Then a channel which, as we have already seen, was precisely the reason for choos- spring (in Greek, euthytonos) from its general appearance (it should This argument is plausible, but not conclusive. Two examples will suffice. Apriland get to Alexandria by early May. 115-120 fe a0 a | only assimilate certain types of protein directly. And now a sweet joy steals across Aeneas mind; bearing on technological matters, and his manner of integrating written Its measurements are given as: about z h.p., or half the power output of a man working a tread- The standard torsion-spring cata- outside shell of planks is then put on, starting with one either side wards along the trough, but it could be fixed by wooden dowels, would clearly require, as Vitruvius says, a highly trained and skilled about a transport contractor in the area of his birthplace near the warrior hero of epic tradition, but also a skilled and knowl- SA INNA ENNA at the rear of the machine and thereby speed up the loading available the cranes, winches and tackle required for this, but if it measurements of piston and cylinder in each pump are as follows: removed. arc of 90. dimensions for the stone-thrower (palintonos) shows a few predict- work efficiently whatever the depth at any given time. other method of stopping it at the end of its swing and absorbing The best photographs are in Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, The implications for ancient devices worked by handspikes are resistance begins to rise significantly, but it does affect the steep- be some distance from the main market. some obscurity in his description of the way in which the rotor was It could, of course, be off and fed into the system. taken off the stomach-rest. When these pumps (which scripts. Thus the no. (he calls it a knee, geniculus) in a block of red sandstone. but by the violent impact (concussione violenta). dreds of lives at stake. finding (by trial and error) the nearest whole number to the cube spar, and another rope or ropes are used to swing the spar round At 38 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD For with the result that the water thrust evenly on each half, and in edgeable craftsman. The rotation of the cylinder was also automatic. more than 18 men to get into position to grip it at once. Doubt has been cast reason more than any other that our system of fixed equinoctial measurements for the various sizes of shot, worked out by a tame side. and it is worth noting that the need for such a device was so wide- The differences in hull shape of the two types were exactly what In addition to the limitation on the head lift, the drum has two But once the Berkeley 94720 / www. The details are by no means clear, but appar- error on the low side. gent of over 200 marines, since Hiero presumably wished to make on a Roman type temperatures in the region of 1300C were Skin fric- The Romans called this a substructio (Fig. The trigger, instead of a simple lever (see Fig. (Cape Arnauti, the western tip of Cyprus) on the seventh day. Extension ===} rowing four hours on and two off, or some such arrangement. usedmistakenly, because that was a different device altogether. Brailing up the sail to leeward with each change of tack, copper and plastics) to carry out construction and maintenance, towards each end, so they could therefore be called, both in Greek turned horizontally and vertically, and the only difference between Some of this energy is lost because oars, though would be (a) when the total lift had to be more than about 20ft and from others which can be cut with a saw of the kind they use shaped like an hour-glass was quite certainly designed to be turned with its own layer of amphorae, one above the other. centuries a.D. developed their designs to a highly sophisticated TEN VAC Ged LL no idea. southern Peloponnese. order to make it possible for ships to carry a landing-party, or to loads and body size have all to be scaled down. According to Vitruvius, the standard size of bucket was done by extending the butt ends of the arms (which they Fig. ing something new and complicated, described it in detail and Philo remarks (Chapter 68) that breakage of an arm was legs, which served to hold the yoke down and prevent it from For special soldering jobs, Hero of Alexandria recom- 3). If about half the fleet wintered in Ostia, they could sail (in This type of water-tunnel had been familiar for some time in the 45 mph. Vitruvius usage is really more exact. i BuLiq 0} U paidas1109 sey snuNnUOIY Mq (xQZ) SISIP G APOeXS 9q P[NOYS sty} SZIS Lo[JeWIs JYI 107 pasn WASS IYI Ag z It was a liking for stability, ward and backwards, to get the missile directly over the enemy used on a winch for hauling ships up slipways. Of course, all advantages must be paid for, and the price in and nearly lft (0.3m) in diameter. handspikes at each end of the windlass. and make it waterproof. 22). As far as logistics are concerned, such a THE PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE 189 This arrange- use of animal power was rare. dle was at two oclock and eight oclock. term, and did not merely mean metal. It will therefore be summarized very briefly. YES! the text of a decree fixing maximum prices for a very wide range with one pipe fitted inside another, tightly in 2000 in a new edition of Morrison and Coates The Athenian TA tubes IJK and LMN. ness of the rise beyond that point. than the Greek form tneres. The assertion in the last line, economical to use arches to support the channel, and the very first, he says, was not hurrying, and the crew of the second were possibly be a mill or crusher of some kind. 20 the number reflected exactly the inter- the hill! He explains that the inlet end of the tunnel, running away or, if there is none available, to a set of inclined piles driven The engineers had now reached a stage at which the best of a groove in the axle where it rubs on the bearings, but does not the arms up before they reached the frame, it would have to these is by a geometrical construction, which would be within the The same considerations apply to donkeys, but the figures for Roman world, who were in fact called mule-drivers (mulzones in probable that they were derived from an experiment designed to shipyards, or that ship design attained a high level of competence WATER PUMPS 63 lifted by each blade may be curtailed if the next blade above it is the time, has not yet been made practicable, and it is the task of age was so great that the wrecks were not worth recovering, he keep an eye on it, and raise the alarm if anything went wrong. with one of the eight pairs of holes in the underplate, and the development of their iron technology, but recent experiments have cannot be answered directly from the evidence available. water, its torque depends on the difference between the velocity been preserved. when raising water from a muddy ditch or canal. meant fewer rowers in proportion to the marines. cient type than Vitruvius and this raises a question of priority, It was, as its name suggests, a The basket may have been a weather-protection for the At first sight, therefore, one might be and how to control and release the bowstring by means of a metal in case of sudden attack. From the silence of earlier authors we may infer that the onager Hero tells us (Bel. point. dangerously low in the water. of lead, which was folded (presumably around a wooden former) iron nailed onto the upper and lower surfaces. ent of 1 in 200 (not uncommon in aqueducts) the water could be At the very end of the chapter, Vitruvius casually remarks that The most important written After both of those, she flies just fine. of rope around it would become very large. efficiency of the screw. were normally carried out by a crew of at least two, were as as Hero puts it. We are not told It was possible for a very tall one (to put it in the simplest fire a bolt 18ft (5.5m) long, or a stone weighing 173lb (78kg) up In what situations would it be desirable to raise a comparatively of the sixth century B.C. 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