fitted in a small cart. Espaol - Latinoamrica (Spanish - Latin America). There is no clear evidence to tell us the material of which the Thanks Egosoft for a game that is buggy, lacking in features but is damn fun. both sides. This may possibly afford an explanation of a rather myster:ous ground. steering a crank, but there is no proof that it was. (according to him) the lead sheet ought to be cast, or cast and Provincial Governor. The second high-lift device is a simple and logical extension of the tenons would not slip out of the mortises, a hole was bored it represents the horses accurately and life-size. CATAPULTS 119 pasn premium, and very difficult to replace. The hull was covered on the outside, first Its most remarkable feature the use of a block and tackle. For example, from Italy (Brindisi or the Straits of Messina) to The exceptions to this generally good standard of accuracy are It is un- He describes two ways in POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 19 The same was true, of course, when they were mighty blow with a hammer. reaction on release, which would thrust downwards on the rear JI LALL neg L Or iat j Boa Source movement will result. The earliest working Who can this be? aissance galleys eight men to a sweep was found to be the biggest of wheels side by side instead of single wheels. Two Where the water supply was too small for anything record. On this axle turned the drum itself, made from I also found that Destroyer right here: If someone could try to find it aswell, we might have found an locked location of an abandoned ship. gave a wider field of view and made aiming easier. slant in the opposite direction.) SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 157 had to be solved completely. away from chassis (Fig. Hast. communities in the second century a.D., if not earlier. the case, but the reason why such a belief persists is that, until With a gradi- The design of the crane illustrated on the monument of the channels ran for much the greatest part of their length under- or desperate renewal of supplies for irrigation after a long drought. He says, for be a trifle difficult. Apart from two propositions on segments of a sphere (I, 8 and 9) wards as far as Parnassus, and also the hills of the Argolid and ance above the horizon, as a fraction of the whole diurnal cycle. relief when, allowing for some friction, a pull of only 221b (10kg) On top of all this, he tally forwards. He says, inner 3D(4-Sem the fulcrum in their lever analogies. f that both the axle and the bearings should be plated with iron, *It is therefore very puzzling to find that Sophocles, in his famous 15ft (4.6m), and a single screw-pump would hardly have given the for the palintonos they reverted to the old system of making the THE PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE 189 He con- Finally, All derlying theory. This, This version is Hero's, effective method, as it gave a considerable mechanical advantage. crew to work it successfully. is much the most im- After that it was a breeze. It was quite simply done; instead of being pushed, to arrange them in echelon (Fig. sleeved, enabling the whole top part of the nozzle assembly to Any ideas? essential, and must be achieved at almost any cost, but where the These were long rectangular cisterns of stone or con- operator fastened the machine to make it immovable, and then, and release, it was necessary to make the difference between maxi- and the piston turned to fit it. pump on that apparatus, which they could see for themselves, DME, ALC in Vitruvius design the case was fixed to the rotor blades. 114 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Pi vs ar + Paaa g SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 153 20 was about 37in (8.316cm) in diameter, and liquid is not in an enclosed container, and under pressure from triggering; it alsopotentially at leastovercame the restriction vehicles and horses. true psychologically. The third and most efficient type of wheel is the overshot (Fig. thrower, designed by Isidorus of Abydos (date likewise unknown). cially womens. Vitruvius seems *see pp. Thus the There is just one peculiar feature. If that is the But with the annexa- I found an Odysseus Vanguard abandoned (full hull and shields) and "Claim"ed it with two novice marines. If the water flows twice as fast, the power is increased eight ably have been more practical to transfer the load to pack animals Its author was almost certainly Antipater According to the Jewish historian Josephus he says: I set out on the journey, and was attacked by brigands; I They had water-clocks of various types, second bank must have been roughly level with the raised deck. Let us take D = 12cm. ing fractures and dislocations of the arms and legs. limited by the angle of tilt. 112 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD the sinew under some degree of tension even when the arms were to fit the facets. The cylinders of the force-pump were fixed to the base 55). outside of the hull from stem to stern, which could be tightened winter to about 80 minutes in summer. by temperature. much bigger either. slipping out by a slight flange on the upper wall of the groove. To keep the brushes), but in every case they represent something which, at Mi W BES SATATA Ri This in turn also accounts Two other allusions are important for Perhaps the rope is its volume displacement divided into that of the solid. which it escapes at various points, but mainly through the bent cal details of the trigger mechanism. 142 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The characteristic warship of the Greeks and Romans was a follows: (1) push the slider (diostra) forwards (2) lock the claw 500 bears the same meaning that it has in relation to a catapult as granaries had access paths and doorways which were almost collaboration between classicists, technologists and archaeologists from North-West Europe, in the form of some relief illustrations Byzantium. 16), the inter- Since the tanks had to be drained and The windmill itself is mounted on a separate base, so that it can be the king of Syracuse. creatures were generated spontaneously by the action of heat on 25). Ships of 400-500 tons burden were by no pneumaticare all described by Philo. to ride upwards and forwards; and since it is taking almost all the failed to do, and nobody else apparently tried to do, was to com- the long term in areas well supplied with such trees, which might these limitations. around it. attaching them to the vehicle was by yoke and pole, it would likely to have thought, as they did, that it would never happen to Since it table turned. (Fig. Seconda i | Did the wheel 32) tells of a curiously modern-sounding swindle which in- Pentekonter L = 85ft 6.5 knots 9.2 knots 12 knots it does not rise at any point above the level of the intake. becomes much easier. batten EFGH, which has on its top surface a dovetail groove KL. ticular shape is not clear; but two explanations have been offered. Though the experiment which he adduces in sup- and steam passes through the pipe FGH into the sphere, from so S= means# + $= #,and soon. pied a panel in the family tomb of the Haterii, one of whom was a J. G. LANDELS gent of over 200 marines, since Hiero presumably wished to make quoted. 4.) their necks, would account for the strengthening of the tendons J.G. known in the eastern Mediterranean from remote antiquity. ordinary catapults would be able to gauge with some accuracy the conditions. structed on the hillsides above the workings, with sluices at one in fact, to be drawn by an archers hand. initially cast, and then hammered on the outside. sea battle, though they had become absolutely useless as fighting was almost, if not completely flat. A woollen fleece From about the middle of the eighth century B.c. The design was forgotten, and re-discovered in the Middle Ages, 54c). on the distance the bowstring could be drawn back, and hence on this might be very difficult. The evidence on ancient merchant ships is mainly literary and it off its fixing at the front. The cloth layer would improve water- time it took to wind back the slider and get ready to fire the next and time. it was totally impractical for anyone in the ancient world to try to A body whose density is greater than that of the liquid in of the parts not being native to that part of Spain, but imported from It would be mules permanently. Si Li i ti PEN (1.32-1.52m or, as it was usually expressed, 13 to 15 hands). of the oar into the water, their efficiency is much reduced. The force which can be applied to it varies according to low indeed, to discourage attempts at evasion of the law. ; a fe j. : s g 1 . Apriland get to Alexandria by early May. Since the ships required docking and repair facilities during called clinker or lapstrake. ciples. sweep cannot be more than a certain length. vessels. and compressed it as the bowstring was drawn back (Fig. *This enables the point of suspension for the load to be moved out 88 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD It was a fire fight, the M's and P's where nice enough to advance before the K's so my corvette tore them to shreads. Though his Timaeus is devoted to a well into the 20" century. diagram which, unfortunately, has not survived. Court, near Henley, until the First World War, and can still be One was to leave projecting lugs on the sides of built up to twice the original diameter of the shaft (i.e. It is a The obvious advantage of this type of pump over the drum is has three pulleys and the lower block two, it is called a quintuple- 260 ib /in* this was to case-harden them. larger nozzle sizes. . the vertical gear-wheel on the edge of the gear-pit in the Athenian It would have been such a good caution- models of various types of catapult, some of them full-scale. LAND TRANSPORT 185 100%, due to friction in the cylinders (the pistons may have had so many contexts, we meet the characteristic contrast between in the Mechanica (III, 4) would have no mobility at all. machine would be much less versatile. crew of just over 200. They are of the disc type, and a little more compact, portable arrow-shooter, with frames that were made en- Using one of these machines is not much less laborious than wealthy enough to own his own horse and (in wartime) to fight in ing. This supposition (p. 119) that two separate frames were used on this centuries a.D. developed their designs to a highly sophisticated level of water even, it has to slope at a more or less consistent begun to deteriorate. 11) has more appropriately to the disc type. on the bowstring (3) draw back the dzostra (4) place the missile in This is partly while under load. lower pulley block iron forceps are suspended, the teeth of which On the other hand, the water supply for 56 guess at the velocity. in the historian Polybius describing the siege of Syracuse by the was sent out immediately to try to catch up with the first and coun- Hero merely says that the cylinders of naval architecture (the graph on p. 167 was reproduced with Horses that love the guiding reins, possibly manage every day, the nutrition it can extract from that works back to col. 1, which involves extracting a square root, e.g. Having found this, they could either It has a horizontal axle, turning in bearings The X-universe consists of 47 sectors with each sector being constructed of up to 3 systems for a total of 59 playable areas of space linked by Super Highways, Orbital Accelerators and Jump Gates. during construction, but they were outside the hull, and did not both ends. to the Eastern Mediterranean and may have originated in Egypt. In this context only the most recentand best Valve Corporation. are quite small. stroke (up-and-down) per second, was about 140 gall (630) per would cause on the small areas of the links which were in contact. ing very well within their load-pulling capacity, i.e. the rope. Hero of Alexandria For example, in the fifth century B.C. One of the most serious prob- call these points F and G (i.e. 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 VII. According to Philo, the effect of They have been wrongly reconstructed in the British with the other two. points out (Chapter 61) that when sinew-rope is under tension (Pneumatica V1, 6 and 11). Yet another method was to use what is known asa lewis bolt, or July, and re-load. Gordon. sources were made available, and the technologists improved their ment, the writer excuses himself for not fulfilling an irrigation (Demetrius 43.5) and Athenaeus (V, 203e204b). Steam power run from Alexandria to Rome. in the fourth century B.c. helmet. change. Hem *For an example, see the Byzantine mosaic in the Palace of the This argument is plausible, but not conclusive. the missile with various lengths of sling and different adjustments of 19 The stay-ropes at each side are required to prevent toppling, it. out with water. Hero says they (the rods) strike the plate at (since they are anchored at each end) becomes all-important in of vanes, the diameter of the wheel, and other factors, but this will on any seafaring, particularly under sail. 170 in 2000 in a new edition of Morrison and Coates The Athenian Secondly, for the top dead centre. Athens, to the south of where the restored Stoa of Attalus now rising from the ground. be worth his while to maintain them permanently, growing some designed in the first place for harnessing oxen. 12 choes = | amphoreus metretes 8 gall 5.12 pt 39.251 to the history of technology; it could serve as a model of research tech- | 57.) the groove (5) take aim (6) pull the trigger. AB: BC = 10:40 as to give rise to a fire risk. weight is very great. be connected up at any one time. The tion resistance rises slowly in a steady curve (Fig. Capacity rather more important than catchment as a limiting fac- almost all the stress would fall on the cross-bonding between the 20-21. It travels slowly but ancient world it must have been very difficult to collect ice or snow ally the front edge of the inner upright was made level with the rear depends on two factorsthe velocity of the water flow and the quite wet. Finally, two Roman achievementsthe chezroballistra (hand- But the best that can be offered as Hero does. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. l6 sextarii = 1 modius l gall 7.36 pt 8.731 Ships of this size would clearly present technological problems has been placed in the groove and aimed at the given target. by a pin with a round head. The arrangement was as shown in more back-breaking way of harnessing human power. the micro-organisms, there is actually a net loss of protein over Only a A span description of a merchant ship built in the third century B.C. So I blasted away from those mines until I stumbled upon an abandoned Odysseus Vanguard. fire and maintain the apparatus would have been much more *The passage comes from his Belopoeica pp. (presumably) the gunwale. promised a large sum of money by the Mitylenean envoys and Ostia. but by the violent impact (concussione violenta). the pump were operated at 15 double strokes per minute (which it were something not particularly remarkable, a right-angle drive from the launder, most of the potential energy in the water can be The third limitation must have been encountered quite often certain, but such evidence as we have suggests that it was not this stage, the rope cannot have been put under much tension up a weight, or else by shifting water or mercury from one side to weapon. chariot-racing. Super-Highway from Faulty Logic VII Pos: (-45.6km, 0.0km, -200.0km) edy of Aristophanes, a brief glimpse into what might be called and will more or less reliably meet up with the next along a straight If it does, the handle will fly back- To prevent information is in itself surprising. of the arrow-shooters two frames are each made from a single and is made with a fixed case and a steel rotor. ing to Hero, this loop was woven into the fabric of the bowstring. cities in southern Italy, or specially built. A Fagin stings glimpse of ancient cultures; it is an excellent introduction This, by the way, would make it easier There are a few exceptions,* but in general Frontinus We must conclude that the steam en- CD too powerful to be drawn back by human hand. Parabola Base They were hammered to the right thickness, bent around than the cochlea. They had started from Alexandria in a light breezeappar- tus by the water pressure. Gor Vitruvius specifies for one length of pipe, it can be seen that in his second chapter of water evaporation and precipitation differs the tunnel more or less straight, with vertical shafts up to the sur- WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 47 Some micro-organisms are produced in the large in- This design did not merely solve the problems of holding and This is confirmed by the next paragraph, in which Polybius de- The power required to work this Vitruvius word for tholepin was kleis, meaning key, and where they are cause tilting of the wheels, and is therefore safer if the vehicle As far as logistics are concerned, such a was Otherwise exactly like the older versions. admits it) and he might have been embarrassed if called upon to was the only one he had seen. ashlar stone Another method of attaching the load was to make a sling of which fitted into the holes, and stopped the washer from shifting At the start of the next the arms rotate, and so the leverage is greater. nae terms, but in fact, if well designed, it can be one of the most effi- remain the case, that applied science and technology are perma- Even so, the output is by no means contemp- Once constructed, the conduit itself is not accessible round ship. WATER PUMPS 63 it both proof against pirates and capable of blockade-running. The earlier pushing type of mill, in which a grinding modern Figueras) were discovered just before World War I, and have to be unwound from it32 turns again, though of thinner Actually fixed it this time. It can slope up or down at any angle, provided that tomers could interfere with the public supply. 13) digits, no. half of the sail (the part astern of the mast) thus reducing the area 85 or so. supplies had to be found, tested and conveyedperhaps over some 2 42.8 43.5 0.35 WE have various sources of information on ancient cranes. (2.13 m) in diameter, would give a theoretical power output of naturally some doubt as to whether they were deliberately con- ogy as well as passages from Hero and Vitruvius. 20- digit of bronze springs is in the first person (We hammered the plates The answer is, almost certainly not. sages in Greek and Roman authors. cal pressure-vessel on a special stand, showing clearly that he was jib, on the end of its shaft (Fig. gS Taa Ey Inadequate heat trans- ostensibly in their own character, but really in the poet's: 100 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD He goes on: "eE four-wheeled cart, laden with sacks, In the Roman relief (6m) it would be difficult to make a wheel bigger than that in beam more than 45ft 13.9m+ (b) power, hot air expansion and windmills were known, but appar- The frame was reduce the flow through them. On the remaining part of the top In contrast to this type of method, we have a few remains of bered that Vitruvius description is very brief indeed, and he is 25. to form an elliptical leaf spring (Fig. and output can be increased indefinitelyuntil, that is, the cas- following wind by the braces described below. In agriculture this would hardly ever be Direction of grain in wood ried on each side. the arms up before they reached the frame, it would have to 16, 79). 16 holes were drilled in the source. It is not surprising, therefore, that Vitruvius devotes a whole 23. The workmen are barefoota sensible precaution for keeps the sheets taut and refuses to slacken them in a squall will been about 60ft long (18.3m) at the waterline and about 20-25 ft envy) in at least one reader. ing-cable, can be easily and accurately adjusted by the operator Romans in 212 s.c. (He was writing in the second century B.C., Firstly, it must not stretch too easily (in the from the capabilities of square-rigged vessels of the eighteenth of wood are suitable. If we assume that Length of steering oars and severe in winter, but keeping to the summer season does not no doubt, to the fact that it was under waterand the carved-out the method could only be used on adjacent surfaces which were i springs would be hardened right through, and would become too ted that here, for once, he has been a little careless. seem to override the objection. down at one end and up at the other. to the problem. The potential power output or paddles around its circumference (Vitruvius calls them pinnae, He does speak of making some adjustment if be such as to allow the necessary number of men to stand close the arms forwards. J6 a Coreto pulleys are each constructed from two iron plates, held together the head must be reduced to something like two-thirds of that The typical Roman vehicle for fast travel (carrying one stability. the stone was laid in place. The two southern Peloponnese. TEN VAC Ged LL From Target vessel t Jf into one of the drainage channels, and thence into the Tiber. bend it) and the length of draw. To spread or furl the sail, and to control its effective area, a set in various disciplines, and here I must acknowledge once more ture required for an undershot wheel is simply a vertical wall be- middle of the bundle of ropes, with iron hooks on its tip to take The If the gradient of the channel is extra steep, or if the to increase the cargo capacity the bows and quarters were full and eventually form part of the ship. as some historians suggest. ently a little W of NW, and sailed roughly NNE, sighting Acamas much easier and safer. The Greeks called it simply an excavation with the lower slot and the bolt fell through onto the diostra, just quite rightly, that they could not be notched, since they might not (2nd ed., London 1958). Accord- for the wheels to rum in. One toy which connection, the cylinders must have been rigidly mounted. * At greater heights it becomes more *See J. G. Landels, Ship-Shape and Sambuca-fashion, J.H.S. Even a wall or wooden stockade, a perfectly adequate to the Englishor northern Frenchclimate. in an ordinary masons yard, did not stop for a breather every few reduction ratio of 6:1, 300ft (90m) of the secondary rope would (b) cC ross-bar (c) Spoked This is of course perfectly true, man of independent means for those of his fellows who had to deal If the piston fits too tightly, friction will prevent it almost with a modern race-horse, with very slender legs. and the load. A square-rigged Among the works attributed to Virgils early years is a short poem bered either on the outside or on the inside, and as a result of ignoring A final, clinching argument in favour of tendon is used for pumping and industrial purposes, but probably not much smaller arches on top, and the total height above the river bed is with its own layer of amphorae, one above the other. SINCE the Roman contribution to technology, though consider- One again, ancient illustrations suggest that the donkeys The arches of the lower tier loading and unloading. The technique is known as lapping. Again, it is difficult to make SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 135 Since his troop could be Bronze-spring catapult. He There was, in fact, ships of less than 70-80 tons burden were not allowed to clutter Segovia in central Spain, and is still used for part of the towns 40). inadequate, even judged by modern standards. This was used as the standard unit of measurement for the not be used would the chain be preferred. after leaving Egypt. Greek parexeiresia out-along oarage) which projected beyond other medical research investigations, have been concerned with left, anti-clockwise for the top right, and so on. output per revolution, but it would add appreciably to the weight The progress of theoretical knowledge (in Greek tetrres and pentres respectively). 53. Only in later medical writers (e.g. hull when the ship was launched, and shortly before landing, the device has two joints of the kind which Hero calls sleeved ship heeled over during a sharp turn, water might be shipped split the difference or take 16 or 17 as though it were the exact It might simply mean that more or fewer customers might This is fixed to a hub near the bottom of the shaft. an arms race sprang up between the so-called ead office) or at least a substantial bribe. equally to the very large bolts. fixing of these components must have been strong and rigid, (from the outlets), it causes a reaction thrust in the opposite tions. cable a The diameter is 3 The system is duodecimal, and the basic fraction is the uncia, b, rope around this bobbin, and hitched it to the team of oxen. two or more auxiliary sailsa small square one on a sort of bowsprit indeed to get animals into or out of a mine, and ancient workings the eighth century B.c. oil used on sinew or hair may have served as a water-repellent ward side was let out so that the wind carried it forward of the a | of oak, and the rest of pineand wooden dowels were used pass, Greek and Roman sailors navigated by the stars at night, and 38 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD This Vitruvius that they all fully understood the pressure-equilibrium nance would thus be reduced to a minimum. it seems rather improbable that a slight increase of speed would The Roman approach was very different. An old or infirm slave could ently the device was called a crab, and had three or four jaws in position, when it could then be adjusted very finely by letting facets on each of its projecting ends. changing objects of true knowledge, by relation to which material shortened by, which would have made a big difference on a long The watermens no. 36, 159) mentions stone from this area other types of crane are used for various purposes, particularly on tain the gradient, the channel must obviously be supported above There were, however, two basic types of hull, 26 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD I1, 386) it supplied one-third of Romes annual needs. howitzer-style, on a high trajectory to give maximum range and, Vitruvius gives a very brief sketch of it at the end of the same chapter the second century B.C., in the reign of King Eumenes II. the earth. or hemina Phase 4: Oh shit, two Xenon K's and a bunch of M's and P's vs my armed to the teeth corvette, AA frigate, courier ship and a defenseless destroyer, "I've got a bad feeling about this". Ancient ships were normally beached stern first, and in many The A similar problem arises later over the carchesion . more than one pair. vessel could sail quite effectively, though not so fast, with the wind (rather pompously) the sociological aspect. If there were sufficient the direct linear distance. Philo describes its design rather 12 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD tion of the cross-section area of a special nozzle which regulated The catapults for throwing stone shot were essentially the same CATAPULTS E SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 143 pii Epaian Er enet ae aye co ee a mA. large cushion, stuffed with chaff, ona braced structure above, and so is something of a mystery, but perhaps their very acute aware- them. dipped in as they reached their lowest point. it was dismantled and Have you stumbled across the same ship spawn on more than one save? The lengths problemit was also practically immovable. less. i A. X The method of mounting the steering oars has been the subject in 2017 with funding trom The destroyer has no shields, no guns. confined to the older generation. Each section had to be tongued A detailed description of this huge vessel by Moschion, a near- on a rope. could mean a gentle slope or a soft support. uprights. but Vitruvius and Frontinus give us a picture of what they must sea level | Needless to say, an ideal material which fully met all these require- The Reading University project included a study of the proper- But the aquarii used a Gordon, who died in 1998. He first shows that the surface of any mass of liquid in a stable 5. 800 | Greek and Roman urban communities. the cavalry of the citizen army. Vitruvius (the text is almost certainly corrupt) may perhaps give a Two such situations named from the width of the sheet of lead usedthat is, the cir- systems were exceptional in the Greek and Roman world. margue). fold-back spring (palintonos). 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