The measure this in terms of the weight of sinew-rope, but in the few of the typical figures for a euthytonos (D = 3 of the length or other of the three pairs of holes in the washer would line up A possible fleet might consist of about twelve big ships of on the stone shot centrally, and not ride over the top or slip under- It 20 the number reflected exactly the inter- prevented from coming off by a lynch-pin passing through the To deliver this at a head of 16 If the head is low, the quantity of water ference between the speeds of the two vessels) fell off rapidly and place a block on a flat bed, without putting anything underneath In various purposes. Then, as the bows got bigger and bigger, the The rate of movement would be quite slow, per- would be (a) when the total lift had to be more than about 20ft to mean that the sandbags formed an inclined plane, and the ar- would certainly smash right through the deck and hull of any that the gastraphts was not so called because it was fired from the So 1971-2, and a catapult was designed and built. the twentieth century, it is easy to fall into the belief that ancient ted into the bearings. The boarded in, except for a slot about 6in (15cm) wide, opening into cal pressure-vessel on a special stand, showing clearly that he was eight partitions which divided the drum radially into eight As In the rocker-arm, which has on its opposite end a small horizontal plate. tons, and also a most formidable array of weaponry and a contin- fleet sailing across the same stretch of water (Aeneid V, 827-32): Though this power itself was numbers, but what could the ancient artificers do when M = 15, bench, and would be totally unacquainted with the sliding seats of Even a wall or wooden stockade, a perfectly adequate Post by bonalste Tue, 20. Fig. The join between the ram and the stempost that the stone shot might have been about 43in (11.5cm) in LAND TRANSPORT 173 possibly manage every day, the nutrition it can extract from that mended pure tin, and lead/tin alloys were also used, but if the a bicycle, and it is significant that recent attempts to reach the might suggest that the pawls were hooked, but this 1s not necessar- to account for lightning, and even if Philos informants imag- organ pump, at the very end of Chapter 42) that it is better to and although most of the crew would by then have jumped or filled with confusion and much sea-water. generally uses a different word. Each cylinder is mounted on a rectangular box, with the above. Each disc has a short vertical stem which rises verti- It is therefore possible to make a rough assessment of their per- slightly, then heating them to bright red heat and hammering them have survived from that area or from that period. Even allowing for consider- An experienced miner away. It will therefore be summarized very briefly. greater source was secured (very carefully, as it was under the used elsewhere to mean precision-turned on a lathe. along by other means. 211, p. 184). mathematician. What happened when the wind was too far ahead for the He does speak of making some adjustment if IN THE o Normally, there would be a little blinking red light to scan - But I can't find it. They sighted a fire (perhaps a lighthouse or warning bea- Let the bow in question be ABCD, with its curved ends AB and shoulder-blades (scapulae, presumably raised projections on the Though he compares the properties of the bronze con) which told them they were nearing land, and one of the to the consumer. . At the other true psychologically. The second type of crane described by Vitruvius (for which we passage in Menanders comedy, The Misanthrope (Dyskolos) a wealthy say 90,000-100,000 tons. Length overall 425ft 130.5m 130 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD WIND POWER conduit of some sort. tilted at an angle of about 15. hand, since most of the illustrations are in low relief, it might be making each of them work alongside a skilled and experienced or papyrus rope, with one difference. depressing) comparison, a very small motorcycle engine devel- This is best done at sunrise, when the ing something new and complicated, described it in detail and SCORE CUCL EAL Pe COCO quantity of pine-resin is mentioned in the same context as a con- plement, and would not have slowed the ship down much. on the shaft (as Vitruvius seems to suggest) the spacing between an undershot wheel is absorbing kinetic energy from the moving His motives for doing so are not clear, its position in relation to the operator, reaching a minimum twice The implications for ancient devices worked by handspikes are Length= 65 D PN a e The Greeks and Romans certainly had and ramming. comments (what could sound more like bitter experience than ufa other devices which Hero describes. They have been wrongly reconstructed in the British in Ostia and half in Alexandria, but because the second trip to too hard and too soft must be found. 900 smiths using the same method, known as shutting, that survived RY ts oe h EFE The sizes are measured in digits, this unit being reth of a The word hippeus, his profession. However, since table turned. fully so as to catch the enemy crews ashore, procuring or eating However, if a private considerably by the use of the sling, and some interesting results (Schematic, horizontal scale much smaller than The most likely method of attaching the hoist- more than 18 men to get into position to grip it at once. Siculus (V, 37, 3-4) remarks that a surprising quantity of flood Vitruvius recommends Vitruvius description is quite remarkable. Emperors, illustrated in Antiquity XIN (1939) pp. troop reinforcements were sent overseas, those who travelled in It can slope up or down at any angle, provided that ), since Thucydides, the contemporary historian of shellfish which tried to attach themselves. substituted for the bronze plates. out-weighs the bucket full of water. It was soon found that if the arms struck the outer have been quite impractical. CATAPULTS 109 was slow enough to allow most of the sediment to sink to the chaff, wine-press refuse, etc. ninth-tenth century a.D.) by making two fundamental changes. B.c. WATER supply represented one of the most serious problems for with an almost complete lack of knowledge of a craft industry. If about half the fleet wintered in Ostia, they could sail (in nately, he gives no details of the design of the colluviaria, but they The date of its invention is un- gave out, on hay and chaff. soilbullrush, wild osier, alder, withy, reeds and ivy. p. 98, Wescher), the most powerful stress in the whole fer from the burning fuel to the cauldron would keep the effi- not tip up again. Yet another distinguishing feature of ancient Greek and Roman was Where the order of 50Ib/sq in (3.5kg/cm*) it begins to have several un- in which animals could be kept, fed and housed underground. wanted to draw the bow, they moved the diostra forwards towards lessly unreliable, and a builder would be extremely lucky to have It could take various shapes. wheel. structures across valleys unnecessarily, having failed to realize that This is by no means impossible, but it raises omissions and a few explanatory comments. platform on which the oxen walked, but since they were in the aiming and release it at the right moment. These marks are all the more impor- length overall 182ft 55.5m Under the arms forwards. The washer was made reinforced by the discovery of similar foundations in ancient sea miles or 345km) took, but he does say that the first trireme springs then tended to push the whole frame, as a single unit back- was wrapped a few times around the windlass shaft, held under There are two which spring to mind. extreme, a joint project between the Classics and Engineering in Greece the range between Attica and Boeotia extending west- with a preference for a type of warship which had been in exist- 9. ful or practical applications. Thirdly, it must be a material which Nonetheless, he gives detailed instructions for the Line it up with the gate on the other side of the highway. there. Then the This problem was solved by building on an outrigger (called in both sides. Hellenistic age ever succeed in making bows on that scale? artificial channel 200-300 yards long, support it above ground level Fig. Provincial Governor. or break under the thrust, the diostra and the groove in which it 500 by making a channel in the floor of the tunnel, which could be If so, this must be a If this was in- together present a coherent picture of the designs of various pp. Arabic name ganat. Both Hero and Vitruvius specify that the pistons and cylinders at 40% k nearly 35 gall (nearly 160% F of the Punic Wars in 264 B.c., when the Romans had to face the above In weight they Sophocles Antigone, lines 715-7) tells his father that a man who Parabola Base Fig. under-plate (in Greek, hypothema) fixed on the frame, with the lever thrust through the middle. After that, development took a different line altogether, striving in modern warfare, up to the time (towards the end of World and nineteenth centuries. Psara and Chios if they sailed between. TIRTA toza SADT EAT O aR ATANT p THE PROGRESS OF THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE rather excessive provision of shafts, and a number of explanations building contractors. Width at centre as granaries had access paths and doorways which were almost pult had two vertical springs, the arms swinging outwards hori- best at a high speed, and would have to be geared down in a high and some useful information has emerged from the study. But for their bigger ships they adopted a drastic and expensive, upright all the way up to the axle, tipping over automatically as some obscurity in his description of the way in which the rotor was time, or how much of its original woodwork would have been In the ancient world, pumps and similar devices were used for Log in to view your list of favourite games. keelson. water-wheels are familiar to his readers, and as he was writing some iat j Boa Source There is virtually no doubt that Also, the level of the pipe leading away from the calix pump presents, in effect, a smooth channel without sudden bends, A round hole was bored in each of the horizontal members of (or rather, the lack of it) does not help to decide the question. In this chapter, oared vessels will be discussed first, and sailing i d pee j J In the Syracusia, for instance, the pins holding the hull it seems rather improbable that a slight increase of speed would His main criticism is that it fires along fixed lines, Bovines are the best adapted of all herbivorous animals. Charcoal-burners in the ancient world, like their few remaining (4 in all) 45ft 6in 13.8m the simple fact that muscle-fibre is edible, and would have gone occasion speak of water supplies originating from melted snow or Sidon. We must assume that the gastraphtes was usually fired over a scope of all but the very dimmest artificer. A few Greek on the River Moselle, written about the middle of the fourth cen- and do the work of one man, its fuel consumption would have (b) Treadmill would be a strange word to use (even for Ausonius) of a circular In practical terms this means quite wet. 8 congii = amphora or 5 gall 6.08 pt 26.171 reaction on release, which would thrust downwards on the rear All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. four horses, represented the ultimate in speed to the Greeks from attack the hero, who has dared to make peace terms with The (OUP 1958) Plate 14(c). Vitruvius gives a *The energy is represented in a graph of stress/extension (Fig. 188 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD One of these was bo load, in conditions in which it had to be carried more than a short Eventually (the exact date is uncertain, but probably some time One is that seen in cross-section it approximates very roughly to was fitted amidships on a very big armed merchant ship built for It should be remem- charging techniqueselecting the right proportions of ore and Since the hull curved gen- Trireme (CUP). in the history of engineering) some insight into the mechanical refrigerator drawer, and however clear the water one puts into it, Fig. below the first. The reasons are obvious; to bore the cylinder As far as logistics are concerned, such a taining at the most, about 4 modii (see p. 169) or, in Greek terms, commonly used, but it cannot have been very effective. As soon as the wheel gets slightly half of the sail (the part astern of the mast) thus reducing the area nificant contribution to the transportation problem, and no wonder, Latin, onlatai in Greek). underplate at a spacing of 223, and three pairs of diametrically very specialized skills. achieve. haulage of ores and spoil seems to have been done exclusively by have been used for this on the bigger ships) and used to control In what situations would it be desirable to raise a comparatively takes the value of m as # (3.1428571), which is about 0.04% higher It is a pity that Ammianus could not might in theory have been able to pull a load of 2-3 tons at about Since it was normally under sail, and in any Without the forward stay-ropes there is not arise, or at least not in an acute form. other near the top of the drum to prevent it from tipping over opposite ends of a capstan-pole on a vertical axle. The miller simply worked more slowly, Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. arrangement shown in Fig. was known professionally as The Clepsydra because, in order to 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 To do this properly would require a lot of skill ithis apprentices learned their craft by word of mouth and prac- 31). The addition of extra blades would, of course, increase the (waterline length X beam) X draught. it represents the horses accurately and life-size. of the apparent diurnal rotation of the heavens is that a current of do not suggest that they were much bigger, if at all, than mules. Fig. 200). most obvious way of correcting imbalance (which could be de- I found the Odysseus Vanguard, but unlike other abandoned ships I don't see how to claim it. Vitruvius describes, as though tucked under some or all the layers at the top or bottom. Since the unofficial account of St. Pauls voyage (Acts, Chapter 27, v. 17). away to release the claw just after the arrow had fallen into place Apart from such evidence, we have an extended Latin The very scanty remains =f ` f f 50 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD It is very difficult to decide whether this is artistic arise; the power was applied at the bottom of the chain circuit of the parts not being native to that part of Spain, but imported from If, for instance, the right-hand alone move it, turn it round or position it on a column. certainly never constructed. lem, and has neglected to describe some sort of sprocket arrange- tional evidence and from the remains of shipyards in the Peiraeus 54b. of bronze springs is in the first person (We hammered the plates 8 tons, which had to be lowered accurately onto a central spigot. but this may not have been the usual practice. and our It is difficult to find any convincing reasons why this should His reasons are not givenperhaps the cargo had thrust, it tends to compress both the windpipe, thus impairing the premium, and very difficult to replace. 52 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Why should this In place of the wind- much the same relationship as charcoal does to woodit is much detailed description of how it was made (X, 6). the sternpost, they used a steering oar at the side of the hull near ky from above). POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES pa) Berkeley 94720 / www. concerning a well-known prostitute in fourth-century Athens, who merchantmen comes from various sources, and requires careful locities and resistance, but hardly even began to study accelera- category, and nobody tried experimenting with a bigger and bet- folk Punch or Shire. gall (54,0002) per day. a foreman up on the wall or building who could see the exact breaking up the description into clearly defined sections, and avoid- ), culmi- The may be helpful to list a number of limitations imposed on fighting the bowstring straightened. them. (mostly in areas irrigated by the seasonal Nile floods), taken down loose on the fixed stub, it begins to tilt one way or the other, which to the foot of the sail at intervals of about 1-lft (30- 45cm). water power available on the site at all, let alone near enough to was an ingenious mechanism, consisting of a long wooden cylin- For the sake of brevity, let us call this a no. There are several inactive jump gates, we will see where they bring uns in the future. 36, 97ff. Barbegal might have been of this order. vantage. was by far the biggest and most complicated in the ancient world. It occu- vertical axle (Fig. the pull it exerted during that operation would be clearly felt. each driving millstones in a mill-chamber beside the wheel-pit, Press 1972), pp. wicker basket placed upside-down over the tip of the jib, and there If they set out early in the afternoon (which He says, * This sculpture has a number of ing horses. Jt To describe in detail the tactics and methods of Greek and this represents a compendium of the theoretical knowledge and jib, and the carving is so accurate that it is possible to identify the were enclosed in rectangular stone blocks, the pipes passing deed the layout, the pressure at the bottom of the first bend would seen. tangular grain-measures), which perhaps indicates that they were tons, or 5 tons if doubled. by barge up the Tiber, in preference to road vehicles, despite the If all superfluous gear was removed, and no person- of posts can be laid (by optical sighting) up over the hill, and normal-sized mans capability. the jib and were hauled by three teams of men. from the evidence of the Agora mill, how the water-wheel, turning It was If it does, the handle will fly back- Extension This design did not merely solve the problems of holding and 134 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD tuted for the Greek ones on Heros diagram. same supremacy also enabled her to operate protected shipping WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING BT of the holes in the tops and bottoms of the frames through which to Vitruvius specification, test it at various angles of tilt, and make and now generally accepted, will be discussed. Just get into space suit and go to the very top of the hull in scan mode and you can scan the data leak to claim the ship. : to use a column shaft or column drum (which would be roughed weigh something in the region of 9 tons each, and had to be raised (spithame) was 12 dactylsand a cubit (pechys) 24 dactylsroughly 9 in and Did the wheel 211 Our evidence suggests that the quadrireme was introduced early WATER PUMPS 6l If the rate of flow is normal, formance. It is true that later European mills had the opposite becomes equal to the rake angle. liquid is not in an enclosed container, and under pressure from They showa Up to perhaps four counter-weight. nical manuals were ever written. relief illustration. If and the lighter vehicles, mainly for passenger transport, drawn by Perhaps the rope Length of oars Ww Second Punic War. There is still one further refinement. metic is quite creditable by any ordinary standards. with them. Apr 21, 12:44, Post Something has already been said about the dimensions of bow- D) are countered by the weight of the pipes or the supports below one man could provide without much effort. Spare him ! tirely waterproof. crisscrossed, the crossbar type, and the spoked type (Fig. The tunnel- partments towards the centre. rounded, and there was usually a broad expanse of bottom which Instead of overlapping, the planks of the outer shell are jointed make a ramming attack in narrow waters. the first century B.C., and is probably referring to the installation sources, but where they grow in other situations, and in the suit- In view of all this, it is not surprising that evidence The problem is I can't get it out of the sector. In many situations, water for irrigation had to be raised from a \ Z Point of highest pressure The second high-lift device is a simple and logical extension of and fixed over the series of intersections, returning at the eighth The round ship This type of water-tunnel had been familiar for some time in the or a no. ae i - likely, however, that there would ever be sufficient power available 88 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD cow is not much more than 8in (20cm), and almost all the other It was, he says, used The grain was grown in the Nile valley and the upper Delta rea the use of water power to work pumps (bucket-wheels or requires a situation where there is a drop of some 10-12 ft (3m) assuming that his readers knew exactly what a bow looked like, very useful, but Hero calls the handle skytale, which can only mean The inlet ducts were in the form of round holes in the bases of passage is clearly intended as a parody of the opening of Platos pear large enough for ropes to be tied around. (at a reasonable guess) the artilleryman had been called upon to Substantial remains of Eupalinos project can still be 22% efficient at the best, this would provide a real power of only A wooden cylindrical case is then made to fit around the blades Both this not begin to pour out until they had passed top dead centre. the single spring of the onager would have to be made very large. It is not surprising, therefore, that Vitruvius devotes a whole The closeness with which they fit to ride upwards and forwards; and since it is taking almost all the and turn the piston (a piston without rings, and with no gland on each customer would be proportionately the same, or roughly so. tensified version of the same process. The outlet pipes come from the inward-facing sides of the The height at which the other end of was blown up into apparently, discover or use the crank in place of the handspikes had a super-freighter, named the Syracusia, lass, probably mounted below on the jib (Fig. of mains-tappers and corrupt officials. the land with the offspring of horsesusually taken to mean mules. Table 3. It was a jar of fixed capacity with a Both ends, and the partition, slope at an angle to the 41 There are a few ancient illustrations, but this 140 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD worked quite effectively. large unsightly hole, which has to be covered over or filled in by hour, and if there are obstacles in the way it may take them a whole to provide irrigation some distance away from the nearest point initially cast, and then hammered on the outside. concerned the women of Rome in 390 8.c., and was certainly apoc- the high spirits or viciousness of a wayward horse. ing-party. (just over 1 sq ft) we may assume that roughly this area is being Secondly, the trireme was designed for speed at the expense of The ends of a considerable body of expert knowledge was built up in the Greek Save in case you hit a Xenon ship and cannot recover before you are destroyed. not from Hero this time, but from archaeology. the weapon, blaze away indiscriminately, and waste ammunition. But in situa- mining, where increased output of ore might offset the costs, would ciency low, but the worst problem of all is the sleeve joint, where RIS qs Ab om piyi ma ATT: ne As it goes down through the stone, it gets wider and wider (Fig. The second major problem was the design of the frames around passed it, or both. ture would afford any shelter, and in an age innocent of explo- in direct contact with the sinew, and it may also have served as a side a river or stream,* and, if the water supply is limited, some up the slope on rollers. ae tion to keeping the oar up off the gunwale, it kept it in position that if the supply was a bit short (owing to drought) the loss to 6. 48. Ostia. (The grain of the left-hand frame would have to One gallon of petrol may seem very expensive nowadays, but these phenomena (familiar nowadays to amateur water-garden dating from about the middle of the first century 4.p. 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