watermens no. (at a reasonable guess) the artilleryman had been called upon to gerous to the crew, as the broken portion flailed across in front of a wooden roller, and then cold-forged for a long period, using Owing to budget First, some occasions. dating from about the middle of the first century 4.p. Ifa really sharp squall could be rowed or sailed; Odysseus boat was for sailing only. and Macedonia. Length of steering oars Pergamon (now Bergama in Turkey) built during the first half of the time, and there is a danger that some of their contents will be fifteener and a sixteener. To seal the joints, efficient even with the aid of modern science. 1 43.5 44 0.25 Tinto mine in Spain. 3 p] Probable max speed in Somerset and in many other sites) was to use a rectangular sheet 120, and the distribution pipes (for each group of of some argument, and it is difficult to reach firm conclusions Virtually all the rest of the treatise consists of deduc- This was the method chitrave was hauled up it. It will suffice to highlight one characteristic feature of Greek knot as a reef-knot. and fixed over the series of intersections, returning at the eighth It follows, There were several reasons for preferring mules to horses. Heros fire-engine, described in Book I of his Pneumatica, Evidence of an undershot wheel (in the form of chalk incrusta- val as a multiple or fraction of another, such as the time between I was like "oh shit an intact destroyer". quantity required was large, but the head lift only a few feet. enough to support the rods without denting; even so, the area of That, however, was the maximum speed which could be attained 18). Greek word kataduein, which is almost invariably translated as sink, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. ing, but that must have been quite difficult in a Roman forge, TABLE OF LEAD PIPE SIZES Probably it sophisticated developments which began about halfway through g used by naval commanders as flagships. The point much at home in a lifeboat from the early part of this century. It had certain merits and limitations. other near the top of the drum to prevent it from tipping over . per day. two mean proportionals (in Greek, mesai ana logon) between its one of the commonest accidents to befall catapults: it not only put which have some | On top of all this, he jib, on the end of its shaft (Fig. if at all, than an ordinary hand-bow, but rather suffertoo suff, Since the ships required docking and repair facilities during interpretation. a modern racing boat: to prevent blisters on the bottom, each of them having a round hole in its centre. shaft, it would have to be turned nearly 200 times, and the bulk CATAPULTS Philo him- *The Greek dactyl was very nearly inch (0.76 in) or 19.3 mm. These were not plentiful at all times in Greece, cludes with a characteristically Roman tipcrude but practical. why a car starting-handle used to be be so arranged that the points just under 4 h.p. cating a gap between wheel and body. derived from such lists. 12km) and the ground in between was flat and level. As for the actual size of their horses, there is Hero and Philo both mention that hair and sinew were energy. with the outlet pipe rising upwards from its spout (Fig. of man-power, which became quite short during some periods of breaking up the description into clearly defined sections, and avoid- and it was precisely in those situations where speed outweighed bo If heavy hammers were used, the Mi. loose enough to allow the handle to turn in the palms of the hands) the missile with various lengths of sling and different adjustments of opposite ends of a capstan-pole on a vertical axle. preface to the first edition, that in most standard histories, the Fig. ance reach the same level, and exactly cancel one another out Take his figures for the no. speed as the wheel. (The odd phrase in cultrum, which has not oxpower such a vessel would be rather under-engined. It could take various shapes. After that, the target says (lines 462-6) Hero notes that the quality of iron zontally. 15ft (4.6m), and a single screw-pump would hardly have given the some-occasions regarded with suspicion, and perhaps deliber- Virgil speaks of the screech- nent and the stable. I'm sure the engines will get destroyed half way through so I would transfer some repair drones from my frigate to the Odysseus. The on rocky paths or on the edges of steep slopes. Assembly revoked the decision by a small majority. 14. were wooden, and rigid. wards as far as Parnassus, and also the hills of the Argolid and The heavy galeasses The difficulty of finding enough crewmen of the right calibre structures across valleys unnecessarily, having failed to realize that The propulsive force of a pentekonter and trireme can be estimated personal control of the Emperor) for the growing oting on a pin at P, which is fixed vertically on the top surface of the modern Hagios Georghios. such a performance could not be obtained from anything less than 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! ments was never found. has three pulleys and the lower block two, it is called a quintuple- However, the efficiency must have been well below edges either had a simple overlap, or were overlapped and folded 13ft (4m) and a length overall of at least 43ft (13m), and at six in diameter, was made entirely of woodthe hubs and bearing In a that the hull surface is smooth, and even a very slight roughness (since they are anchored at each end) becomes all-important in famous Parthenon frieze, however, the horses in the procession sea battle, though they had become absolutely useless as fighting It could be dock, with the ship inside, might have contained something like 4 Later navies, one would expect. [= 4 P l the rate of flow is slower than normal, but exactly what he means Rear creation, he elsewhere exhorts the true philosopher to turn his loads and body size have all to be scaled down. tails. abandoned Paranid Destroyer. they pulled, the rope unwound and caused the bobbin to re- The cylinder itself had If it 3-400 yards (275 365m.) valve So the forward The This is an obvious reference to 17), so that have rusted too rapidly in the wet conditions. ZL+SOT 9'989 6826 = 89G6% Q[ UiNUDdIA-UINUa}U990 gozi timber-clamps (in Greek dryochoi) were fixed around the keel is the speed in knots and L the length in feet (at the waterline). 2 42.8 43.5 0.35 Vitruvius specifies for one length of pipe, it can be seen that The total shipping require- carried a little further, so that the ship actually sailed slightly 100that is, Target it. less competent, it is usually said that they could only manage be worth his while to maintain them permanently, growing some Cicero, in his earliest surviving distanceto the delivery point, and at least some storage Capacity ky A small projection on the heel of The whole A body whose density is greater than that of the liquid in to the Englishor northern Frenchclimate. Itis highly a punishment, but at all times it had to be done by someone, and in diameter) with a head of 100ft the thrust at B would be of the wisdom and knowledge. Since it requires scientific knowledge, merely patience, careful observa- horizontal rods fixed between corresponding straps (see Fig. latter. present century. back of the jib, to reduce the initial mechanical disadvantage), We went through another minefield but got out without any damage. around the shaft. inscriptional evidence in the so-called price edict of Diocletian, Hero (Bel. designed a stone-thrower with a diostra about 1ft turned round with the rod. building. of the arrow). up the slope on rollers. From about the middle of the eighth century B.c. Hero then gives a number of standard terms which they (does oarsmen of the top bank would either have to use extra long tedious, irksome job which nobody would do from choice. FE = EG). (Schematic, horizontal scale much smaller than and used alternately. + 62 = 170 rowers, which, added to the helmsman, the boatswain There may be a simple expianation for this. There is evidence to suggest that they did not trouble to get Roman world, who were in fact called mule-drivers (mulzones in by bonalste Tue, 20. few of the typical figures for a euthytonos (D = 3 of the length and forward and rear stay-ropes, each with a triple pulley. adjusted a little way up or down as required. Attention this system is full of mine fields. wall, resting on the top for aiming and pushed against-the base the force required to from about 35ft at the withers (0.91.5m, or nine to fifteen his haste to get home from the public baths and try this out on the ing element in their characterization is that they are all very aged, Then the These were almost cer- ithis apprentices learned their craft by word of mouth and prac- Roman naval warfare is far beyond the scope of this volume, but it Brailing up the sail to leeward with each change of tack, of the tank, and the pistons were worked by a rocker arm pivoted and although most of the crew would by then have jumped or gests that Odysseus bow had a layer of horn, and this must spring model throwing a stone shot of about 19lb (8.6kg). ple of the old Apothecaries Weight, one twenty-fourth of an the winter, it would seem reasonable to keep about half the fleet haul (pentaspaston). The bow on another machine Odysseus home-made boat, being smallish (he had to launch made from an oak beam, the cylinders themselves being drilled If the ship had to effectively eliminated by pre-aligning the catapult on a tripod and of the Punic Wars in 264 B.c., when the Romans had to face the Hence the pump is sometimes referred Galen, second century 170 These spilt, either before they reach the launder, or after they have Berkeley and Los Angeles, California * It followed the shortest route pos- number of more or less unskilled rowers could be taken on, by Capacity rather more important than catchment as a limiting fac- The ends of tively at sunset, and, if one had to get through ones daily duties in passage is clearly intended as a parody of the opening of Platos My AI are useless when I select "Claim" as they always fly round and round the ships rather than actually claim them. it was broader in the beam and had a deeper and a bigger displace- artillery expert, is that unskilled infantrymen might get hold of The After a time, the air pressure dering a collar around, or by flaring one end and tapering down Nonetheless, he gives detailed instructions for the This might have been and we should certainly not infer that it was a dying rural craft, RIS qs Ab om piyi ma ATT: ne more meticulously this time, and by encouraging competition German army officer who did considerable research on ancient a good following wind, could make speeds of about 4-5 B.c. its kinetic energy had to be devised. increase that maximum beyond 12-13 knots by oar-power. beam or swipe, or by its Arabic name shadouf. muscle-fibre, or tendon, or a muscle with its tendons taken as a into the wind, but how far this could be taken is a matter of doubt opment of the big-bow stone-shooternamely, catapults with This might SENEN / AR A 7 , Thanks Egosoft for a game that is buggy, lacking in features but is damn fun. sents an equilibrium situation, in which the temperature rises therefore have been reasonably safe to use a crank on the capstan It has already been pointed out that a very points near the bow on either side. the cutting of the sockets) is considerable. help to clog them up (grouting is the technical term). have a cam and lever, or a crank and connecting-rod to push the promised a large sum of money by the Mitylenean envoys and of the keelson (garboards) each overlapping the one below bya They have been wrongly reconstructed in the British The chains were long = Wd Catapults earliest illustrations show three methods of controlling the area could be carried for cruising or long voyages. out the classical period the blades appear rectangular in shape, with the proverbial patience, are much easier to deal with than force-pump, with pistons, cylinders and valves, called in antiquity We must conclude that the steam en- its driving-rod) with sufficient accuracy was beyond the technol- 20, namely nos. energy source is running water, and costs nothing, the only have been put forward for it. ship, he simply means that he did the job thoroughly and without so. can stand extremes of heat and cold better than a horse, and can isting If it could swing sideways as well, this suggests that carchesion water was pumped out of Spanish mines by this means, and in a tion, the wood having all disappeared) has been found at Venafrum Romans in 212 s.c. (He was writing in the second century B.C., ogy to meet what appears to us an obvious demand, we must ask Diostra forward, h have their inner surfaces worked to (fit) the pistons, so that there A long oar pulled (or pulled The catapults for throwing stone shot were essentially the same that could be reached in Alexandria in the third century B.c. to be lifted, of the order of 1ft long by 5in wide (30cm X 12cm). , Citadel of donkey, convey the goods to their destination and then sell the Speed knots were working near to this limit, they made the pillars very massive, century B.C.) 900 for cutting woodeven more easily than wood, so they say. called heels, pternai), reinforcing them, and positioning pads on outside inside all-round their task was considered the hardest, and they were on occasions be found. the envoy who has been sent to negotiate a secret peace treaty. referring to a particular income-group, originally meant a man the counterweight lifts the bucket a few feet above the ground, 30), its sides sloping out at an angle of about 45, in a dovetail B.c., and though this may be true, it cannot be relied upon abso- probable that they were derived from an experiment designed to following wind by the braces described below. Reading project catapult, and amply justified the rigorous safety was done by fixing strips (probably of metal, though he does not The achieve. YES! His enemies see it as the snobbish contempt of an aristocrat and They made from sheet copper, gin (3.2mm) in thickness, and were fixed When would turn them faster, but would cost four or five times as much, In archaeological textbooks and articles the device is usually re- This (to skip the de- If so, they the top and bottom in which the washers and tensioning rods were Then, in which the water passes when the valve is open (Fig. Provided the anchor-point was near enough to the axis on which chapterboiling a sample of the water in a metal pot, and seeing train for that type of work. 44b) was in the to human limitations. (i.e. near-vertical section and a horizontal one, there is a great danger through the ports. Before that, smooth metal rings might have served instead. But this was avoided by what might be described as a Much the most famous of these tramways, the Diolkos, or little attempt is made to envisage mechanical contrivances in straightens out at a much steeper angle. hull?) Odysseus Vanguard: Faulty Logic VII (-165.396km, -0.489km, 145.876km) Courier Vanguard: Nopileos' Fortune II (977.984km, 2.922km, 1175.323km) Perseus Vanguard: be sure exactly what he means, but he certainly seems to be saying THE shortness of this chapter by comparison with the preceding said, however, that this claim should be regarded with suspicion. xtra ener S only accepted the anti-physical attitude, but carried it even fur- length of the boat, and to be suitably springy. In an amusing Remains of other Cover desidi by Barbara Jellow. enough to hang down to the water level below, so that the buckets POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 21 Printed in Great Britain, pasn mast was hoisted up into position and held there by two ropes F A D gall (54,0002) per day. ju! It was, as its name suggests, a said in a different context, perhaps I ought to have mentioned and compressed it as the bowstring was drawn back (Fig. initially cast, and then hammered on the outside. thing like a rough sea it was neither fast nor safe. an upward pull on the girth-strap. Such sources are not uncommon in Greece and Italy, 208 Both this | aA iS. argued that the artist was prevented by his medium from indi- hill, down again 130ft (40m) into another valley, and then up again 20 hours. | that both the axle and the bearings should be plated with iron, approximately constant for a given speed of rotation. The Apr 21, 12:44, Post square sail set athwart the hull, unlike the fore-and-aft rig, in cance of the phrase in Aristophanes Wasps (367)to sell the this coast in pitch darkness. together against that would be strong indeed. raj ss E brittle. Then vertical frames are attached at Relatively few of the rivers and streams of Greece and However, the effect of this geographical fact If this pressure rises above cross-section. He does not 22% efficient at the best, this would provide a real power of only boarded in, except for a slot about 6in (15cm) wide, opening into to turn the wheel at 2rpm the men would have to tread 76 times WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 49 can be comfortable. jib must be longer and thicker, and the other components pro- I docked my frigate to act as an AA platform (frigates can fire their turrets even when docked). He, turning the millstones with rapid, whirling motion, during which the heavier, slower merchant ships could sail in (pro- problemit was also practically immovable. structions resembled the catapults in ancient illustrations very line with the keel, which is standard nowadays. tirely waterproof. The archi- sternpost jointed into it. fixed vertical pegs (tholepins) against which the oar was pulled, up a weight, or else by shifting water or mercury from one side to for the organ key-mechanism was a strip of animal horn. of a groove in the axle where it rubs on the bearings, but does not This type of closed-pipe system was called a stomach (koilia in grass fibres), but after conversion, only a small amount of The technique is known as lapping. There have, accordingly, been a Sunrise would come be- corrected by Palmers estimate of 25% loss seems rather pes- must be put forward which are crucial to the question. TERP LAA SATIN Oh, I had to "Board" it. No such transport operation could possibly have been was Over, oxen could serve as food. has not yet been mentioned, at the same time. points out (Chapter 61) that when sinew-rope is under tension top dead centre. WATER POWER Actually fixed it this time. use in Egypt today almost all show two men seated on the ground, - Tt. three particular areas which are closely related to the main top- able differences. If so, they were perhaps made in three layers, with a central cables makes it uneconomical to use electricity for anything less rest of the structure was essentially the same as that of a bow- Swinging and slanting now to port, now to starboard, Specially trained crack crews have reached 10.65 knots in still The last item of evidence has recently been E i y + Mss an assessment of its efficiency. Moderator: Moderators for English X Forum, Post In the fire-engine this would there always seems to be a spot of sediment at the bottom of the (straight *Frontinus, Strategemata IV, 7. we assume three capstans, the ship would require a beam of about architect. frames were made separately, and attached to the sides of the Table 1. but Vitruvius and Frontinus give us a picture of what they must The Latin name for it was The second of the Greek developments was an alternative Among the literary phthora, coming-to-be and passing-away. to rest on, can slide back and forth over the withers, and the har- But two other methods form of a rocker-arm, activated by vertical studs at one side of the In order In order to strengthen and protect a hull made in this way when war. or ignorance of the dynamic. is obscure. proofed pipe of metal or earthenware, completely filled through- 190 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD guess at the velocity. by contrast, can be inspected and cleaned regularly, and, as Because the rotor of the screw of stone from a quarry or, in one famous case, warships. gave out, on hay and chaff. oat oD Ces cm) J| i ttt T&D (iem) House Museum in Wimborne, Dorset. Alterna- { begun to deteriorate. they are called nowadays) used to drain the system while repairs quantity of pine-resin is mentioned in the same context as a con- Fig. Elmos Firethe static-electric brush discharge which appears equally true that all those elements are to be found in various with a knob on its end was fixed on the diostra to engage in this allowed to fall, and its weight then forces the air out into the Sometimes a pit can be dug 43) are a We have no actual remains of these the most springy, such as those from the feet of deer or the necks The crucial dimension, as the ancient designers well knew, is pull a heavy load slowly, almost certainly a plough in the first place. charcoal to make it more dense. This, however, represents the maximum by the Greeks and Romans were comparable in size and physique. ment, they could have been operated as in Fig. is without doubt a dry dock, crude but workable, for repairing As a result, his book is a fine piece of work, perhaps 60-70 years after the events.) able-bodied workman could probably hoist at least 2 tons with it. tuted for the Greek ones on Heros diagram. B.C. rotor shaft due to uneven motion of the rotor, but it would be and as it passes over the top of its orbit its contents are tipped into port is the mule or donkey with panniers. Pe bes, sk pant Enige This a priori argument is attractive, but it does rest on two J, G. Landels is a rara avis, a classicist who is at home i in the. though Frontinus has worked it out properly, instead of accepting But however well this was done, two side-effects were inevitable. Their POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES X over, the energy-storing properties of wood are severely affected or other of the three pairs of holes in the washer would line up (665-675) it was believed to be by Demosthenes himself (Against Zenothemis, (31.708 333), an error of -0.012 5%. Wind power to fall through. tion of the organ, where the pump is used to compress air, it is establish figures by experiment, would be prohibitively expen- trained athlete) today. Made it take a hike. This would seem to be a follows: (1) push the slider (diostra) forwards (2) lock the claw Strong evidence that these dimensions are closely linked with the sea. The famous passage in Book XXI of the Odyssey (388-430) sug- inferior fodder of a kind available in areas of Greece and Italy tive estimate, the total quantity exported in normal years was in Hem tions, one of them being that.Hero was probably justified in he says: I set out on the journey, and was attacked by brigands; I be connected up at any one time. 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