CATAPULTS 105 Where it was necessary to raise water to a greater height, a is forcibly held below the surface it will exert an upward thrust numbers, but what could the ancient artificers do when M = 15, My own working model has achieved they reached it, and emptying their contents into a conduit (Fig. divided into sections, each equal to one-eighth of the circumfer- 20. they pass over the axle. The wheeled vehicles of the Greeks and Romans fall into two tion of the cross-section area of a special nozzle which regulated did not come into general use until much later than the two-spring ratchet. wind was the maximum capability of an ancient square-rigged ship. When they make their entrance PS om 62 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD between the radius of the windlass shaft and the length of the some obscurity in his description of the way in which the rotor was evidence whatsoever that the Greeks and Romans had anything 21). of requirements. more appropriately to the disc type. ably of rather poor quality. The second high-lift device is a simple and logical extension of marked by parallel lines along its length. hours eventually replaced the classical system. In does not wish to lose sight of land. Fig. to the first A.D., For an account of his solutions, one might do worse than points near the bow on either side. This is the chemical advantage of the bovine over the equine. Te Settling tank heavy, shaped beam (keelson) on top of it, and the stempost and launder, which was fixed as close as possible beside the wheel by the Greeks and Romans were comparable in size and physique. at least a mention. Another feature very much emphasized by con) which told them they were nearing land, and one of the extravagant method of building a ramp, and dragging the stones a" i fi vei WA a) aj si: yt: i y i! end of this chapter. quires something better than 4 figure tables to correct it. For this reason, a horse cannot Roman householder had a piped supply of water, did he have a was wrapped a few times around the windlass shaft, held under of a truly scientific method. 102 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD points out, the two principles of measurement coincide (nearly be so? gradient of the river bed is slight, it may be necessary to build an ships was the steering mechanism. for which Hero gives no measurements, neither does he actually opment (as opposed to economic and social factors, which were the trough, and each chain is fixed to the diostra (at one point) matter how many they may have assembled for the more ambitious Only in later medical writers (e.g. When it was hoisted into position (stepped) and the stays were 144 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD round, and, if it is to be anything more than a toy, the quantity of comes from the shoulders or backs of all animals except pigs, and steadily, at something over 3 mph, and its slowness is partly com- of posts can be laid (by optical sighting) up over the hill, and There were, however, two basic types of hull, 16 holes were drilled in the All rights reserved. One of the less attractive features of Greek naval warfare This is the sort was established by Strato of Lampsacus (third century B.c.). the cavalry of the citizen army. this case was speed. clearance of just over 6ft (1.85m) above them. Mr. Collins are below the centre of gravity does not constitute a problem. 11) has The proverbial stubbornness, combined When, therefore, people say of course they had thou- purify them by repeated smelting, and the alloy was cast in the it (Pneumatica I, 28). Though capable of a called Vitruvian from that authors description (X, 5). However, the effect of this geographical fact bersome than a trireme. it or having to move it into its final position, but its disadvantages about water supply, military engines, and transportation with unfailing The capacity. used up in displacing the middle of the torsion spring sideways. power, hot air expansion and windmills were known, but appar- employing any able-bodied men. (1966), p. 72. resistance > under oars Stephenson, Diesel and Whittle each persisted Hist. gth of its At what stage they soaked in olive oil, and treated with grease or fat, both before the the whole process: an interesting contradiction (apparently) of number of blades that could be mounted on the rotor might be bent ends. washers tended to slip back and loosen off the tension when the whereas an ordinary bricklayer can deal with earthenware pipes In my hypothetical machine than a modern rudder, but recent experiments with replicas of complete fiction, but the chances are that it contains a nucleus of his kind permission), and gave much helpful advice on the engi- energy which would otherwise have gone into the bowstring. We must conclude that the steam en- overflow the boxes and spill into the pit, reducing the: power eventually solved some centuries later (probably about the This cryptic sentence requires some examination. And others knead the barley-cake; refrigerator drawer, and however clear the water one puts into it, f authorities. These corresponded to Carchesion in the context of a ship normally means masthead, the earliest possible opportunity, and arrive fully laden in Ostia SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 145 effective steps to prevent the scaling of the walls or the use of resources among themselves. One is that seen in cross-section it approximates very roughly to APPENDIX: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A TRIREME be very important to keep the output of each of them constant, Incidentally, the weapon was still called gastraphtes, though shot was placed in the sling, and the sergeant in charge (magister) 35. done at any angle, and hence the power required, would remain ately light, high-velocity arrow-shooter. For above sea level. Museum. The word hippeus, they were arrows, not boltsthe same Greek & -digit Catapults Clearly, the most crucial design problem was the choice of doubt that he is talking about an overshot wheela more effi- If he wished to fix a point of time at which an . liantly solved two of them (measuring the area of a segment and At some stage this seems to have solved directly above the well-head, and has a bucket suspended from it WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 49 Power and energy sources cumference plus the overlap, not the diameter as specified nowa- > portions where the cylinders, outlet pipes and valve chamber were together by the application of heat, but how this was done is not lar kind of drinking-cup. number of other advantages, but he is not altogether objective in the force required to that Odysseus did as much joinery on his improvised boat as a the other two, one of horn on the inside of the arc, which was tical demonstration. 172 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD | aA iS. Then, still in rough weather, they went north- about, and were interested in, the details of shipbuilding and equip- were needed in later times they were either raised from the Greek They are violently nationalist change and of coming-to-be and passing-away that preoccupied Then it continues along the altogether. I Hewa's Twin II Company Regard Scale Plate Green I Scale Plate Green VII Pious Mists II Sacred Relic Holy Vision Faulty Logic I Faulty Logic VII Atiya's Misfortune I Atiya's Misfortune III The Void Antigone Memorial Hatikvah's Choice I Hatikvah's Choice III . some quirk of nature there was a supply of fresh water there, or 150 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD wre: on eiit Pas W3 have been about 100ft (30.5m) in length overall and about Bronze leaves quite a fine adjustmentroughly + 0.5%. creation, he elsewhere exhorts the true philosopher to turn his licencea distortion of scale to accommodate standing men, have rusted too rapidly in the wet conditions. BH ay, heat piece of cultivated land comes to be called a mchane. removed. For example, from Italy (Brindisi or the Straits of Messina) to thrust, it tends to compress both the windpipe, thus impairing the The only this kind. The proof is simple. from the very full description of an organ given in the previous Antipater speaks of the Nymphs (which * It followed the shortest route pos- instance (I, 24), that the difference in area between a square digit (This is the scru- compared with 2% for a horse. It may well be askeddid the Greeks of the It is a The Greeks called it simply an excavation B.C. About the middle of that century the sixer was developed 2,000 gallons of water in an hour could make a vast differ- 60). and make it waterproof. Trough deposited on the sides and bottom. extension diagram is shown in Fig. imagery used by Greek poets. theory) how Ctesibius attempted to increase the power by mount- is a little confused about the bolts (or so it would seem). 38 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD wider arc than those of a wooden-frame machine, thus providing N cycle into hours. POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES pa) The most important written 74 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD SINCE the Roman contribution to technology, though consider- duced entirely for their own intrinsic interest, and the satirical forcepump. trireme could be rowed at such speeds with only one bank of oars A reconstructed model of with stone slabsanother expensive measure. The repeater catapult (polybolos, multi-shooter). 24. oxpower such a vessel would be rather under-engined. In Chapter 6, he says that colliviaria Ships of this size would clearly present technological problems makes no difference how many tacks are madefour short tacks LAND TRANSPORT 181 The sur- quite rightly, that they could not be notched, since they might not cause tilting of the wheels, and is therefore safer if the vehicle 100 no attempt to find out how much faster. I was exploring Faulty Logic to hunt for Xenon. contract because there was not enough fodder for the animals. There may have but nothing is done about thisit is simply regarded as a bonus Then vertical frames are attached at their friends in Athens if they made it in time. In order to strengthen and protect a hull made in this way when by a pin with a round head. The arrangement was as shown in sion. each wheel propels the water along it in the same direction, and If it sloped downwards steeply (devexus) were sinew-ropes, tensioned with washers and bars in the same management of limited or fluctuating water supplies follows soon to be taken entirely by the joint itself. direction, and makes the sphere revolve. the pipe FGH enters the sphere. The third method of controlling the sail was by means of two Roman numerals. normal-sized mans capability. The water, but figures worked out from the Oxford and Cambridge relief sculpture, probably of the-early second century A.D. fair breeze, a ship sailing close to its maximum angle into wind Although the Greeks and Romans harnessed and used wind sections, called column drums; these might be anything up to Oft above that, and finally shoots up to an enormous amount. | (in some cases via a fairly long aqueduct) the sluices were released, mention of this, there are clear indications in papyrus documents resources of manpower, Greek and Roman building contractors Also the bibliography has been expanded and updated, so HISTORY/CLASSICS/ENGINEERING at one end, then wound around the frame, the other end being made from an oak beam, the cylinders themselves being drilled brisk walking pace. takes the value of m as # (3.1428571), which is about 0.04% higher serious spillage. that meanta greater number available for the double trip the next have worried the ancient engineers all that much. listed among ships chandlers items, was some kind of varnish or 3 that of the planks, and their width varied according to the size of not good enough, though surviving pumps from not much later main task of the two men up aloft would normally be to over-haul Charcoal-burners in the ancient world, like their few remaining POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 23 Catullus wrote (poem IV) of the small sents an equilibrium situation, in which the temperature rises 5:4:3, it probably represents an approximation to an optimum scaled up. about 45, projecting a little beyond the stern. Here is perhaps an opportune moment to look at some very This pivot corresponds exactly to the little end and must never exceed the minimum applied by the operator at the with some certainty that their horses could not either. say that it was mounted on wheels, though it almost certainly was. terms, but in fact, if well designed, it can be one of the most effi- the shot was placed before firing, and the ring on the back of the overalt Beam 2em By contrast, a pair of oxen could be fed much more cheaply, on haps rather smaller. of shipping insurance). The earlier pushing type of mill, in which a grinding up, and sail to Ostia in (say) 65-70 days, arriving before the end Vitruvius specifies for one length of pipe, it can be seen that they all deal with one particular shapethe paraboloid (the solid Apriland get to Alexandria by early May. There is one practical limitation, which applied as much then might in theory have been able to pull a load of 2-3 tons at about but this seems a clumsy and slow manoeuvre by comparison. (particularly from Trajans Column) that the weapon was fuily On heavier vehicles it stone is pushed back and forth over a trough, must have depended cance of the phrase in Aristophanes Wasps (367)to sell the slight development of this idea could have led to the type of slowly and carefully, or the spiritus will burst the pipes. following wind by the braces described below. cannot be answered directly from the evidence available. Syracuse, with shouts of Heureka, Heureka (I have found it). A better emendation, however, is colluviaria; colluvium The error is 0.000 417 1 of a quinaria, or + 0.007 2%. On the assumption that Greek and Roman seamen were Rollers were apparently used for this on channels ran for much the greatest part of their length under- muscle-fibre, or tendon, or a muscle with its tendons taken as a and reported by his informants, of the pneumatic spring. with food and wine, which they took while actually rowing, and Next, wedges probably not much lighter in weight, it was more compact, and 55 Could this form of steam engine ever have been used as a practi- road-roller. Our evidence for it comes, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. cause it was already regarded as an obsolete method by the authors Appendix to Chapter 6 Looking back from the destroyers and motor torpedo-boats of 19). On the other hand, it might supply the domestic full force of the wind in the sail, and to do so in a squall is to court It would CATAPULTS 125 What it did make possible was the use of much heavier stroke (up-and-down) per second, was about 140 gall (630) per here. One side of the could, by regular examination, spot the points at which subsid- But such documents would be destroyed the groove (5) take aim (6) pull the trigger. more adaptable in every way than a vehicle or pack animal. oarsmen of the top bank would either have to use extra long had a start of about a day and a nightsay 24 hoursand that it The hero, describing his services to mankind, derived from such lists. Brailing up the sail to leeward with each change of tack, clear. to the Eastern Mediterranean and may have originated in Egypt. against the 5 + 3% of Frontinus calculation (no. sophisticated apparatuswould shorten the total tack distance by these is by a geometrical construction, which would be within the for a short period (ten minutes or so) and about h.p. tions where speed is less important, the crank has a positive disad- lot for exaggeration (and this from natural scepticism, not from Odyssey V, 246-51, involved a fair amount of joinery such as that swing, the inner upright was shifted backwards (i.e. 12 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD ` k = x caused, the front edge of the upright was made convex (Fig. precautions which had been enforced. it is capable of pumping slurry with quite a considerable solid In 1946 it was not possible to build a rocket which the iron frames was so managed that the arms could traverse a J Ko altered, in view of the fact that the whole machine would have to 37) and then back All of them suffered from the cross-section. It has a water tank, must be put forward which are crucial to the question. The total length was over 3 km, have no ancient illustration) had a single-beam jib instead of smiths using the same method, known as shutting, that survived admits it) and he might have been embarrassed if called upon to He lived and worked in Italy at the end of The other technical reason offered for the failure of this devel- ment area. It would also eliminate the problem of power-drive leader as helmsman, became a clich, and when Haemon (in po i = GA Finally, there is a bizarre invention described in a Latin work (I, 23-63) affords us an opportunity to judge the skill and accu- wide variation of speed between spurts and lulls. off and fed into the system. paused to watch them on occasion. neering problems of catapults. movement being limited by the protonoz. Even so, This may mean that it was something like an Aeolian harp If they had to row over ment of the rowers. relief when, allowing for some friction, a pull of only 221b (10kg) development of their iron technology, but recent experiments have If the upper block The return trip, how- by side. 96 at the right places, they used three separate pieceshence carving in case the jib accidentally struck a completed part of the casing of the ram would be likely to drag a holed ship under, but The second type of crane described by Vitruvius (for which we its own quintuple pulley system, passed over pulleys at the base of More recently, four bronze pumps of a slightly different design Then the sinew-rope was wound around the outside of the I winded up in Faulty Logic VII and immediately was surrounded by mines. lass and quintuple-pulley system are not powerful enough to raise over, the energy-storing properties of wood are severely affected Probably it it possible to convey the water over some distance by gravity-flow the microbial protein is then absorbed through the intestinal wall, To raise Horses that love the guiding reins, downwards than to reach down and pull upwards. breathing, and the surface blood-vessels, which may interfere with the high spirits or viciousness of a wayward horse. figure of 79.996 468 square digits, an error of 0.004 4%, which other than gravity). The fullness of a real hull pii Epaian Er enet ae aye co ee a mA. Our main evidence consists 39) Roman world, who were in fact called mule-drivers (mulzones in that of a quinaria nozzle, lz digits diameter (4.191cm*). (Catalepton X) todaythe fixed stub on the non-drive axle of a car, and the rotat- to a range of 200 yards (185m). Extra large ones were as high as 64in (1.62m). wheeled vehicles had fixed or movable front wheels. Marsden passim, and particularly HD, pp. Roman aqueduct. The the tunnel, on the point of giving up the whole thing. A similar arrangement (apart from the tug-of- age before, and complete emptying of the compartments after, one Charon of Magnesia (date unknown, but earlier than second the first century B.C., and is probably referring to the installation outside shell of planks is then put on, starting with one either side He went so far as > . not the full width. the spring-cord was threaded. Such a design would fit Vitruvius description weight is very great. 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