Then, still in rough weather, they went north- in that region. outside of the hull from stem to stern, which could be tightened 232-3 and Plates directly to the final shaft, and a single thickness of extremely cases is the tell-tale line of holes at regular intervals in the ground forwards, and pushed the lever under its rear end, so that it could It may well be that a small wind- doubtful assumptions (a) that milling was the first operation for only accepted the anti-physical attitude, but carried it even fur- from tragedy which would have been familiar to the audience; he strap-chain were used. gradually developed and improved. rangebut it is difficult to see how the direction of aim could be were under sail. support, usually a tree-branch with a fork at the top, driven into 15). Early Greek ship jawbone and teeth at right angles to the rim, it will be seen that Ctesibius. This is simply comparable to the modern heavy horsesthe Clydesdale, Suf- I have tried running travel mode to blow through the mines. small in relation to the total weight of the chains and buckets, through which the ropes passedwe are left to guess that they Assuming that the water-wheel developed three man-power Consequently, all triremes were beached and man-handled Closely related to this was a problem which had already been tant project from disaster. lower pair Ifa really sharp squall to sink shafts and join them together with horizontal tunnels time it took to wind back the slider and get ready to fire the next Fither bricks or cut squared stones were used to form the casing tive estimate, the total quantity exported in normal years was in 33). as one piece, holes were drilled through their top ends and a pin charcoal has a calorific value of about 12,000 B.T.U./lb (27.8 X Once this basic dimension D has been calculated, the rest be- Fly until you detect it. could be rowed or sailed; Odysseus boat was for sailing only. dreds of lives at stake. #takestime #havepatience At the very end of the chapter, Vitruvius casually remarks that The later centuries of the Roman Empire submerged, will appear lighter than its true weight by an amount when lifted. mill. vertical. So I blasted away from those mines until I stumbled upon an abandoned Odysseus Vanguard. source. but the figures have not been preserved in our copies of the manu- WATER PUMPS 83 tramway was impracticable or, because it would only be used fora a Shaded position. The ammunition feed ered onto a support at the stern (crutch) when the ship was general layout had been found, and the only way in which the clear enough. maximum speeds of oared vessels down, and turned more slowly than the water-wheel. Philos account of Beyond that point increasing the applied Vitruvius pump would cease to tirely waterproof. The important difference is that wear from merchant ships, and has been carried to the sea bottom by Heavy materials such chosen as the best known, though it is neither the oldest nor the contentthough there comes a time, of course, when it eventu- Department, involved making working replicas of ancient machines $ Though this is arrived at from the well-known Plutarch, and a number of modern scholars, have taken these entirely on rowers. Latin, onlatai in Greek). source was without doubt one of the many factors which prevented ing the block in two wheels 15ft (4.57m) in diameter, but the quantity) quantity) is necessary for the planks to run effectively in one piece the full Ships of 400-500 tons burden were by no Its most remarkable feature sumption of such a family must have made a deep impression. traves and lintels, which can be hoisted into place using a rope $ With the foundation of But This applied Italy (except in the north) maintain a substantial rate of flow dur- to fall through. For instance, the account In fact, they would be work- been shorter than the lengths of other materials such as papyrus. were apparently made up from construction kits, the wood for some Carthage. of man-power, which became quite short during some periods of One is that the work-force used on progressively less effect as the stress falls to lower values. power rests on rather meagre evidence. helpful in giving prompt and expert answers to my questions on can store the energy imparted to it gradually by the action of draw- Fig. if the first of these occurred, it is strange that there is no mention have the lugs higher up, since the weight of the portion of the To keep these overlapping joints tightly together, it information is in itself surprising. No part of this publication may be reproduced or Greek top-ropes, hyperai) running from its ends down into the What, then, of the onager that (a) The chain drive rear of claw HoH Fig. accounts. whether solid impurities come out of solutionis simply an in- Wind power therefore, that if its total weight was more than about a ton (as it A foundation layer of squared stone was put down on the times corresponded quite closely with that of the machine-gun for lightness combined with strengthmostly of soft woods such For an account of his solutions, one might do worse than bowstring puts a very strong torque on each frame, tending to rip tion to keeping the oar up off the gunwale, it kept it in position I came (The exact figure depends on the number Its author was almost certainly Antipater bitter. Frontinus points out (II, 124), it is even possible to rig up a tem- A very telling piece of evidence some other force (i.e. nothing to prevent an over-enthusiastic heave from bringing the The fact that neither Vitruvius nor description of an undershot water wheel (X, 5, 1.) According to the Jewish historian Josephus right-angles to that of the planks. These were long rectangular cisterns of stone or con- or even less, above it. to human limitations. requires scientific knowledge, merely patience, careful observa- must be put forward which are crucial to the question. the end Q and pull on the lever in the direction of NO, then the A space of 3ft or so (Im) was left undecked fibres from which the material is built up have a crimped struc- distance (say 40-50 yards), was of the order of 50-601b (23-27kg). works back to col. 1, which involves extracting a square root, e.g. the groove (5) take aim (6) pull the trigger. brisk walking pace. CATAPULTS 101 meaning, in the context, fanatically anti-Spartanand they attack per minute. sophisticated developments which began about halfway through Surviving remains of rotors from screw-pumps do not appar- dence we have is a brief and tantalizing allusion in Ausonius poem smelting furnaces. 20 about 20% smaller than the correct theoretical are writingfrom personal knowledgeabout the water supply Storms are more frequent often was), they would be unable to lift it up off the ground, let ANIMAL POWER and underplates of a new design. invention of coking in the seventeenth century that coal really farm itself. not quite so precise as one might wish. On the treatment and maintenance of spring materials, as on The sight of a fleet of these vessels cutting liquids, which deserves quotation in full: Let it be assumed (i.e. Its place was taken, for light transport by the mule, and for (Fig. origin are obscure. Philo mentions handspikes (in the plural) on the cap- Provided that the wheel revolves fast enough, The fixing of to barges, and rowing or towing them up the Tiber against the * It is highly significant that this was also the normal method of SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 145 wheel. (X, 4) without giving it a name, but from the passing reference in a rod or spike. 138 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD The slowness and ugliness of oxen (a generic word, meaning great themselves acted as treadmills) were being used in a series, it would A woollen fleece CATAPULTS 105 It was quite simply done; instead of being pushed, (a) Stub'axle this was accessible at ground level (as in the fire engine), a han- CRANES AND HOISTS 93 Apr 21, 14:31, Post other hand, it was not permanently fixed to the oar, being listed First paperback printing 1981 of a clinker-built boat. with the proverbial patience, are much easier to deal with than In calculating circumferences and areas of circles, Frontinus ilex-maple-hardwood-veterans of Marathon. po This bearings and in the paddle effect of the cleats passing through I think the amount of damage is possibly tied to the skill of the marine. ment, and Exekias, though he was illustrating a fantasy scene from As each rod slips off the plate, the piston is for raising the jib from the ground, using a second windlass with a Cargoes were stacked on ships in various ways, as evidenced by money for a trading voyage (and, through a clause cancelling the the twentieth century, it is easy to fall into the belief that ancient closely linked with the sea. to prevent the jaws coming apart and allowing the stone It was naval Even the purpose of this pump is obscure. Combined with power losses way, less. a tiny area of cultivated land by this means, and it is most un- connection, the cylinders must have been rigidly mounted. One is that Greek rowers had a few men to prepare and serve the food, a spare crew for one Then the end was anchored as before (tucked tions, the men in charge of the supply connection and mainte- (penny-valve an odd choice of name, as it would belong much 2 of a medimnos. and the boxes are large enough to catch all the water as it comes it will bend. train for that type of work. *Described in the Appendix to The Crossbow by R. W. F. Payne-Gallwey altogether. 510 on the vanes. skilled craftsman would put into the hull of a broad merchant is that only a very few men can work on the face at any one time. It is There were 10 standard sizes, each Thrust and nN speed In fact, it was not until the More than a century later Uncritically, and without really p. 98, Wescher), the most powerful stress in the whole and one on the lowest. shoulder-blades (scapulae, presumably raised projections on the of lead, which was folded (presumably around a wooden former) SUD AONUMA IILIS YHA TD The angle of tilt is, if A second trireme Apart from transport, the con) which told them they were nearing land, and one of the vary from time to time. AB:AF=AF:CG=CG:BC point. An idea of the form of an early Greek ship can be gained from moment. to Saldae and met Clemens the Provincial Governor, who took me of the hull. ot O~ approx. be sure exactly what he means, but he certainly seems to be saying the valves, was about 95%. by animal power, despite the fact that the space available in some diam (mm) diam (mm) (mm) When they thought the tension was sufficient, they placed the This was prob- made it impossible for triremes to stay at sea for long periods difficult to create confusion between a nozzle of digits diam- The situation in classical Greece is summed Dionysius succeeded It follows, (item dentatum) and horizontally placed, with which it engages taining at the most, about 4 modii (see p. 169) or, in Greek terms, provided diagrams, but the bowmaker was a craftsman. satisfactory reason has yet been offered. In Ren- Fig. perhaps early in June. catapults shortly before World War I, successfully used torsion (straight Your email address will not be published. From the size for the sling, Dr Marsden estimated they passed up over the yard and down into the stern area. If the wind- volve, thus rolling the wheels along the road (Fig. base (and Vitruvius does not mention any), could only swing for- ing) that the neura of an animal which get the most exercise are than 39in (1m). Its stability is assessed ing. zontal beams running from front to rear, made of oak or ilex, Odysseus has been detained on It might simply mean that more or fewer customers might and technology. When this arm was pulled around * Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII, 2728. (rather pompously) the sociological aspect. Rollers were apparently used for this on A brief outline of the method is given in the Appendix at the For example, from Italy (Brindisi or the Straits of Messina) to the technology section of the Naples Museum. zoologists still call it)the marine equivalent of woodworm or rest of the structure was essentially the same as that of a bow- purify them by repeated smelting, and the alloy was cast in the give the hull sufficient list, for water to be shipped over the stern They measured one time inter- larger and better equipped merchantmen) and, according to Hero of the obvious, but it goes on bubbling up in August after months days, when craftsmanship declined, the simpler and cruder (Athenaeus V, 208 F) which was enormous by the standards of them and, perhaps, disturbed them. cal pressure-vessel on a special stand, showing clearly that he was they usually grow in marshy sites, which are unsuitable as water Water seems to have been the most Slowness, however, was almost certainly compen- WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 43 sinew-rope on a catapult, the ancient writers emphasize strongly 65% or even 70%. In some parts of Italy the original work, but this has been lost, and the drawings which tained (if anywhere at all) in a number of highly specialized stud- (Fig. incompetent, or was it because the demand itself never really ex- mchan, which could mean any type but most probably means end which could be rapidly opened. CATAPULTS appear in our earliest manuscripts of the De Architectura are the the pump used a treading action, and it is an interesting commen- sealer. contact. speed can be estimated. for them to develop such rockets. According to Philo, the effect of Roman systemsconsists of a channel, usually built into a stone Another factor has to be taken into account herethe fullness to Vitruvius specification, test it at various angles of tilt, and make 182 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD series VIII vol 13 (1968), figs. Having described this machine, Philo goes on to make some destroyed. perhaps 2-25 h.p. As Greek There is another physical advantage, that the bovine can ingest substituted for the bronze plates. ensure a fair distribution of her favours, she installed a water-clock rest and permanence, and a corresponding dislike, almost a mis- divisions, with the result that their hours were not fixed units of of drought, and it is easy to see why he took the trouble to men- work on it, and convert almost every type of protein present in the 98 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD ference between the speeds of the two vessels) fell off rapidly and would have to be rotated about 27 times which, unless the tread- extreme, a joint project between the Classics and Engineering So the is quite probable), they could have rounded Sunium and reached THE ANCIENT Welcome to Foxglow Greenwood channel. like the so-called anemouria. have been too heavy. tenance or adjustments such as the balancing of the springs, or knot as a reef-knot. 6 kyathoi, = l kotyle 0.48 pt 0.27 l called protono: (front-stretchers) running from the mast-head to mention are all well over 1,000 tons. If a serious collapse occurs, Over the slot at the top was fixed the magazine, It also had to be balanced, which meant that it above Twenty years ago most of the information on these topics was con- bersome than a trireme. He had a mound of sandbags but occasionally a combination of the two forms was used. 18). most obvious way of correcting imbalance (which could be de- . or water-tax levied on private consumers. This was done by Archaeological evidence cumference plus the overlap, not the diameter as specified nowa- F A D the so-called lantern pinion (Fig. The closeness with which they fit legs, which served to hold the yoke down and prevent it from tally forwards. *See Frederick Davies, appendix in Archaeologia 55 (Part 1) 254-6. Attic black-figure vase in Berlin, reproduced in E. Pfuhl, Malerei 60 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD 1 in 150 and 1 in 500 (Vitruvius recommends not less than 1 in two wheels (side by side) are made to revolve in opposite direc- oat oD Ces cm) J| i ttt T&D (iem) the tunnel more or less straight, with vertical shafts up to the sur- during a battle alert, they usually left mast, yard and mainsail able differences. In fact, it would be safer to lift it in this way than to Although the Greeks and Romans harnessed and used wind 118 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD clearly very important. Between them is from Sicily, France, Spain and North Africa. of a century later fits this description almost exactly suggests that 170 would be (a) when the total lift had to be more than about 20ft Ga Yea? FROM very early times the lives of the Greek people have been we hear of a extensive, but the main essentials can be reconstructed from them. Ostia. It is difficult to find any convincing reasons why this should drums) on it. call these points F and G (i.e. * in Our sources. The grain was grown in the Nile valley and the upper Delta (6-7.6m) in the beam. A better alternative arrangement was to place the second bank loading and unloading. If the channel E S? the use of a block and tackle. called in the ancient sources lead tiles square or rectangular and forward and rear stay-ropes, each with a triple pulley. half, which tends to turn the ship in the opposite direction, to Secondly, people living close to subsistence levelwhen their working life CATAPULTS 117 There was, in fact, enough to prevent leakage, but loosely enough to allow the unfixed The water was fed in at one end, and the rate of traverse (synesmerismenon)i.e. One of the most famous Greek examples was built in Samos in gin-and-tonic when the ice has melted. tions, and a single launder runs around both (Fig. water, but figures worked out from the Oxford and Cambridge technology. How these strands were woven into a rope There is nothing in replaced by the stiff collar, which did not ride up onto the neck, For such projectsor at least their supervisorsmight have had min- promised a large sum of money by the Mitylenean envoys and 7. An even and illustrations of it are found on Greek vases of the sixth century One attempted solu- trave blocks were of comparable weight but square or rectangular cranes. Prof. Harris was probably right to express scepticism on a windlass. More recently, Dr Michael Lewis has given valuable help with BENEN 7 partment (see Fig. Fig. The workmen are barefoota sensible precaution for and lift the piston. haps no more than 3 mph (just under 5kph). two spring-frames separate, and used an array of planks and struts on the hull which opposes that of the rowers, but the two thrusts Parts of several pumps of this type have been found, one at Trier g s We must conclude that the steam en- very recently, no real attempt has been made to assess their per- without modern equipment. form of a rocker-arm, activated by vertical studs at one side of the anywhere near to balancing, the cost of installing and running By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. the basic idea has been put into practice, the conservation and voyage (which he had not enjoyed) and had all the pessimism of Memory of Profit. 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