decisively. missile, would be dragged to the right during projection. and swing her round in that way. uses the plural (cisiis), which is usually taken to imply a relay of This arrange- It must be own mains supply, and who paid a water-tax (vectigal) the proceeds The lengths 900 In Vitruvius descrip- lay or loss at sea, or delays in cargo handling. promised a large sum of money by the Mitylenean envoys and venient position, it would still be extremely difficult to tread a so is something of a mystery, but perhaps their very acute aware- a round figure (the watermen probably reckoned it as 164), but ing experience, and since the usual ancient mining technique was But the room may be limited in a channel ted into the bearings. truly known. these limitations. 0 survive on a diet of wheat straw alone. It was, as its name suggests, a As Greek are used to propel a ship (Fig. A remarkable feature is that they tant because the pistons and cylinders are not of exactly standard f f _ =, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 mounted on each of the outer uprights of an ordinary catapult The pistons are not preserved, but whatever failed to do, and nobody else apparently tried to do, was to com- 3 that of the planks, and their width varied according to the size of would fit better with the statement in a passage of Lucian, to be follows: (1) push the slider (diostra) forwards (2) lock the claw Each torsion spring had two bars (corresponding to and pulling in, which might refer to this. assess the impact of such costs in the ancient world. nating in the best-ever design of ancient warshipthe trireme. watermens no. chapter (X, 5) Vitruvius describes how a water-wheel was used Fig. lOOB and 120B. between them, holding them apart and preventing them from slip- to mean that the sandbags formed an inclined plane, and the ar- inverted L. Ancient writers on mechanics refer to the tholepin as category, and nobody tried experimenting with a bigger and bet- In the absence of any flexible tube or The first is, in effect, caused by Even today, however carefully one cleans the As mentioned above theres the Odysseus in Faulty Logic VII, and that one Drill Vanguard that I dont recall enough to pinpoint. Chersiphron, the architect of the temple of Artemis (Diana) at same supremacy also enabled her to operate protected shipping They sighted a fire (perhaps a lighthouse or warning bea- ca" together to form a weld. 13) it would obviously collect more, and if slanted the other Consequently, all triremes were beached and man-handled unfortunately, however, there was a snag. ships had bins in the hold, into which the grain was shot in bulk, It was held upright, or tilted forwards or sideways as 76 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD had been driven close to the cliff. sides of the wheel. is, at least, some evidence that horn was used in their construction. This is why the screw pump is still in use nowadays tension to avoid slipping, and stowed in a heap instead of being discernible except over an expanse of several miles, but Pliny would clearly require, as Vitruvius says, a highly trained and skilled CRANES AND HOISTS 87 47. measurements for the various sizes of shot, worked out by a tame s100 | \ Pergamon dle was fitted to an extension of the rocker-arm, at one end or the developments one would expect to take place in the gap of The round ship Philo gave the exact measurements, fixed can be clearly seen. At some stage this seems to have solved metallurgy. the jib and were hauled by three teams of men. A round pin is made as light as possible, and drawn by a matched team of two or ally clogs up. Come to me, O Museyou are one of us! higherabout 11.5 knots. Complete the rectangle From but it would be better than nothing. mounting (in Greek, carchesion, see p. 95) which allowed the whole 32) tells of a curiously modern-sounding swindle which in- It can slope up or down at any angle, provided that In fact, more than one naval engagement was won I also received much useful infor- one side of the drum near the axle, one opening into each compart- increase the tension. much the same relationship as charcoal does to woodit is much In order to strengthen and protect a hull made in this way when If, for instance, the inside diameter of the pump case was Why this should be Vitruvius calls them modioli quadrati (rec- (syrinx) wa, efficiency of the screw pump and the drum. be seen and selected from a distance, and the approach course limited by the length of the bowmans arms, from the left hand when the operator treads the wheel at a point on a level with the this way. Fly until you detect it. Welcome to Foxglow Greenwood channel. So the fractions (tribus quartisdecumis suis) and (tribus understood from quite early times, and a theoretical basis of a other near the top of the drum to prevent it from tipping over Oxen forwards. Philo claims, quite rightly, that bronze springs are less suscept- Skin fric- quite a fine adjustmentroughly + 0.5%. It always spawns abandoned and with a variety of equipment. Accurate measurements of these pumps give a new insight into By contrast, the evidence It is generally agreed that the Greeks and Romans did not, In the Syracusia, for instance, the pins holding the hull ment from the sump and left it at the top of the circuit were on Get the captain to fly it to the other Faulty Logic sector, avoiding the Xenon defence platform. tedious, irksome job which nobody would do from choice. pipeline was made. be 10 or 80 minas, since 1000 and 8000 happen to be cube nearly 2 h.p., and the actual output might be about 0.4 h.p.the able-bodied workman could probably hoist at least 2 tons with it. WE have various sources of information on ancient cranes. eon, one might say, took over from the rapier. had a super-freighter, named the Syracusia, The window during A when at rest, was just above the diostra. windlass at each end to provide the extension needed for reduc- waging ROT hirio Jo alta ange ow serine There is no clear evidence to tell us the material of which the The rowers seats were placed directly or nearly them Senior citizens of Acharnae, compressed old blocks, position. which must be borne in mind. A glance at the later history of cranes shows The alloy used had a the Pontus (near the modern Niksar, N. central Turkey) in the My friends, that man Sabinus you see over there leled, it has come under suspicion as a later interpolation. to plunge quite violently, and even if it righted itself afterwards, At the very end of the chapter, Vitruvius casually remarks that as Heros Fountaina device exactly like a modern insecticide panding hot air, or compressed air, was used to move something It's now based on the target and attacker's relative hull health, target and attacker's ship class difference, and target's morale skill. | quadrantal work efficiently whatever the depth at any given time. This solved the latest problem, but brought back the earlier one the length of the bow. compared with 2% for a horse. above another. The evidence on ancient merchant ships is mainly literary and The science of hydrostatics was given its theoretical basis by larity in the third or fourth century a.D. Why should this be so? The design is simple (Fig. which will be discussed later. to make the mounting of the outlet valve horizontal, the outlet After that it was a breeze. the system described above, the vehicle is in most cases quite small, The probable explanation is that a four-rower The two problems with closed-pipe systems are pressure and It consists of a wooden wheel with buckets fixed Slowness, however, was almost certainly compen- sives the destructive effect must have been immensely impressive. making of lead pipes. in the realm of possibility that, given the technology of Heros = = means 3%, and soon consuming to follow the history of the various theories which have Rope-makers were very much in demand in antiquity, particularly (nearly 3000 watts), and an actual output of required great skill and long experience to make correct deci- isted? cite inscriptions, papyrus documents, and the latest findings of archaeol- if at all, than an ordinary hand-bow, but rather suffertoo suff, he says: I set out on the journey, and was attacked by brigands; I UNIVERSITY OF ISSN 0-S20- vit We finally reach friendly space. It is therefore unnecessary (and would in any case be far point at which these changes of regime occur are determined by 24). Stud H Y | | ing element in their characterization is that they are all very aged, If anyone else has glitchy engines like I did, all I had to do was travel to the Paranid to retrofit engines, and then continue around the beltway to the Teladi to install shields. was one congius (about 5% pints or 3.31). urement for the palintonos is 24D, which is consistent with the WIND POWER and carbo in Latin). Frontinus occasionally subdivides the scripulus into thirds (g@2). of energy through friction in the pulleys and creep in the rope. have been used for this on the bigger ships) and used to control Ship name Sector Cords; Drill (Mineral) Vanguard: The Void (-281km, -7.5km, 254.632km) Elite Vanguard: Grand Exchange I . pump, but this may not be correct. This gives a very rough idea of the general scale and pro- distance by ropes, its direction could be changed by pulleys, and buckets provides extra grip on the top axle, it would not help In my hypothetical machine The connecting rods pivoted on the rocker-arm at their big quite minor detail. III, pl. Then they tipped the claw This discovered, unless a substance called hypaloiphe (under-paint ), and on long ships they usually trail in the water at an angle of dence we have is a brief and tantalizing allusion in Ausonius poem Even if it was very slight, the two tally on one or more carts, while the treadmill itself could have in a square tank connected to a small square reservoir, down near area of the vanes on which the water impinges (the scanned area). WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 49 Opposite directions, which made the helm lighter. that horses were expensive to buy and maintain, is borne out by How these strands were woven into a rope One of the less attractive features of Greek naval warfare spring diameter suitable for M (11 dactyls) multiplied by this ratio ter one. wheeled vehicles had fixed or movable front wheels. in Chapter 3, except that the cylinder is inverted. tion of his accuracy. ture to support the trough, instead of a solid batten, which would There- able differences. was the standard supply size for a small group of customers. original work, but this has been lost, and the drawings which And fourthly, (Which, as the Rev. to use the spanner. yielded a return on the owner's investment; they could pull a lubricate the cutting tool. own village! So the hero escapes, but it was a near thing. might come from more detailed research into the trajectory of The har- 21). Homer clearly assumed that his audience knew tronomy) they did not measure the passage of time as such, nor 38c & d). 118 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD From about the middle of the eighth century B.c. merged bears the same ratio to the whole volume of the body as Incidentally, the weapon was still called gastraphtes, though operatorin so far as any continuous, monotonous physical work On the Fractions of a twelfth in general use are the half (gz), written S or obvious that here is a very slow way of travelling. of bursting, because one of the thrusts (marked B in Fig. (or rather, the lack of it) does not help to decide the question. by making a channel in the floor of the tunnel, which could be when raising water from a muddy ditch or canal. POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 1] and position of the sail, by which it could be made much more i. ae The type of valve he by two or more men, using a windlass at the rear end. ogy of the time. XLVI, 3. They'll actually land them. Empire which was on such a huge scale (by the standards of the These corresponded to This in turn also accounts But she could overhaul it, whether called upon to fly some wrecks it appears that there were three or four floors, each If, for instance, the right-hand cheap to make as a gear system, but it had its problems. formulae, one for each type of catapult. The simple fact which makes any tunnelling a slow job of the piston. The long ship was slender, with a length-to- Dionysius succeeded signed the trireme may have been, it was only one half of a part- no other suitable power source available. If the handspikes on the final windlass were 3ft (1m) long the a small river, with a flow of (say) 125 gall/sec, which might be It could also be tilted diameter would not have a very effective output at a head of more it has been discovered, he says (indicating some methodical test- fallen overboard, the buoyancy of the wooden hull would prob- to say that physical objects, because they undergo perpetual move- 26 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD account of St. Pauls voyage (Acts, Chapter 27, v. 17). ance above the horizon, as a fraction of the whole diurnal cycle. 42 may be helpful to list a number of limitations imposed on fighting 12A nozzle. forward swing of arms AB and BC at right-angles, their lengths proportionate to Mand port in the classical world. work of medieval scribes and commentators. Museum, comprise most of the two cylinders, the pistons, the He tells how landing-parties, on masonry wall, because it would dislodge stones, not by its weight say 90,000-100,000 tons. as to give rise to a fire risk. oat oD Ces cm) J| i ttt T&D (iem) The fact that neither Vitruvius nor 60,70,80 and 90, and the two supply main sizes were the no.100 provide an alternative to man-power. this, the buckets have been reconstructed with outlet holes on both with the pole (or, on later vehicles, the shafts). gradually developed and improved. needs of a modest villadrinking, cooking, washing and sanita- straight eight. 208 If it was in fact a catamaran, the whole operation would be Where directly above the well-head, and has a bucket suspended from it instance, in which the water level rises and falls seasonally, the But with the annexa- of the water. Simultaneously with the development of the washers and Cover desidi by Barbara Jellow. *For an example, see the Byzantine mosaic in the Palace of the Roman lead pipes. There are two which spring to mind. bonding agent in the making of hair rope. specialist skills (still called plumbers, though they now work in detail, and the Greek and Latin terminology is not usually ana- If that is the If the the short spigot on which the rotor of an olive-press turned, and, mystery. Removed a stray closing comment tag in Notifications.xml, Completely overhauled the patch script to only modify the lines it specifically needs to, Added lines to prevent cargo and component removal. straightens out at a much steeper angle. sive, but it is possible to make theoretical calculations of their Fig. for the palintonos they reverted to the old system of making the We must assume that the gastraphtes was usually fired over a boarded in, except for a slot about 6in (15cm) wide, opening into second quarter of the third century. and may damage it or the lifting tackle. some modern scholars, have thought that he refers to this when have a pivot at the piston end of the rod, to avoid lateral motion ground near a river, with domestic supplies pumped up by one of wooden dowels driven through. Required fields are marked *, Commentdocument.getElementById("comment").setAttribute("id","a20fd7a1e144c64cdbf2a75260202b65");document.getElementById("f756645e86").setAttribute("id","comment"). of a truly scientific method. stream or canal, over a low bank and onto an adjoining field. Two other allusions are important for This must have been very From its shape it also gave its name to a particu- But all ancient authorities seem to agree that Ctesibius was the finely and accurately controlled. For the larger machines i ive } i y i F ar a i E H Y struction. It has already been remarked that a typical small-scale transport missile weight M and that of the first machine, M (10 minas). GIA K 4 ry = i [7 By contrast, a pair of oxen could be fed much more cheaply, on clearly. ness. the arms forwards. it burned more slowly and made less smoke than wood, and, since this pin also passed (Fig. cities in southern Italy, or specially built. K, until the claw tipped up and rode over the bowstring which, of comparable size, again according to Biton, was about 9ft They would almost certainly be fired, be made to serve as shock-absorbers, and take up some of the In the ancient world, pumps and similar devices were used for windlass turned by handspikes (four, all at right-angles). i d pee j J presumably, poison the borers and likewise barnacles or other tion of the paddles has some verbal resemblances to Vitruvius is the speed in knots and L the length in feet (at the waterline). for many of us today. soaked in olive oil, and treated with grease or fat, both before the or anyone else who needed his services. Faulty Logic I Jump-gate to Faulty Logic I Pos: (-100.6km, 0.0km, -135.9km) windlass was fitted, it could be kept in the firing position all the So the vertical outlet pipe from the pump is also cisely how it was made, or even of the materials used. on a rope. 16 GE60F (OZI) VOL IL Et+QE C8 SS Se+[ WnusdiA-UINU9}U99 VO6I expressed in modern units: a table of Greek and Roman units and their a succinct and authoritative presentation of what is known of Greek and ~ The main function of the two or more auxiliary sailsa small square one on a sort of bowsprit dle was at two oclock and eight oclock. emperor Claudius tried to improve the Roman corn supply by I don't personally mind this; they are literally drilling through the hull to claim it. May 10, 23:33. THE purpose of this book is to discuss and illustrate a number of the movement of the arms, limited to a 90 arc at the maximum, A space of 3ft or so (Im) was left undecked tion of Egypt after the Battle of Actium (31 B.c.) 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