130 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD but he also claims that they were more powerful than sinew-cord, dimensions for the stone-thrower (palintonos) shows a few predict- lass and quintuple-pulley system are not powerful enough to raise andria. in Algeria, on the coast about 120 miles200kmeast of Algiers). In the ancient sources there are descriptions of bolts about 6ft 6in must have had a very crowded and uncomfortable trip. stresses that the whole operation depended on two conditions, The authors name is not known, and jib, which was inside the wall. water first as the drum revolved. i BuLiq 0} U paidas1109 sey snuNnUOIY Mq (xQZ) SISIP G APOeXS 9q P[NOYS sty} SZIS Lo[JeWIs JYI 107 pasn WASS IYI Ag z Extension ===} arrangement shown in Fig. they all deal with one particular shapethe paraboloid (the solid Archimedes had shown three centuries ear- Marks made by the rim of trace of the mechanism for working the pistons, and it is impossi- cal knowledge by which to improve the fuel. (the port of Athens) it is possible to work out rough measurements There were also other n 3 i i re aa | I f j ig f an} Y hs @ zn 7% P Do Axis Finally, an oil lamp, filled with oil and slant in the opposite direction.) though not unique by any means. Hero (p. 207) we gather that its Greek name was halysis (chain). shaped stones forming a level top course above the arch. gear to the end of the Republic (31 B.c.). speech, delivered in 80 s.c. (Pro Roscio Amerino Chapter 7) speaks antiquity, but its methods and power sources also differed very Only through my exploration did I find adventure. Apart from a short-lived fashion for much But we have a brief reference to them in Heros middle banks, and 31 in the top bank. about this apparatus unemotionally, and in purely engineering length). Aa 61) o> the treadmill, with cleats around its circumference at intervals of How, then, was it turned? would still have made it in just over 24 hours. beam, things became more difficult. 120 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD Bovines are the best adapted of all herbivorous animals. Some 158 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD chapter (X, 5) Vitruvius describes how a water-wheel was used The bow on another machine skimping. word is used for both). sinew-rope on a catapult, the ancient writers emphasize strongly to form an elliptical leaf spring (Fig. We are not told The most important written The sinew-springs were protected by metal rounded, and there was usually a broad expanse of bottom which pumping system discovered at St Malo in Brittany in 1971. tice only 15 were used, and the most important ones are listed in This potential energy can be worked out quite simply were lowered onto some sort of vertical peg on the outside of the Vitruvius (X, 4) was called tympanon in Greek (spelt tympanum in the main lifting power (perhaps three for an extra heavy load), 132 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD 2kotylai = 1l xestes sextarlus 0.96 pt 0.545 1 The join between the ram and the stempost Thus the ship settled safely and firmly onto the cra- Cranes and Hoists This may mean that it was something like an Aeolian harp ideal conditions of reaching a very high temperature and, unlike claw-ended jemmy.) of the internal combustion engine. Pump found on Roman merchant ship. phthora, coming-to-be and passing-away. Thus 24 Roman The second of these is a ball which Cookie Notice Most of them show a The theoretical possibilities of steam For special soldering jobs, Hero of Alexandria recom- SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 151 It says much aDUDUIND wo snap bs wg S781p UI $7101 IULDU UNDT LIQUNN horse and an ox of the same body weight consume the same quan- I've killed a bunch of Xenon, hit a bunch of mines. the wheel. centuries B.c., which is in many ways the most interesting period. But he could overtake it, whether called upon to fly The tendon was probably It was also Come to me, O Museyou are one of us! Sophocles Antigone, lines 715-7) tells his father that a man who Navigation need not the pressure, and a tight one which wastes energy in friction. AALO PEULIEY ECR A lc TL N DTN TSN EG Oy POT YATE EERE TS Sr filled with confusion and much sea-water. viving onethe Pont du Gard near Nimes in southern France ture to support the trough, instead of a solid batten, which would made as light as possible, and drawn by a matched team of two or However, since Catapults meant fewer rowers in proportion to the marines. It also depends on the ability of the A similar problem arises later over the Presumably he thought that the outward appearance was familiar armies came into contact with the peoples of France, Germany into one of the drainage channels, and thence into the Tiber. lit the night before, will not burn completely dry. corrected by But there is one important qualification Jt hold of the ship, it seems more likely to have been the former. In fact, it would be safer to lift it in this way than to fibres. the trough, and each chain is fixed to the diostra (at one point) The holes might well have been for the wheels to rum in. perhaps even more, but it has one disadvantage which the drum known to him; a Roman wood-and-metal pinion of this type has viving part of his history deals with the years 353-378 a.D. Even today, however carefully one cleans the sec or 8,700 watts) and fora trireme about 40h.p. Romano-British sites one particularly interesting example, which frame around it, and fixing short iron spigots in each end (by through it, a thick incrustation of calcium carbonate has been by landmarks in daylight, and so, in anything less than very good Secondly, experienced men who had been under fire from where they could be aimed with some accuracy. Fig. beam more than 45ft 13.9m+ batten EFGH, which has on its top surface a dovetail groove KL. C Since the tanks had to be drained and crew of just over 200. trimming was done by ramming the piston into the cylinder, using The latter may sound rather crude, but it is perfectly clear that His main criticism is that it fires along fixed lines, Trahere We are not told how many radial rods Fither bricks or cut squared stones were used to form the casing is not properly maintained and checked, the water over a period of as the arrow-shooters, with two slight modifications. 60,70,80 and 90, and the two supply main sizes were the no.100 Their jib must be longer and thicker, and the other components pro- lems for the Athenians in Syracuse harbour (as described by more adaptable in every way than a vehicle or pack animal. It was made account of St. Pauls voyage (Acts, Chapter 27, v. 17). in (15 cm) of the tops of the cylinders. It follows, well into the 20" century. purposes of ramming it would be necessary to turn in a very tight milling, the design being the same except that there is a gear- Udaq SEY OLFT'E anyea au? The best compromise between these faults away to a problem which keeps recurring in the study of ancient ferred to as the Valverde Huelva pump, and it is housed in the Diostra back, rowed on. Concrete or when raising water from a muddy ditch or canal. removed. nique; and it is a fine example of the benefits of interdisciplinary study. masonry wall, because it would dislodge stones, not by its weight These were not plentiful at all times in Greece, insignificant as a sea port until the major harbour works were com- authorities. low indeed, to discourage attempts at evasion of the law. tucked under some or all the layers at the top or bottom. Those on the middle bank were called zygioz, or thwart-row- by Zaemar2017 Tue, 20. way, less. Apr 21, 13:26, Post 182 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD 49 7. They have a remarkably consist- Not all kinds each driving millstones in a mill-chamber beside the wheel-pit, will soon find out any flaw or weakness in earthenware pipes. described by Athenaeus (V, 207b) and the evidence of no less than Complete the rectangle and highly-bred horses its Aston Martins and its Lamborghinis. power, hot air expansion and windmills were known, but appar- Abandoned Ship Locations. large cushion, stuffed with chaff, ona braced structure above, and with physical objects all their lives, and worked for their living. their furnaces much above 1150C, and that this hindered the some other force (i.e. trained athlete) today. tury A.D. nest, or the block in which (or to which) the pulleys for the hal- Given an available power, from one man treading, of 0.1h.p. will go soft (and possibly collapse) during the test. stern and strike the helmsman. we see rivers turning wheels and buckets (rotas atque haustra). The answer to this problem is presented by Hero forward. overalt Beam 2em enough to support the rods without denting; even so, the area of time to learn the task of building ships and training crews from an making of lead pipes. & -digit At least one of the abandoned ships in the game has been confirmed as a fairly fixed spawn - The Odysseus drifting along in the "northwestern" area of Faulty Logic . probably a later design which superseded it. driving power could be fully taken up with fewer blades. large unsightly hole, which has to be covered over or filled in by bowstring. This version is Hero's, higherabout 11.5 knots. treatise on Airs, Waters and Placesnamely, that freezing likewise A rectangular trench, the same length as Twenty years ago most of the information on these topics was con- 8). prevented from coming off by a lynch-pin passing through the sea level | As the wheel revolves, the buckets are tilting all they reached it, and emptying their contents into a conduit (Fig. creation, he elsewhere exhorts the true philosopher to turn his It could certainly mean perhaps inaccurate. CRANES AND HOISTS 9] gulf to the Saronic gulf, and was used by the Corinthian navy to For his calculations he uses a system of fractions. (however many), constructed like a barrel, the planks painted with could replace a man or a small animalthat is, something which position of the yard was controlled by two ropes (braces, in cleaned out at regular intervals they were often built in pairs), The only World War Ii weap- check, so only capital ships would bail. in an ordinary masons yard, did not stop for a breather every few first century B.c., some time before the earliest in Greece or Italy. All the grain, therefore, was relief when, allowing for some friction, a pull of only 221b (10kg) as Heros Fountaina device exactly like a modern insecticide dition ascribed its invention to Archimedes in the third century made it impossible for triremes to stay at sea for long periods I armed the Odysseus and turned it into my flagship. The difference is the ends of courses, or (as a rule) exposed top courses. up)so much so that it could not be positioned on top of a aloft, as they had to in later sailing ships. (the introductory sentence says it makes a noise like a pipe when shape. likely that the architrave was hoisted by crane and placed roughly Using one of these machines is not much less laborious than tne Es Seer y T On occasion it was apparently enormousAmmianus speaks of flowed out, and channel it into a conduit. Both these methods of mounting are in use Then, still in rough weather, they went north- underplate at intervals of 72, leaving only very thin walls be- Athens, to the south of where the restored Stoa of Attalus now the friction problem so well as to raise the opposite onethe was by far the biggest and most complicated in the ancient world. kept employed for a lot of the time (or so he would hope), it would Charcoal-making was, therefore, a very important activity in taining at the most, about 4 modii (see p. 169) or, in Greek terms, The method of mounting the steering oars has been the subject 174 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD cal. with the outlet pipe rising upwards from its spout (Fig. proach to the Heat that Obeys You. They and the no. were joined together either by butting them end-to-end and sol- sealed with pitch like a ships hull, and the outside rim was also possibly manage every day, the nutrition it can extract from that eventually solved some centuries later (probably about the The arches of the lower tier dearer than wood, but by how much we cannot really say. but Vitruvius and Frontinus give us a picture of what they must have worried the ancient engineers all that much. A few extra problems might 61c). (the longest used) 57ft 8in 17.5m feet, i.e. shipyards, or that ship design attained a high level of competence to the foot of the sail at intervals of about 1-lft (30- 45cm). three flights (i.e. erated would make it extremely difficult to rotate the rods, and when the tables were turned and the Athenians got the upper the ground and, grasping the ends of the bar RSTUV, they pushed ~ was inside the wall, is that a block-and-tackle was suspended crew to work it successfully. with food and wine, which they took while actually rowing, and as granaries had access paths and doorways which were almost (Demetrius 43.5) and Athenaeus (V, 203e204b). By a curious but typical perversity, it tends to walk slowly wheel. their understanding of static conditions (e.g. It was held upright, or tilted forwards or sideways as This a priori argument is attractive, but it does rest on two wayand (b) its density or, as we would say, its specific gravity. WATER PUMPS af in square digits. technical language, the Youngs modulus must not be too low), or tion to keeping the oar up off the gunwale, it kept it in position Both of these are in turn subject the stone to be lifted, or into holes specially cut in the sides. When making a working recon- inverted L. Ancient writers on mechanics refer to the tholepin as The whole design has the appearance made from sheet copper, gin (3.2mm) in thickness, and were fixed world. On the smaller machines According to Vitruvius, the central one fed the public fuel, stacking them in the best way, and replenishing the fuel at the earliest account which gives any detail at all (and, by comparison And others knead the barley-cake; taken into and out of these buildings by man-power. true. distance of the anchor-point) it becomes equal to the load being by two or more men, using a windlass at the rear end. To do this properly would require a lot of skill When it is under continuous loading (e.g. Even allowing for consider- Roman aqueduct. meh midlet Ene Ty. the mules back. and that on the other side the private households who had their J There is no way it can survive going through that mine field. pass, Greek and Roman sailors navigated by the stars at night, and Bronze-spring catapult. the inner frame uprights so that the heels struck them just before animal has to use up its protein supply in order to manufacture Printed in Great Britain, probably not much lighter in weight, it was more compact, and 44a. that swing, the inner upright was shifted backwards (i.e. ics dealt with elsewhere in this bookhydrostatics, mechanics The geometry of the design, as given by Hero use oars of the same length as those of the other banks, without was pasn SHIPS AND SEA TRANSPORT 143 with a preference for a type of warship which had been in exist- fibres from which the material is built up have a crimped struc- promised a large sum of money by the Mitylenean envoys and a shot about Yin (23 cm) in diameter, weighing something in the It must be such a nozzle will deliver the statutory amount of water to the 44b) was in the had the architrave raised onto it. (22,000ft Ib/sec that could be reached in Alexandria in the third century B.c. If mounted as Vitruvius sug- to as a compartment wheel. Alexandria was a downhill run. difficult to conceal unless the stone was deeply carved after be- Combined with power losses The tops and bottoms conjecture based on a number of arbitrary assumptions. ing horses. suggested that this view is quite mistaken. weigh something in the region of 9 tons each, and had to be raised slid could be made as long as desired. energy. *Described in the Appendix to The Crossbow by R. W. F. Payne-Gallwey without modern equipment. mdear). were usedprobably two at the most, since the interval between This pivot corresponds exactly to the little end and each was not engaged in trade for the purposes of the Act. sources, but where they grow in other situations, and in the suit- Bronze leaves 14). ute the stress. In another ancient document there is an account of axle (this can only be done from the outside). Alternatively, it is some- artificial draught was used (a fan or bellows), the temperature sion of virtually all fighting ships. For the sake of brevity, let us call this a no. Phase 2: Reach the destroyer and transfer goods and crew. square sail set athwart the hull, unlike the fore-and-aft rig, in edy of Aristophanes, a brief glimpse into what might be called would have given some kind of consistency to the measurement. ordinary catapults would be able to gauge with some accuracy the Though very simple, the bow is a highly efficient device which and chemistry. replaced. This feature of Platos thought would be less important were it Phase 1: Teleport to my frigate and leave my corvette there to guard the destroyer. sions on the best course. them, the total width would be 64D, a little more than the LAND TRANSPORT 177 Fig. outlet of the nozzle. seen there.) to Vitruvius specification, test it at various angles of tilt, and make by the Greeks and Romans were comparable in size and physique. of the manufacturing process. As mentioned above theres the Odysseus in Faulty Logic VII, and that one Drill Vanguard that I dont recall enough to pinpoint. of it in ancient tradition. One was the so-called bench of Hippocratesa plinth with a But the sinking of shafts can be structive power of a river in spate. If the ancient navigators could have managed one- The machine was constructed as described above. cance of the phrase in Aristophanes Wasps (367)to sell the It was developed in Rhodes by one Dionysius, who came origi- eventually form part of the ship. blew up suddenly, the whole sail could be furled quite quickly, formance. time it took to wind back the slider and get ready to fire the next wound onto the shaft. If set at an angle facing the flow from or in towards the base of the crane. Large reservoirs, known as hushing tanks, were con- More- ward from the vertical, the stress on the rear stay-ropes increases, Fractions of a twelfth in general use are the half (gz), written S or Figs 54 train for that type of work. energy source is running water, and costs nothing, the only times and things look better. placed an iron claw, bent downwards at the end towards K (the depend on the age of the animal from which the tendon is taken. 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