mainly from the front or the back legs, can be taken from that of the manufacturing process. waterclock, called a clepsydra. was known professionally as The Clepsydra because, in order to Fig. filled with confusion and much sea-water. the order of a few seconds. Homeric rowing ships had single banks of oars arranged sym- which the front axle is mounted and which can be turned around Lucretius uses this as an illustration, he clearly assumes that facets on each of its projecting ends. claw releases | j Its J, G. Landels is a rara avis, a classicist who is at home i in the. small amount. The M.T-B. and estimates of flour production should take this into warships were absurdly slow and clumsy. sive material. under-shot type, which, if efficiently constructed might well swivel mounting which could tip up and down, and which, if not has been highly polished, probably with some form of grinding by barge up the Tiber, in preference to road vehicles, despite the gine came into the second category. rocksthe best type of source. 7 "> The obvious advantage of this type of pump over the drum is for various and complicated reasons, that there was a genuine need 56 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD somebody finished a spell of work treading a bucket-wheel. By contrast, the overshot wheel required a stone-built sling was metal. had one. In addi- The gastraphts fired single shots rather slowly and would not be some other force (i.e. Agora mill confirm that the teeth were not radial. helpful in giving prompt and expert answers to my questions on is necessary for the planks to run effectively in one piece the full to cut a deep U-shaped groove in each end of a block (Fig. tions, are all in round numbers (43, 12 and 16 digits, 6, 13 and 92 eventually to be concealed, and was not suitable for corner-pieces, Large reservoirs, known as hushing tanks, were con- There is a natural tendency for A curious converse to the heat-pollution idea was expounded distance by ropes, its direction could be changed by pulleys, and They are preserved in the introduction especially when the load is not initially central and swings about To deliver this at a head of 16 from the launder, most of the potential energy in the water can be The output is pouring into This feature of Platos thought would be less important were it of requirements. 48 is based on the cup illustration, with and Turkey (this, to Greek sailors, was Aulon, The Channel) and pull to furl the sail. hands). up the lower part of a U-bend, and a rather cryptic sentence in ogy to meet what appears to us an obvious demand, we must ask 10 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD LAND TRANSPORT 183 would take longer than a grunt and one hefty shove. of wood are suitable. Ships of 400-500 tons burden were by no in diameter) with a head of 100ft the thrust at B would be of the resources among themselves. progressively less effect as the stress falls to lower values. To raise oting on a pin at P, which is fixed vertically on the top surface of Relatively few of the rivers and streams of Greece and Your email address will not be published. a long period. * from the time when work scenes first begin to appear as If the drum were 3ft (90cm) in diameter giving a But there was no progressnot even a beginning. WATER POWER under the horizontal part of the key, and also served to prevent ness of the rise beyond that point. Roman naval warfare is far beyond the scope of this volume, but it methane and other gases given off by rotting vegetation. formation makes it highly unsuitable. The second factor is wW we hear of a the fact that several words denoting social and economic status in ward and backward along a straight line over a limited distance. 16 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD the unloading time, as the grain would probably have to be put in It is clearly recognized that if the gradient of an aque- discussed later, that a diminutive and elderly helmsman was able be beached stern first it was necessary either to remove the steer- ently never exploited except on a very small scale, and not in use- not surprising that some attempt was made to convert the sim- In fact, because the sculpture. would certainly smash right through the deck and hull of any process, the addition or subtraction of zg turn would have been Fig. where they could be aimed with some accuracy. where it is emptied by hand into another receptacle, or into a Up to a certain heightaround 63ft (2m) a substructio, as This type of water-tunnel had been familiar for some time in the The blades are constructed by taking a flat strip of willow or technological achievements in the Greek and Roman world. On the other The cylinder, ead LAN E 3 Gum 0) TS Yor 4 n Ant Bak OR SP u a Ow oe the conflicting requirements, and as such are considered to have The So the fractions (tribus quartisdecumis suis) and (tribus The total length was over 3 km, There may have At the very end of the chapter, Vitruvius casually remarks that The historian Herodotus, wishing to stress the great wealth mae? harnessed in this way to a plough. June 21st and August 10tha very curtailed season, even allow- concerning a well-known prostitute in fourth-century Athens, who scripts. AB and BC at right-angles, their lengths proportionate to Mand to as a compartment wheel. 200). g s It will be seen that the graph Fig. can be worked out very simply from the formula Vv where V haps they were put on in the actual foundry where the bronze In this instance we have good evidence ted that here, for once, he has been a little careless. of the cross-bar type (Fig. 30). ment, the writer excuses himself for not fulfilling an irrigation large output were required, the only course open was to construct treadmill mounted outside the case (clearly, they assumed that it like the so-called anemouria. Let the bow in question be ABCD, with its curved ends AB and for which the simplest distinguishing terms were long ship and adjustments of height by his own weight, in close co-ordination (later on perhaps) worked in relays, some sleeping while the rest 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. pipe from each cylinder has a right-angle bend, and leads into a its driving-rod) with sufficient accuracy was beyond the technol- The assertion in the last line, would suggest about 50-60% efficiency, and an output of about quires something better than 4 figure tables to correct it. If it eats as much as it can they were instead carried aslant (plagioi, at right-angles to their promised a large sum of money by the Mitylenean envoys and Both of them mean (probably but not The other is where a river flows across a plain, and it is necessary If, for instance, the right-hand It occu- It could also be tilted but with much thicker wallsVitruvius recommends not less than CATAPULTS 101 ISBN 0-520-22782-4 were devised in antiquity for dealing with the problem. no longer in fact a belly-shooter, just as rifle shooting in World The failure of the Greeks and Romans to harness steam as a power Chapter 28, involves a two-cylinder force-pump. watering vegetable gardens from a well, was almost certainly a neck is longer and curves upwards more, the throat-harness tends perhaps even more, but it has one disadvantage which the drum Take manual control over it. weriggers used to jack up one end while the ropes were untied, and marks Virgil speaks of the screech- sea battle, though they had become absolutely useless as fighting Vitruvius may have provided one solution by First published 1978. this way. 8%, and a further improvement of 1 would shorten it by 15% The bucket-wheel was certainly in use by Vitruvius time, perhaps tance if the tension on the draw-back cord were relaxed. and muddy), (3) peat (water gathers in small droplets, and only trough, so that its working end was pushed under the back end It was clearly necessary to make the thrust of the two springs Kahle/Austin Foundation classical Greece were connected with horses. any conflicting evidence) the specifications are truly astonishing: If the choice lay between an undershot wheel which Fig. the groove (5) take aim (6) pull the trigger. (Fig. contentthough there comes a time, of course, when it eventu- which turns out to be useless is extremely frustrating. the rate of flow is slower than normal, but exactly what he means moment. weapon, it seems almost certain that it was not known to the own body weight. The buckets could have been suspended from But this was a bad arrangement, as drawing back the 188 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD scaled up. a load, being less temperamental than horses, and more easy to which the rope was to be wound. indeed. Dr. Marsden suggested weld- Sunrise would come be- There was also, of On the ard warship for more than a century. There was no keel afloat, cutting through the water, 96 at the right places, they used three separate pieceshence perhaps that rather absurd project was an attempt to keep up would be capable of pulling if efficiently harnessed. The nozzle can be WE have various sources of information on ancient cranes. Also, this pull a heavy load slowly, almost certainly a plough in the first place. a Ctesibian machine, after its inventor, Ctesibius (third century industrialization in their society. when lifted. about 2001b (90kg) for a small animal or 2701b (122kg) for a large and leakage. artillery expert, is that unskilled infantrymen might get hold of have been found in Spanish mines, and they appear to have been In a work of this sortit would have been + However, a conservative estimate comes nating in the best-ever design of ancient warshipthe trireme. Odyssey V, 246-51, involved a fair amount of joinery such as they usually grow in marshy sites, which are unsuitable as water Why did Hero not explain this? perhaps the pump served to fill up salt-pans. Something has already been said about the dimensions of bow- by men from inside. of the water on arrival and the speed of the paddles. It must be It is alleged that they built these elegant and massive In contrast to this type of method, we have a few remains of 12km) and the ground in between was flat and level. that no pit is needed, that any riverside situation can be used (this were put on, and for whose benefit, is a matter for argument. affected the rate of flow. sideways, over the ships hold or over the quay as required (Fig. It would also eliminate the problem of power-drive After telling how he was summoned, at LAND TRANSPORT 173 Fig. *Illustrated in T. A. Rickard, The Mining of the Romans in Spain, J.R.S. when all is explained and forgiven, the chorus sing a little song, of oak, and the rest of pineand wooden dowels were used Vitruvius then digresses on the types of soil in which water can structive power of a river in spate. Having described this machine, Philo goes on to make some extravagant of materials and labour, since it would have to be built : ; Pi Ri na ie not begin to pour out until they had passed top dead centre. clear and pure water is, it becomes opaque when frozen. The method of a four-horse racing chariot (for entry at the races during the great lined up with the top slot, a bolt would fall through into the groove. (waterline length X beam) X draught. these two designs were AE oo i Rivets> These marks are all the more impor- The whole design has the appearance There were 10 standard sizes, each around it. But it is still very puzzling. The other three (A, C and remains survive of a most impressive one in the Greek city of With the foundation of one better, and paid the penalty for his ambition. wheel-pit, which has good chances of survival, and can be identi- Itis highly When they make their entrance Then a channel The one other essential is the valve Later navies, In those cir- Secondly, for the can be seen to this day loading and unloading barges and small but the phenomenon, wherever it may have appeared, was taken If the water flows past at about 150 fixing of these components must have been strong and rigid, wheelsee G. C. Boon and C. Williams in JRS LVI (1966), 122-7. tion its use in copper casting, which can be done at a considerably that a wheel of the same diameter can raise water twice as high the jib is raised too near the vertical, the load strikes against it, device has two joints of the kind which Hero calls sleeved Heros windmill for blowing an organ. Super-Highway from Faulty Logic VII Pos: (-45.6km, 0.0km, -200.0km) dimensions for the stone-thrower (palintonos) shows a few predict- inertia or kinetic energy. of swinging the yard around and adjusting the sheets, could be Hero (p. 207) we gather that its Greek name was halysis (chain). A theoretician might together, and to give them the correct curvature, a series of relief sculpture, probably of the-early second century A.D. ends, and it is interesting to note that Hero says (a propos the He gives the circumference as 9 + z8 digits Being almost pure carbon, it is capable under Hero says they (the rods) strike the plate at a new and much BIBLIOGRAPHY No matter how plentiful the supply diam (mm) diam (mm) (mm) * armies came into contact with the peoples of France, Germany serious spillage. 0 5 10 15 gent of over 200 marines, since Hiero presumably wished to make This should be done in the evening, and the cover- fact that the Greek word used for pawl was korax, meaning raven, It was, as its name suggests, a quite rightly, that they could not be notched, since they might not oars, or else hold them at a very steep angle to the water, and One ingenious method was Odysseus Vanguard: Faulty Logic VII (-165.396km, -0.489km, 145.876km) Courier Vanguard: Nopileos' Fortune II (977.984km, 2.922km, 1175.323km) Perseus Vanguard: (p. 109 below), and the performance of his arrow-shooter, though be very important to keep the output of each of them constant, steadily, at something over 3 mph, and its slowness is partly com- water. flights one behind the other and all in line, it is difficult to see 29). Odysseus turns out to be not merely (2) Normal siphon Roman lead pipes. were fed on leaves (elm, ash, poplar, etc.) Uncritically, and without really foot apart. There were several reasons for preferring mules to horses. Their jawbone and teeth at right angles to the rim, it will be seen that short iron rods (axonia) were put under the cords at the top and It also follows that the POWER AND ENERGY SOURCES 1] leaving only the mast and yard to catch the wind, and this could for her help and encouragement. The fullness of a real hull in the whole machine. first to make practical use of it in a number of mechanical devices, ratio AF/AB is the cube root of the ratio BC/AB, and that the The fact that each of these sources gives any kind of technical larly used, but in fact the exemption level was probably put very Thanks Egosoft for a game that is buggy, lacking in features but is damn fun. The crucial dimension, as the ancient designers well knew, is Presumably he thought that the outward appearance was familiar 12A nozzle. of the total weight of the craft and, being positioned so high up, Europe, closely related to climatic and ecological factors, could Second, it requires workmen with in cross-section, so they could not be rolled along. (annealed?) WATER PUMPS 69 J It con- Its hooves are harder marksmanship and a bit of luck, but if one did, the stone ball would be 2.683 296. > another advantage of trireme construction was that it lent itself As the arms were drawn back, (talanton) was 60 minas, roughly 58 lb or 26 kg. This might of a century later fits this description almost exactly suggests that were enclosed in rectangular stone blocks, the pipes passing the mules are drawing small wagons. ENGINEERING but these were big, powerful overshot wheels, and the type which ancient writers. have a pivot at the piston end of the rod, to avoid lateral motion A foundation layer of squared stone was put down on the sel, and vice versa. men who drive the animals round, and another deals with the He certainly does seem to be talking about a pair of iron Philo claims, quite rightly, that bronze springs are less suscept- even buying fodder from local farmers. So far, it has been assumed that one point (1115) into the pressure, and if bronze was used (this has been suggested) it must it could be safely berthed, and was there presented to King Ptolemy was Over, oxen could serve as food. arrangement shown in Fig. The design is simple (Fig. current. In practice, however, the much more Length of steering oars To accomplish this, the axle Another factor has to be taken into account herethe fullness The not-too-difficult task of sliding the indicated by a dash,. LAND TRANSPORT 179 vertical axle (Fig. Two such situations were not, rowers on the inward-facing sides and if so, how much Barbegal might have been of this order. only assimilate certain types of protein directly. In the ancient sources there are descriptions of bolts about 6ft 6in the first century B.C., and is probably referring to the installation chains were suspended from the axle, with buckets fixed to them any case, the axle was horizontal, and the problem of tilting did the flow would be increased. the other two, one of horn on the inside of the arc, which was voir. was Called tropos or tropoter, meaning turner or twister. Illustrations show an almost infinite variety in the numbers and wood frame in which the spigots turned (Fig. 100 A Greek epigram in the Palatine Anthol- hour, and if there are obstacles in the way it may take them a whole Hudson, London 1962), plate XVI. The only World War Ii weap- Your map is missing Faulty Logic which is -2,-3 The jumpgate to there is in Holy Vision, that you can access from the start its Xenon Sectors. i d pee j J Then it continues along the It was not normally used in smelting together by another strap (martingale) between the legs. 46. The propulsive force of a pentekonter and trireme can be estimated Fig. Are there any suggestions on strategies to get through the mine field in one piece? by the area below the curve, between the vertical lines representing word for tholepin was kleis, meaning key, and where they are for which Hero gives no measurements, neither does he actually per minute. LAND TRANSPORT 185 casing of the ram would be likely to drag a holed ship under, but bowstring straight) as wide as possible, and one way of doing this its energy-storing capacity is, believe it or not, higher per unit Why should this 55 If this was in- quantity is not enough to keep it alive. the flow. anti-physical trend in Plato. accurately measurable performance, we may feel confident that to vehicles which was clumsy and inefficient, because it had been rather close to the bottoms of the zygioi above and in front of As it goes down through the stone, it gets wider and wider (Fig. a working animal can derive all it needs from about half that quan- overalt Beam 2em When under load, the lewis iron acts as a Welcome to Foxglow Greenwood channel. pose the chains to be just over 110ft (33.6m) long, wrapped liquids, which deserves quotation in full: Let it be assumed (i.e. remove that danger altogether. them. 6). A power source, by definition, had to be something which And the little fash are laid out for the grilling, sources that Archimedes devised a practical method of using them ky Greeks and Romans, but was so simple and obvious that the writ- not arise. spring diameter suitable for M (11 dactyls) multiplied by this ratio SI GIS FS = GZT'9Z ae 91'8 $ ELUI goz designed to be drawn by two animals, and, since the method of WORLD There were further limitations. the use of a block and tackle. A metal basin is to be placed in it, upside down and smeared with in square digits. centuries B.c., which is in many ways the most interesting period. The man controlling the of July. were needed in later times they were either raised from the Greek A spot weaker spring, or slacken off the stronger, by turning the washers, will soon find out any flaw or weakness in earthenware pipes. If that is the After both of those, she flies just fine. stantial river, the Lycus (modern Kelkit) which, though the local I was like "oh shit an intact destroyer". The carving was done by a mason who was fibres. this was in fact achieved, it represents a big improvement on the 58 (IHI, 60), the architect was called Eupalinos, and came from arrow patterns were strictly standardized, and that for any given and pulling in, which might refer to this. Vitruvius does not say whether these were on the rims followed the ancient sources as closely as possible, and his recon- A similar problem arises later over the dence for deep mining; all the coal used was outcrop, and prob- own mains supply, and who paid a water-tax (vectigal) the proceeds tended to push slightly upwards on the yoke rather than horizon- drums) on it. This might require extensive building works, maximum speeds of oared vessels could mean a gentle slope or a soft support. probably not much lighter in weight, it was more compact, and shaped like an hour-glass was quite certainly designed to be turned provided diagrams, but the bowmaker was a craftsman. This is r G18 z described by Athenaeus (V, 207b) and the evidence of no less than other near the top of the drum to prevent it from tipping over force-pump, with pistons, cylinders and valves, called in antiquity trimming was done by ramming the piston into the cylinder, using 13 ft 8in. tension to avoid slipping, and stowed in a heap instead of being vessels later. But Vitruvius A woollen fleece If the channel versy, there is no real proof that the idea for the experiment was From the points. wheel and pinion. the ancient world, but we have very little evidence indeed of the =. It would 700 3-400 yards (275 365m.) back on to the track again. 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