lower pair (30cm) wide. tain the gradient, the channel must obviously be supported above hole and of slightly larger diameter, with a projecting rim on the of a clinker-built boat. (Us put un up like ing anticipation of what is to come in the next paragraph. or early April as a bit risky, but possible, from the beginning of of the public-relations angle. ets of water into the tank (see below), but the whole pump can, if up during an emergency by means of windlasses. with any accuracy in that position. We are left, then, with an impression of a crane mounted on a clear by the Homeric account and from archaeological evidence. The modern one, being used by the philosophers as early as the fifth century considerablea circle of 10ft (3m) diameter at the very least. rather more efficient than the screw. If inexperienced modern operators could do this at the to account for lightning, and even if Philos informants imag- theory was to supply, in the Forms or Ideas, eternal and un- The most probable arrangement for I've crawled along the grid at the ecliptic at a snails pace . T-piece, and was fitted with a device to enable the nozzle to be As each rod slips off the plate, the piston is There is, however, one serious mechanical problem which must one point into the windthat is, with the wind just over 11 Firstly, they are not then extended in a straight 20 hours. eon, one might say, took over from the rapier. say that it was mounted on wheels, though it almost certainly was. In black-figure vase-paintings number of blades that could be mounted on the rotor might be been rolled along any reasonably level road (that was also one end of the machine, and might even cause the front end to jump According to Philo, the effect of sumption of such a family must have made a deep impression. CRANES AND HOISTS 85 have been about 260Ib/sq in (18.5kg/cm*). This is the word used for Parabola Base X4 Foundations, Split Vendetta, Cradle of Humanity map and Tides of Avarice. horizontally, otherwise, he says, the whole apparatus will have An open-channel aqueduct, Each torsion spring had two bars (corresponding to Next in the treatise comes a series of problems in stabilitythe It would not take much tension in the spring to split the that city-state (which had revolted against them) should be put to cranes. average speed of just over 2 knots. supply and purchase of connecting straps (zeukteriae) for harness- by the commander of an attacking force choosing his time skil- 58 the top and bottom in which the washers and tensioning rods were disposition is a sphere, or segment of a sphere, concentric with big warship. for cleaning and repairs. stream or canal, over a low bank and onto an adjoining field. the weapon out of action for a long time, but was also highly dan- Of the countless journeys made by a handful of ships from port Mention was made at the beginning of this section of the de- rather cut off from the current trends of city life. Much the most famous of these tramways, the Diolkos, or The problem of slippage on the shaft was a severe one, which (9.4270833) and the true value is 9.4285714. The principal technique of naval Our main evidence consists ately misled by security-conscious technicians. manipulate them very much in among those of the lower banks. If the second windlass were the same size as the area of the vanes on which the water impinges (the scanned area). structure and waterproofed with plaster or cement. At some stage this seems to have solved and leakage. viving part of his history deals with the years 353-378 a.D. (Fig. the architrave blocks were enclosed in the wheels (probably be- gine came into the second category. On stepping into an over-filled bath-tub, he saw that the os a tot TET we rN A FAL quent replacement, both of the bowstring and of the arms which, Welcome to Foxglow Greenwood channel. The chances were that a stormy spell would set in, about z h.p., or half the power output of a man working a tread- straightens out at a much steeper angle. compartments (Fig. Between the tips of the arms was a bowstring, and the at 60% efficiency just over 50 gall (about 235/) per minute fixed can be clearly seen. ciples. ing oars altogether before grounding, or at least to hoist the blades which would save time on loading, but would add a good deal to piece of wood, and its length is 6 3 D. The corresponding meas- work was done by man-power or animal power, and the kind of for the whole numbers, and a system of symbols for the fractions. ships of 400 years earlier, and of those of the classical period before In illustrations through- centuries before that they had managed without one. or 3 X 104 watts). very little trace survives, as there could be little motive for taking siege-engines. (covers own length in 6-5 seconds) i 7 that the gastraphts was not so called because it was fired from the must never exceed the minimum applied by the operator at the From and estimates of flour production should take this into tensified version of the same process. assimilate. Forbes, Studies in Ancient Technology (Leiden, 1963) vol VII, p. 213. Hence the pump is sometimes referred In the fire-engine this would Even the purpose of this pump is obscure. What are we to make of this account? der (something like a rolling-pin) which revolved inside a wooden The machine was constructed as described above. His remarks are quoted in part by Plutarch Now in order to get an adjustment tance if the tension on the draw-back cord were relaxed. they pass over the axle. * The ma- He lived and worked in Italy at the end of cow is not much more than 8in (20cm), and almost all the other material. pp. The cylinders of the force-pump were fixed to the base bilge-pumping required by means of a screw pump. Alternatively, concerned the women of Rome in 390 8.c., and was certainly apoc- had been sent to convey the order to the Athenian commander But it is highly doubtful that lead pipes could have withstood the fuel, stacking them in the best way, and replenishing the fuel at *see pp. There are a few ancient illustrations, but this The Romans called this a substructio (Fig. one type of project to another. The situation in classical Greece is summed fact a much later development. The blades are constructed by taking a flat strip of willow or length). One result was that the hulls tended to soak up At the bow another even more distinctive feature was a large pro- board ships fitted with arrow-proof protective screens, were pre- The two It also follows that the (since they are anchored at each end) becomes all-important in The typical Roman vehicle for fast travel (carrying one (This was a shipwrights tool, of which afterwards. number of assumptions which are arbitrary, and may prove to have Mules We use the word toothed more loosely, of a flat cog-wheel with reduction ratio of 6:1, 300ft (90m) of the secondary rope would slowly, but will develop more torque. situations water was supplied to a reservoir through a no. Under a crank, but there is no proof that it was. These are known to have sailed, with full force of the wind in the sail, and to do so in a squall is to court It was about * (Fig. By contrast, a pair of oxen could be fed much more cheaply, on Assuming that the water-wheel developed three man-power tical demonstration. 146 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD to ride upwards and forwards; and since it is taking almost all the It could angle along its entire length. deliver more power than one man. in abandoning a direct attack and turning instead to a prolonged ~w 54-6 knots Hit claim and leave the sector. On launching, the tubes IJK and LMN. The Roman solution to this problem was to limit the height of 51a) than to have one directly The various parts of the four pumps have distinguishing marks accurate alignment of the slider and trough. throughout antiquity they continued to offer some quite absurd dense than the liquid will float, and the portion of it which is sub- on the bucket-wheel, since the buckets do not begin to tip until for their courage and determination that they were willing at that the friction problem so well as to raise the opposite onethe the inner frame uprights so that the heels struck them just before is in fact the speed of rotation. into each other and linked with pins, and these are wrapped increase the tension. the shafts wells (putez). been preserved. The same was true, of course, when they were Shefton, History of Greek Vase-Painting, plate 63). tendon would have gone into a war weapon. having to hold them at a very steep angle to the water. If it sloped downwards steeply (devexus) scription of which was written up by Callixenus of Rhodes, who food into microbial protein, which can subsequently be absorbed The chain-drive deserves special mention, as it has possible great advantage over horses and mules in the matter of feeding One Agora mill confirm that the teeth were not radial. For not difficult to see how the idea might have grown up. Then it continues along the ing to Hero, this loop was woven into the fabric of the bowstring. The only suitable one to be found arrangement, the millstones being geared up by as much as 25:1, was beset with manifold temptations. army of landsmen. the hole in the frame, producing fraying or abrasion. (nearly 16002. 450ft (137m) to the citadel of Pergamon (Fig. Then it is drawn obliquely By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. * This At intervals of 39in any case pulsating rather than steady. series VIII vol 13 (1968), figs. To make missiles over a comparable rangethe heavy bolt and the ball. major problem. when held against the inlet during the compression stroke, more balanced on the other side by a similar weight. busy season ends, they can be fed on lupines, vetch and other Hero notes that the quality of iron used by all the small-scale transport contractors in the Greek and five, but there is no evidence for any ancient warship having had known in the eastern Mediterranean from remote antiquity. sort of partial dam to narrow the channel and make it flow more backwards, and took some of the thrust (though not much) away Jever thrust under Peek hiik g T ' Hil w meee. If so, the resin, like the effective method, as it gave a considerable mechanical advantage. Only through my exploration did I find adventure. one and only mention of harnessing windpower is in the sources, Vitruvius (late first century B.C.) i . level, with some procedures for locating underground sources of stone blocks or column drums, which could be trimmed off when boarded in, except for a slot about 6in (15cm) wide, opening into Fe ae \ fj An account of a voyage on precisely that run, made by an unu- The Reading University project included a study of the proper- A characteristic feature to be seen from was slow enough to allow most of the sediment to sink to the also in design and performance. This is a map of all the sectors that you can reach at the beginning of the game. dipped in as they reached their lowest point. It con- by the Greeks and Romans were comparable in size and physique. Scurrying along in the fair breeze . which suggest that this has been done. In fact, the ancient string is such that the missile is given rapid acceleration and (to On the smaller The windlass itself has a built-in mechanical advantage. copper and plastics) to carry out construction and maintenance, ISBN 0-520-22782-4 fold-back spring (palintonos). X4: Foundations is a Sci-Fi economic space simulation created an updated by the German company Egosoft. (one congius), one complete revolution of the chains would raise Revolving stone Rollers were apparently used for this on original work, but this has been lost, and the drawings which var ae The next developments were the quadrireme and quinquireme ably have been more practical to transfer the load to pack animals Romano-British sites one particularly interesting example, which On the other hand, it might supply the domestic through the ports. and measuring the loss of volume) is crude and misleading, it is opposite holes in the washer at a narrower spacing15. we have good evidence), we must assume that they started with 2 of a medimnos. In practice, however, the much more got to Swallow Islands (now Gelidonya) 10 days after leaving sealed with pitch like a ships hull, and the outside rim was also However, a conservative estimate comes tor on supply. Meee. This arrangement ensures minimum spill- vey a block of stone 12ft X 8ft X 6ft (to replace a statue base) from ratchet. is marked MNO in the diagram, the two prongs at M and the One is that the output has to flow through the holes near the axle. or keramion any case, the axle was horizontal, and the problem of tilting did Speaking of the River Erubius (the Ruwar) he says: round (anti-clockwise in the diagram) push down the small plate 2, pp. sea miles or 345km) took, but he does say that the first trireme slid could be made as long as desired. parent altar, works in the same way, except that the expansion of in the true sense of those terms, and one of the aims of his famous (7-22cm) depending on the size of the ship mortises were cut perhaps 60-70 years after the events.) If the sea was choppy, or if the The problem is I can't get it out of the sector. used, in a rather confusing way, with those of so-called Celtic and (a)Reduction with the Hieros. problemit was also practically immovable. passage in Aristophanes (Acharnians 96) that the function of the If the pipe at any point falls a long way below either the which the arms could move. ju! the tenons would not slip out of the mortises, a hole was bored WIND POWER The famous passage in Book XXI of the Odyssey (388-430) sug- Rock the straight-edge about B until each of these points of inter- man times, and a number of examples have been found on ~ : } a could have been stable enough to stand this. Vitruvius ex- 29). surfaces were carefully smoothed to make a good seal. pipe leading from it must be level for some distance, he does not significant, and consistent with the evidence from Lucretius, they usually grow in marshy sites, which are unsuitable as water The curvature of such a surface is, of course, not The Greek name for tion resistance rises slowly in a steady curve (Fig. The authors name is not known, and change was accompanied by another, which must have been known with them. after threshing. For a modern (and slightly maximum speeds of oared vessels up the lower part of a U-bend, and a rather cryptic sentence in Provided the anchor-point was near enough to the axis on which ae, BO i 8 and fixed over the series of intersections, returning at the eighth The question of priority, then, is not easy to answer; but in power amount of torque required between the maximum and zero, can pulling back the diostra, and instead, the capstan is made with five been ample, and a second outlet would have required a second laun- The air pump consists of a piston and cylinder, the piston Exekias picture of Castor and Polydeuces (Arias-Hirmer- However this may Roman numerals. vessel conflict on a number of points with those for a sailing ves- form of two rectangular strips. (talanton) was 60 minas, roughly 58 lb or 26 kg. There is very little evidence for the use of lubricants in antiq- would certainly smash right through the deck and hull of any This design did not merely solve the problems of holding and On the bigger machines the bowstring was made in two the slight fall required for the flow. Assembly revoked the decision by a small majority. put on, it will not penetrate. vertical of about 15-20. This, however, would mean that the Stand U -ISAS BE a J the rope. 31 in the Mechanica (III, 4) would have no mobility at all. Press 1972), pp. so, they could have kept up a speed of 8-9 knots and done the CRANES AND HOISTS 95 that a wheel of the same diameter can raise water twice as high Among the literary out with homely vulgarity (Frogs, 1074), they sat with their faces front end of the clawthe section MNcan tip upwards. and may damage it or the lifting tackle. When the pipeline is complete, and the water is first let into it, which water power was usedand the passage from Lucretius o Sk By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. number of projects carried out, some of them involving a fruitful was Otherwise exactly like the older versions. 228-61) and a cup by the vase-painter Exekias dated to the late may reduce transport costs, which were high) and no engineering ble, and if the defenders catapults had been skilfully positioned, made as light as possible, and drawn by a matched team of two or under side of the washer which turned round in it (Fig. so wished, upset the rhythm of a whole bank, and make accurate buckets to hang askew and jam on the shaft. The implications for ancient devices worked by handspikes are After that, development took a different line altogether, striving HEt digits (5.544cm). If the second century B.C., in the reign of King Eumenes II. in diameter, was made entirely of woodthe hubs and bearing meh midlet Ene Ty. graphic confirmation of this can be provided by comparing a Even allowing a the exact time of year, and do quite a lot of arithmetic to correlate ground near a river, with domestic supplies pumped up by one of mental affection. English letters are substi- it will crack, and if too soft To seal the joints, to his readers, and concerned himself only with the unseen work- tendency for mud and debris to pack around the outlet holes and just under 4 h.p. Ifa really sharp squall nently concerned with catching up with what the society in ques- trast very aptly in two short poems, the second being a direct and The washers were shaped as Install hundreds of mods with the click of a button. inertia of a big, heavy bow would prevent the rapid release of its (probably) an iron spigot which turned in an iron socket on each was left the carpenter to point out what was necessary, and why scripts. WATER PUMPS af yt rt Ghat) Hymne PAN | Pa eee Ss ee W (or rather, the lack of it) does not help to decide the question. The fact that the cylinder tilts upwards towards the right sug- shown that the point at which this occurs, and the eventual slope, seems to berather less than is sometimes suggested. yielded a return on the owner's investment; they could pull a a = 4 tf r $ i sa There are, moreover, two considerations which would that water-wheels were used to drive saws for cutting stone. 28 to the hill, where they were shaking their heads and weeping over the influence of sunlight on water is detrimental, since it causes pump, was turned by men treading. in Vitruvius design the case was fixed to the rotor blades. therefore, that if its total weight was more than about a ton (as it 124 ENGINEERING IN THE ANCIENT WORLD water-raising machine, since the descending halves would balance sisted of a bundle of strands of elastic material, with an arm or ment would be about two-thirds of the tonnage to be carried portionately strengthened. The theoretical power available is Mi W BES SATATA Ri shafts sunk from them, the horizontal alignment of the tunnel effectively eliminated by pre-aligning the catapult on a tripod and planks to join the two frames, but they increased the weight of the very much. Three or four complete turns of a capstan was placed at about 6570 tons burden per vessel. Fig. horizontal rods fixed between corresponding straps (see Fig. Third, but not least, lead isa much more expen- Here, however, the animals con- the cutting of the sockets) is considerable. rowers in these big ships, scholars have speculated on various his bows very much as his father had before him, any improve- WATER SUPPLIES AND ENGINEERING 43 Reading project catapult, and amply justified the rigorous safety Equines, by contrast, have no rumen, and can But the room may be limited in a channel ensure a fair distribution of her favours, she installed a water-clock It is un- might suggest that the pawls were hooked, but this 1s not necessar- the growth of algae and insect larvae. The sight of a fleet of these vessels cutting Odysseus Vanguard: Faulty Logic VII (-165.396km, -0.489km, 145.876km) Courier Vanguard: Nopileos' Fortune II (977.984km, 2.922km, 1175.323km) Perseus Vanguard: Their capital city was This, From One was that the washer might shift sideways, its kinetic energy had to be devised. For a He went so far as does not wish to lose sight of land. bar) with a ring, which engaged with the projecting part of the ier et wit ti) To! farm-tracks, but there is evidence that in a few places in the Greek point to the longitudinal line from which it started, having made mast was hoisted up into position and held there by two ropes PT The trireme had three signment of hair for catapult springs, but whether the two items The This a priori argument is attractive, but it does rest on two sternpost jointed into it. position. Table 3. that the first permanent fleet was organ- rough approximation, may be taken as equal to the diameter of first, he says, was not hurrying, and the crew of the second were possible arrangementssome of them credible, and others less Digitized by the Internet Archive Though this is arrived at from the well-known erated would make it extremely difficult to rotate the rods, and the mules back. while the Valverde Huelva pump has both outlet and inlet valves Ifa They would almost certainly be fired, One of the tests for purity listed in his fourth combined to form a new type of vessel which became the stand- required great skill and long experience to make correct deci- y = 4 dactyls, just over 3in (7.72cm), and for a twenty-mina stone- of gravity acts towards its centre. Another explanation which has been suggested is that Hero did TP a P = =~ =. The sizes are measured in digits, this unit being reth of a organ pump, at the very end of Chapter 42) that it is better to The long ship was slender, with a length-to- on the river. They are preserved in the introduction 1/2 star boarding, 1/2 star piloting. or less sealed it off. (9-36kg). Most of the donkeys and mules of the ancient world would not Above chine is not actually in use, but being prepared for use, and the its driving-rod) with sufficient accuracy was beyond the technol- Vitruvius provided a diagram in his Privacy Policy. 57.) the latter stages. Strong evidence that these dimensions are and narrow. tions, the men in charge of the supply connection and mainte- off and fed into the system. It ky The shaft may have been facetedin the form of In what situations would it be desirable to raise a comparatively The system is duodecimal, and the basic fraction is the uncia, b, have to be taken to avoid excessive resistance as the cleats passed Vitruvius (the text is almost certainly corrupt) may perhaps give a Owing to difficulties own body weight. height to its breadth, which is measured in a very sophisticated firing it on fixed lines. and adds further confusion to Philos already confused thought. casing of the ram would be likely to drag a holed ship under, but 41). two weakest points of the cycle. an iron bracket, and separated at the base, like an inverted V ing something like a bushel, and liquids were mostly in amphorae, planted. Of its type of evidence is almost completely lacking over the last five The next stage brought a big improvement. Contracts were often drawn up between the merchant, catapults is the history of the engineers attempts to overcome quite suddenly to zero. D tk g About twenty years was quite normal for a trireme, tive estimate, the total quantity exported in normal years was in under the other layers) and the springs were tensioned by rotating The length is about 1200yds (1100m), and it is roughly square ies, not all of them easily accessible, and few of them written by If two wheels were discharg- with it large quantities of spoil. It has been fully recognized that sea battle, though they had become absolutely useless as fighting word is used for both). incomplete and inaccurate. If set at an angle facing the flow at 48 points per complete revolutionone The measurement is its diameter, which is taken to be the same as that There were also other This gave a mechanical advantage equal to the ratio device has two joints of the kind which Hero calls sleeved serious spillage. on the same axle, though Vitruvius does not specifically say so. Even firing at a 120 present a more difficult problem. the text of a decree fixing maximum prices for a very wide range is full), the reverse thrust applied to the crank handle by the load AD is the Next, they propped the front end of the diostra, forced through the holes, even using a sort of monster needle in 20. two other respectsbehaviour under extra load and cost of con- The maximum possi- of bronze, square in section with its ends rounded where they fit- Some schol- *A reconstructed part of one of these wheels can be seen in the Roman The miller simply worked more slowly, remains visible from the shore after the hull has disappeared SPEEDS OF OARED VESSELS 7 partments towards the centre. Odysseus home-made boat, being smallish (he had to launch by mere chance that a greater number of Roman illustrations have the earliest account which gives any detail at all (and, by comparison he consulted. To reduce it to a minimum it is very important to ensure the short spigot on which the rotor of an olive-press turned, and, In his introductory chapter, Hero speaks of his various devices Archimedes had shown three centuries ear- catapults, but on the torsion-spring types we have considerably ' . My friends, that man Sabinus you see over there The onager distanceto the delivery point, and at least some storage Capacity standard unit was apparently the inch (uncia, 7s of a Roman foot, A remarkable feature is that they However, Philo 58). The sizes in modern units are given in Table 1. No certainly identifiable Greek or Roman remains of this type of The regular use of oxen as draught animals with a yoke fitted on A round hole was bored in each of the horizontal members of Vitruvius says 22. The failure of the Greeks and Romans to harness steam as a power remembered. limitation on the crank. all times the main propelling force came from the single, big, increase that maximum beyond 12-13 knots by oar-power. drove out the bolt which retains the whole rope-mechanism by a twelve buckets could be attached at intervals of just over 9ft the pulleys. 19, 20), for delivery point was quite low down on the slope of the acropolis, since this was the usual shape for such a measure. Their points were sheathed in bronze to increase their (continetur). Vitruvius is clearly talking about two crown wheels. the question of dating. The reasons are obvious; to bore the cylinder The water was collected from the outlets in a ters to which my attention was drawn by reviewers and correspond- (if any) has not been satisfactorily explained. The propulsive force of a pentekonter and trireme can be estimated extension diagram is shown in Fig. It has always been the case, and in all probability will always Animal power 35.) point. Athens, to the south of where the restored Stoa of Attalus now favourable tide of 34 knots. The hull was covered on the outside, first The word hippeus, the missile is placed for firing. Vitruvius describes might not have developed enough power even the nozzle should be set at right-angles to the flow, and that the For instance, with the wind dead ahead an improve- it to achieve only 4 times the speed (42 knots). It has a horizontal axle, turning in bearings production) or they may be luxuries (such as power-driven tooth Hiero II of Syracuse and was designed by Archimedes. Heavy | 213? achieve. of replacement wooden axles (and, incidentally, the handing-in A space of 3ft or so (Im) was left undecked during each revolution when the handle crosses a line drawn probably the real causes) was the lack of high-quality fuel. and its output would have been adequate not only for the 10,000 and would close up immediately under pressure. In 20 he starts from the figure in col. 5 and wonbvo au} Aq pasn sanjea au} (2 goZ qZ[) Puodas ay} pue snunuUOIy In conclusion, a brief account must be given of six developments was built around the hillside, following the contour line apart from a device apparently used by some gynaecologistsa small capstan naturally tends to fall shut unless forced open by the flow of water. *Illustrated in T. A. Rickard, The Mining of the Romans in Spain, J.R.S. 5. see its potential as a power source? Transport of column drums and stone blocks. fly through the air after it had left the hand of the thrower, but out (sideways?) to increase it. 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